re lciii problems in article apr leland stanford edu ravi konchigeri mongoose leland stanford edu writes finally got my computer fixed and i d like to sum up about hard drive companies the original meg drive that was bad bad sector or something was an ibm the new one is a quantum is the lciii supposed to be shipped with ibms is there a quality difference apparently second about hard drive position i ve put the lciii on its side and the new hd has had no problems at all i ve even switched back and forth between horizontal and vertical and there are no problems as far as i m concerned i don t believe hd position is important for drives up to meg in any computer don t know about cd rom though just like everything else in life the right lane ends in half a mile ravi konchigeri mongoose leland stanford edu ravi its not a good idea to have a horizontally formatted hard disk in a vertical position if the drive is formatted in a horizontal position it can not completely compensate for the gravitational pull in a vertical position i m not saying that your hard disk will fail tomorrow or months from now but why take that chance if you want more detailed info on the problem please mail me at sunnyt dna bchs uh edu sunny
