Subject: Re: Small, cheap systems...
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
From: Torsten Sadowski <moehl@akaflieg.extern.tu-berlin.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/07/2001 13:00:28 
Hi,
I had never any problems using (3.5") Harddisks on edge or flat or
(incidentally) on small edge. Modern Harddisks can't be low level
formatted at all and older (less than 500 mb) IDE drives can be destroyed 
through a low level format

-Torsten