[ale] mounting drives vertically

[Steve Nicholas]

Hello,
I have Sun A1000, A5200, and T3 arrays that mount their drives vertically
and they do not have specific problems ( the first two groups are between
2 - 4 years old).  Have not tried on upside down though.

Steve

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Steve Long wrote:

> 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.
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> ----- 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
>
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> > 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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