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From: davem@bcsaic.UUCP (doug ruth)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: hard disk space heater
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 18:35:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 18:35:47 1986
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I recently bought a 20 meg harddisk to upgrade my IBM PC-1.
Since I didn't buy a power supply upgrade, I salvalged one
from an old project and set the disk and power supply up
externally.

The drive was running awfully warm.  Too warm. Hot as a pistol.
The second day, after being on for about three hours, DOS starts 
to complain about the drive.  After turning off, and cooling down,
I find I have to reformat some bad sectors off the media.

The question is, did I just get a lemon or is this a chronic problem?
I intend to send it back monday ...  the drive is running 
in the open air, and I keep it pretty cool at my house.
Still, the only way to prevent it from heating severely is to
put a pack of blue ice (I kid you not!!!) on top of the drive.

Please respond to the following address, as I am a guest on this
system.

				thanks in advance...
				david m. chinn
				...uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!butler!chinn