[rescue] OT: Exabyte tape drive question

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 16:28:25 (-0500), Mike Katchabaw wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] OT:  Exabyte tape drive question
>
> Will the drive overheat without a fan?

I suspect you can best answer that question by downloading and reading
the technical specs and/or installation manual for that particular
drive.

The only Exabyte manufactured cases I've ever see have had fans in them,
though that's not a guarantee they're needed for that model.

(Since I don't have a really carefully cleaned machine room (just a
basement room where sometimes I have a screen window open directly to
the outdoors) I've always taken the fan out, reversed it, and installed
a foam filter over what is now the intake -- I hate fans that exhaust
from the chassis and pull dirt in from all the other openings, and at
least then I can clean the filter easily!)

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