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Article #24114Re: Can the MacII be used sideways
From: Dave Platt
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1988 05:35
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1988 05:35
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A caution re turning the Mac II on its side: it's possible that some hard
disks may have track-alignment problems if you format them while they're
positioned horizontally and then operate them while positioned vertically...
apparently changing the relative-direction-of-gravity can cause the heads or
head-positioning mechanism to drift a bit out of alignment. I don't know if
this applies to any of the hard disks that are being used in Mac IIs these
days; I do remember that the installation instructions that came with Sun 70-
and 140-meg shoebox disks recommended that the drives be reformatted if they
were switched from a horizontal operating position to a vertical position, or
vice versa.
So... it may not be necessary to dump/reformat/restore, but then again it may
be... and I don't imagine it'd hurt to do so, just in case. Just be _sure_
you have a clean backup before you reformat!
--
Dave Platt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!coherent!dplatt From: dplatt@coherent.uucp (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Can the MacII be used sideways Message-ID: <84@coherent.uucp> Date: 20 Jan 88 05:35:57 GMT References: <666@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Reply-To: dplatt@saab.UUCP (Dave Platt) Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 20