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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!chris
- From: chris@tessi.com (Chris Lamb)
- Subject: Re: Placing NeXTstation Slab on its Side
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.181120.15547@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Aug28.185850.27965@athena.mit.edu> <28AUG199219370544@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> <Btr2x3.EtE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:11:20 GMT
- Lines: 16
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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! :-)
-