Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:13:25 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org (FreeBSD SCSI list), handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: CD-R recommendations? Message-ID: <199612161813.AA087010006@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:02:26 %2B0100." <199612160902.KAA06418@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Brian N. Handy wrote:
>
> > There's nothing else running on that machine, so I'm beginning to think
> > the drive is headed for the dirt again. Since I've had such lousy luck
> > with these, I'm thinking about picking up a different brand of CDR and
> > giving it a try.
>
> Just curious, your HP 4020 is an internal drive, right? Are you
> pretty sure you have cooled it enough? Mounting it in a normal PC
> tower is very likely to be _not_ enough cooling, as other people have
> also reporting. You typically get write aborts when it overheats. (I
> eventually forgot the exact SCSI error message, but ISTR that somebody
> told me the error is explained in their SCSI ref manual.)
[ Note: while I'm an HP employee, I have nothing to do with CDRs, except
as a user. I'm just a messenger. ;-) ]
I forgot where I saw it, but the maximum operating temperature of
the HP 4020i is something like 35deg.C, or 95deg.F. Yes, it's that
low, and I can easily imagine a 4020i "overheating" inside many PC cases
(which tend to have poor cooling).
Hmm. I might have seen this at:
http://www.cd-info.com/CDIC/Technology/CD-R/HP-FAQ.html
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
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little green men that have been following him all day.
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