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- From: nik@daimi.aau.dk (Frank Nikolajsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Putting CDROM/HD sideways?
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 12:39:04 GMT
- Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
- Message-ID: <4gkch8$ejr@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk>
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- Thus spake shin@asiaonline.net (Chriz Shin):
-
- >Is it bad if I put my harddrives and CD ROM drives and floppy drives
- >sideways?
-
- No, I've done this for years, my A2000 is trying to imitate a little tower
- case on the floor. Seriously: All modern HD's doesn't care how they are mounted
- as long as they are firmly mounted, rubber bands not allowed :-). I've just
- installed an IBM HD and therefore studied the manual very closely, it says:
- "Mounting position: Any". I've also been running my older Quantum drives
- upside down, up and sideways with no problems.
- CD-ROM drives are another matter. If they aren't explicitly equipped with
- means to hold the CD when in an upright position, don't try it. My internal
- Toshiba XM5301B has some small tabs in the drawer that can hold the CD while
- opening and closing the drawer and the manual explains what and how to do if
- the drive is sideways. You will have to check each drive type individually.
- Ordinary floppy disk drives doesn't care how they are mounted. A friend of
- mine used to have his original external A1000 disk drive mounted with the
- opening facing down!? when using it in a very elaborate automatic PD disk
- copying machine. It changed and sorted the disks automatically with an
- unmodified drive, you have to see it in operation to believe it. Well, that's
- another story...
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Frank.
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- | Frank Nikolajsen, Aarhus University, Denmark. |
- | Computer Science Department. E-mail: nik@daimi.aau.dk |
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