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- From: tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green)
- Subject: Re: Placing NeXTstation Slab on its Side
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- References: <1992Aug28.185850.27965@athena.mit.edu> <28AUG199219370544@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:58:14 GMT
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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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