Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!bionet!raven.alaska.edu!flux.isr.alaska.edu!ddr From: ddr@flux.isr.alaska.edu (Donald D Rice) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How to Cook a DECstation Message-ID: <1991Jun24.175447.25596@raven.alaska.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 17:54:47 GMT References: <1991Jun21.182020.17142@raven.alaska.edu> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: flux.isr.alaska.edu In article ajc@thendara.pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes: > > Don, > > As Jim Gettys has already pointed out, the system boxes on our > DS5000/xxx machines have thermostatically controlled fans. This > allows them to speed up when the temperature in the box gets higher. > It also allows them to run very slowly/quietly when they are not > needed. However, I posted your inquiry to the Reliability Engineers > just out of curiousity, and Jim was also correct in that we really > do mean what the specifications say. Thanks, both to you and Jim Gettys. I saw Jim's message on Friday, but yours came along after a network hub overheated and quit. Some PC clones also lost their marbles, but the DECstations did fine. One person on the sunward side of the building shut down his DECstation when the room temperature got near 104 F, but the rest of us survived by turning off the monitors to keep the room temperature under 100. The network hub stayed dead all weekend and finally resumed operation this morning (not DEC equipment; I didn't buy it). I guess the moral is that even in Alaska it pays to buy equipment with a decent operating temperature range...especially when you work in a building with a paleolithic air handling system. Thanks again. Don -- Don Rice Internet: ddr@flux.isr.alaska.edu Geophysical Institute E-mail: fnddr@alaska.bitnet University of Alaska Phone: (907) 474-7569 Fairbanks, AK 99775 Loran: 64.86N 212.16E