[ale] mounting drives vertically

[Steve Long]

I have always heard that sideways in not a problem but upside-down is.

I have several systems that run sideways and all the SCSI drives in the
severs I use are sideways.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Freeman" <josh at catea.org>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] mounting drives vertically


> I 've never noticed any problems. One of my cases by default mounts the
> drive sideways. Theoretically I would imagine that gravity could cause
> some deflection of the seek head, but the magnets in a drive are so
> strong that I would expect that the magnetic force would override the
> gravitational force.
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:17, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Has anyone had any problems with drives mounted vertically, rather than
> > horizontally?  I have a friend who's gateway box is on it's 3rd hd in
> > about two years.  It's a tower type box, but I've noted that the drive
> > is mounted vertically.
> >
> > I've done some research on this and seems like most opinions are that it
> > should not cause any problems.
> >
> > Anyone else have similar experiences?
> -- 
> Josh Freeman
> Technical Manager
> Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
>
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