Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:04:27 -0500 From: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@guru.org> To: Axel Simon <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) Message-ID: <3E1EEF0B.7050807@guru.org> References: <20030110142540.GA1179@weenix.guru.org> <20030110145121.GE16712@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk>
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Axel Simon wrote: >Hi Keith, > >the only thing that comes to my mind is overheating. Bad cables would >probably result in more warnings before the controller does the reset. >Does the hard drive make loud clicking sounds before the system hangs? If >you don't know, maybe you put a fan in for 2 weeks... > >Heat killed 4 harddrives in my computer. The WD one is the one that >works. > I would buy that except it behaves differently with a different controller card. If it was heat related I would think it would have roughly the same time before failing. I would also think that if there was a heat problem in my case, then one of the SCSI hard drives I had in there before would have had problems as well (previously I had 4 7200 RPM SCSI drives in the system). -- Keith Mitchell Email: kmitch@guru.org PGP key available upon request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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