[rescue] Hard Drive Just Died

Chris Byrne chris at chrisbyrne.com
Wed Apr 17 21:02:52 CDT 2002


Actually I've found that first rev fireballs (and bigfoots as well) do heat
up like sunzabitches. I've actually had a few heat related failures on them
when I was living in AZ (90 degrees even with AC)

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
> Sent: 17 April 2002 23:49
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Hard Drive Just Died
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >
> > 50.  It goes in a SPARCclassic.  I've got a Quantum fireball I
> could toss
> > in there, but I'd worry about it overheating.  What do you think?
>
> besides the name making the drive sound scary (what was quantum
> thinking) i
> don't think you should have any real heat issues with the classic.  if it
> scares you though, dig around for the lunchbox fan mods page, it's easy to
> add airflow to those things.
>
> -brian
> --
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> your feet is
>  your best foot, cut one off. Then it doesn't matter."   -
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