From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 9:23: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F0437B400; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A64443E4A; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:22:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [80.129.124.127] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.75 #2) id 17lXUz-0005GM-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:22:53 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 187423F6; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jan-freebsd.lan (jan-freebsd.lan [192.168.0.22]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id BDF6477; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:22:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: disk hardware failure? => new disk From: Jan Lentfer To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Marco Beishuizen , FreeBSD alpha mailing list , FreeBSD questions mailing list In-Reply-To: <20020901164118.A4222@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020901112635.C3683@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020901164118.A4222@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 01 Sep 2002 18:22:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1030897369.237.16.camel@jan-freebsd.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am So, 2002-09-01 um 16.41 schrieb Wilko Bulte: > All SCSI drives work in the Alpha (cooling might be an issue in the PWS > for hot running drives) That is definitely right. The ventilation in the PWS case is not really great. One of my disks died a painful (for me) burning death - it got so hot you couldn't touch it without burning your hand, the disk died after 3 days. I put a 2 fan cooling system in front of the disks, now everything works fine. Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 16 5563 / Tel private: +49 6151 788415 / mobile: +49 163 4712037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message