SCreaming RD54 aka Maxtor 2190

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Thu Jan 18 13:06:11 2001

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William Fulmor wrote:
>
> > I've had very good luck shutting up XT2190's and RD54's simply by
> > turning them upside-down. In my particular set up (old pee cee cases)
> > they also run _much_ cooler. That might present mounting and cabling
> > complications in your situation. YMMV.
>
> I can't say why (this is ignorant input :) but for some reason you're not
> supposed to run hard drives upside down. I'm sure some genius will pipe
> in now ;0)

Well... I don't know about the "genius" part, but with a lead in like that
I could not resist...

Back in the Shugart days, (and no, I did *not* misspell "Seagate") when I
asked about that one time I was told that the spindle bearings were not
'stressed' properly for operation with the drive upside-down.

Now, if that was supposed to mean that the spindle might shift, or the
whole thing would fall out into the sealed enclosure was never really
explained. But what would you expect back then? (...when a *big* drive
was 5Mb and cost $3K) <G>

-jim
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