Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!orion.cf.uci.edu!ucsd!ucsbcsl!amadeus!grosen From: grosen@amadeus.ucsb.edu (Mark D. Grosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: A new angle for my ST-225 Message-ID: <1021@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 5 Dec 88 03:37:22 GMT References:<427@mccc.UUCP> <835@novavax.UUCP> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Reply-To: grosen@amadeus.UUCP (Mark D. Grosen) Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 20 [Putting HD's on their sides] There is no problem in using a HD standing on its side. The key thing is to format your disk in the orientation it is going to be used in. From the original posting, it sounds like the user had been using his disk in horiz. orient., and then switched to vertical. Not a good idea, unless you re-format. Witness all the Sun machines with shoeboxes in vertical orientation. I have been using my PC with vertical orientation for over 15 months without a problem. Mark Mark D. Grosen ARPA: grosen@amadeus.ucsb.edu Signal Processing Lab / Communications Research Lab ECE Dept. University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106