Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Frank ten Wolde <franky@pinewood.nl>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP4020 Writable CD-ROM failures - help requested Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.94.970115183445.5991w-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970116010429.00a41100@dimaga.com>
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>>Or, are you pretty sure that your drive isn't overheating? I've got a few >>reports by now that indicate that the HP parts are fairly sensitive >against >this. (The usual PC power-supply fan is certainly insufficient.) > >There is a HP4020i sitting in the office next to me, in a standard ATX >minitower with lousy cooling, and a PPro 200 and a 2GB Barracuda for extra >heat. The HP4020 sits right above the harddrive (floppy between) and there >is no space for air-circulation above (another CD-drive there). No problem >whatsoever; I've run about 10 CDs in sequence on it without it overheating. >YMMV. We've got an HP4020i that sat in the PC case for a few months, we pounded out about 40 CD's before it finally went south. It was sitting right above a 4GB Quantum Atlas, which runs hotter than a pistol. We put it in a nice fan-cooled case, but to no avail. We get SCSI errors on it all the time now. Brian
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