Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: hard disk care question Message-ID: <774@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 21 Sep 89 11:18:55 GMT Lines: 24 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >I know that running a drive hot is very bad for its life cycle (which >in the case of a Seagate drive may not be long, anyway). Regardless, >is there anything I can do about it? I thought that the power supply >I bought may be mismatched to the power requirements of the drive -- >that it might be supplying too much or too little power to the drive >unit. Could this be a likely explanation for the heat problem? While it is always difficult to judge the amount of heat from a description, yours does sound like it might be running a little too hot. The only real solution is to get a lot of airflow over the drive itself. If it still runs too hot in open air, get yourself a fan and point it at the drive. If there is space within the enclosure, you could mount it in there. One good thing about it is that you can't make it run too cool. -larry -- The Mac? Oh, that's just like a computer, only slower. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+