>>Dan Hugo wrote:
[ quantum fireball overheated ]
I've an older fireball that did the same thing: overheat and pack up.
I ended up putting a spare PS fan in the box (full towers have their
pluses :) to cool it down -- that fixed it.
(Spinning it down with hdparm also fixed it in linux; unfortunate
> touchable due to the heat. The ambient heat was enough
> to keep it really hot. That said, I never had any actual
> problems like this with it. How hot is it there?
>
> In that weather, just the heat out of the power supply is enough
> to keep things quite warm.
I bought one of these little fan
I'd warranty the drive - it sounds like you have a future paperweight.
I personally can't stand Quantum drives - I perceive them to be
unreliable. This is a personal opinion of course :)
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Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 09:30:02PM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote:
> > > I know my 2G fireball doesn't get very hot while running..
> >
> > I have a 3.2G, if that is useful. The rest of the system was fine (ie
> > ran off the rescue disk, and was not particularly warm to the touc
On Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 09:30:02PM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote:
> > I know my 2G fireball doesn't get very hot while running..
>
> I have a 3.2G, if that is useful. The rest of the system was fine (ie
> ran off the rescue disk, and was not particularly warm to the touch
> anywhere, and the power supply
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edward McKnight wrote:
>
> > Jason,
> >
> > I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty
> > sure
> > it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification.
> > I
> > don't consider it defective--I'
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edward McKnight wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure
> it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I
> don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising
> ca
ved. I've
seen the same disks spin continiously for hundreds of days in Sun
workstations.
-emk
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:02 -0700
> From: Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.d
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> Any other guesses?
Maybe it has nothing to do with the heat, just a defective disk?
Jason
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Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
>
> > I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green
> > light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking
> > slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to
> > know ex
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green
> light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking
> slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to
> know exactly what this means.
I've seen th
Greetings.
So I'm running 1.2.x of Debian, 2.0.27 kernel, and my machine (PPro 200,
Tyan 1668 ATX DP MB with 1 installed, very recent Award bios, 64M Ram,
and this [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quantum EIDE Fireball drive on MB EIDE controller)
was up
for about 45 days, until Monday night.
It was pretty hot
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