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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:49:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: BRiGHTMN <brightmn@a-v25.rh.sunyit.edu>
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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, BRiGHTMN wrote:

> > In case anyone was wondering: the original drive problems that
> > provoked this thread were thermal shutdown problems.  He has
> > been running the machine with an extra fan for the drive, and
> > the problem has not recurred.
> > 
> > FYI: it was a Quantum drive... it would have been obvious from
> > that that the problem was thermal.  8-).
> 
> umm i'm looking into buying a Quantum bigfoot 6.4gig for personal use
> bad idea?
> 

The 2.5G Bigfoot drives were fine and ran very cool.  The Quantum SCSI
drives are the ones that have overheating problems.

Jamie Bowden

System Administrator, iTRiBE.net