[ale] mounting drives vertically

[Rick Huebner]

Way back in the day, I ran into a problem with drives that were mounted for
a couple of years on their side, then moved to normal flat mounting.
Someone gave some explaination of bearings and blah blah blah.  Maybe it was
coincidental, but my two cents worth.

Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Long
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:17 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] mounting drives vertically


I have always heard that sideways in not a problem but upside-down is.

I have several systems that run sideways and all the SCSI drives in the
severs I use are sideways.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Freeman" <josh at catea.org>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] mounting drives vertically


> I 've never noticed any problems. One of my cases by default mounts 
> the drive sideways. Theoretically I would imagine that gravity could 
> cause some deflection of the seek head, but the magnets in a drive are 
> so strong that I would expect that the magnetic force would override 
> the gravitational force.
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:17, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Has anyone had any problems with drives mounted vertically, rather 
> > than horizontally?  I have a friend who's gateway box is on it's 3rd 
> > hd in about two years.  It's a tower type box, but I've noted that 
> > the drive is mounted vertically.
> >
> > I've done some research on this and seems like most opinions are 
> > that it should not cause any problems.
> >
> > Anyone else have similar experiences?
> --
> Josh Freeman
> Technical Manager
> Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
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