Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!ge-mc3i!sterritt From: sterritt@ge-mc3i.UUCP (Chris Sterritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Placement of external drive Message-ID: <330@ge-mc3i.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 16:20:21 EDT Article-I.D.: ge-mc3i.330 Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:20:21 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 00:44:30 EDT References: <6743@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sterritt@ge-mc3i.UUCP (Chris Sterritt) Organization: General Electric Astro Space Lines: 23 Keywords: Left or Right In article <6743@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes: >I just got one of Apple's new external drives, the so-called Apple 3.5 >Drive. [...] >Chapter 2, "Setting >Up and Using Your Drive With a Macintosh" shows me correct drive placement in >figure 2-2. >It tells me that it is okay the put the drive on the right hand side of the Mac >and it also tells me that it's okay to put the drive on it's side. >It also tells me that it's okay to put it on the left side of the Mac. > >Hey, wait a minute! Last I knew, this was supposed to screw up disks. Did For whatever it's worth, I've had my external, 400k disk on the left hand side of my mac since july 1984, with NO problems. Ever. Really! An early posting I read about this indicated that the person having troubles was putting the drive in a bookshelf (or something) that brought the drive up off of his desk, and he had troubles. Mine has always been on the desk next to the mac, and I've always had an old 3" binder that angles my mac up towards me (instead of staring at my chest :-), so this may be why I've never had any problems. Now, of course, after buying a Jasmine 20Meg drive, I've put the Jasmine on the right hand side, and the 400k disk on top of it. No problems in the past hour... --chris sterritt