30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
5:18 a.m.
Hi,
John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> said:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My almost equally venerable AT was used horizontally in work but when I
acquired it and took it home I ran it vertically under the desk with no
problems. Still works fine, but now horizontally again.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
--- "Feldman, Robert"
<Robert_Feldman(a)jdedwards.com> wrote:
My venerable IBM XT spent it's long life standing on it's side next to
my desk. In the fulness of time, I upgraded, and it was purchased by a
friend. He came over, we put it through some confidence tests, and he
took it home. And called me a half-hour later, because it wouldn't boot
at all, giving a fatal HD fault. Folklore for PC's was that if you recorded
data on a hard drive with the
platters horizontal, remounting it vertically could cause read errors.
Any truth to this?
Anyone have any personal experiences with oddly-mounted drives?