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In article <28AUG199219370544@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) writes:

>I posted a similar query about four months ago when our secretary got the  
>SECOND NeXT in our group.  The responses were, I judged, mixed, but enough
>people said things about the drive bearings going south that I/we came to
>a better physical arrangement in which the slab could stay flat.

I highly doubt your bearings will go bad by turning a drive on its
side.  We have quite a few machines that I administer that can only
have drives mounted on their sides.  We've not had a single incident
of bearings going bad (~15GB total disk space).  Some of these
machines include DEC VAXen, SGI Crimson, Sun SPARCServer, etc. etc.

I've always heard though, that the disk should be formatted in the
orientation that it will resting. (Though, this could just be
folklore). 

Also I'd be more worried about air flow though the slab if you turned
it on it side.  Anyone know if the slab will still be properly cooled?

Todd
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