From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 10 8: 4:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A95037B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:04:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from weenix.guru.org (weenix.guru.org [24.199.153.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C371243EB2 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmitch@guru.org) Received: from guru.org (dhcp-64-102-83-151.cisco.com [64.102.83.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by weenix.guru.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EC6327BF; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:04:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E1EEF0B.7050807@guru.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:04:27 -0500 From: Keith Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Axel Simon Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) References: <20030110142540.GA1179@weenix.guru.org> <20030110145121.GE16712@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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