Re: Placing NeXTstation Slab on its Side

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From: Chris Lamb
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:11

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tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green) writes:

>...  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.

Yeah, we turned our Vax and our Sun SPARCserver 690MP on their sides, and
haven't had any problems yet.  (With the raised floor there wasn't much
ceiling clearance in our computer room, so those big cabinets are now
horizontal.  Makes for easier access to the air filters too.)

-- Chris

(Major :-)'s here in case you hadn't guessed! :-)

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From: chris@tessi.com (Chris Lamb)
Subject: Re: Placing NeXTstation Slab on its Side
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Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
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