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From: co@ranko.cd.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TECH INFO: HARD DRIVE OVERHEATING
Message-ID: <846@vice2utc.chalmers.se>
Date: 7 May 90 16:24:15 GMT
References: <17100039@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <626@marvin.moncam.co.uk> <1415@dgbt.uucp>
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In article <1415@dgbt.uucp> gilles@dgbt.doc.ca.crc.dnd.ca (Gilles Gagnon DGBT/DIP) writes:
>In article <626@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>>In article <17100039@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>	I had a 3.5" Miniscribe 32 Mbytes hard disk ( Model 8034 if I
>recall correctly ) which started acting funny on me. It would loose track
>of where it was and would have to reset to cylinder 0 and retry to seek
>to the requested cylinder in order to access data. I traced the problem
>to lack of air circulation resulting in excessive heat around the drive.
>I cured the problem by placing a small fan in front of it and blowing air
>directly at the drive. Never had any problem since then.



Overheating problems are common. Don't place a hot drive under an another drive.
Place the hotest drive highest and cooler drives under. 

The problem is that it's not enough space between the drives and even if the
fan is good, the air don't reach the sensitive components and they can easily
be overheated.

Replacing the drives can often solve overheating problems.


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