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From: evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 mg hard card / ventilation
Message-ID: <108@ndcheg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 11:48:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndcheg.108
Posted: Thu Jun 18 11:48:50 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 00:48:35 EDT
References: <3737@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Organization: University of Notre Dame
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Summary: I had the opposite problem

In article <3737@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>, tpf@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Friedel) writes:
> I recently purchased a CMS 20 meg hard card, which according to the
> instructions I placed in the left-most slot of my PC.  Since the CMS
> card seems to take up just over 1.5 slots, and all of my other slots
> are full, this was the only place for it anyway.
> 
> However, when I have my PC on for more than about three hours, I start
> getting 'sector not found' errors, and eventually the entire machine is
> operationless.  I discovered that this was because the hard card was 
> overheating.  Now I'm running my PC with the case open and a house fan
> pointed at the hard card.  This works great!! (but not a permanent solution).

This is the exact opposite of a problem I had with a FlashCard-20 that
I purchased from Compu-Add.  The card would not boot from a cold
start, especially if the computer had been off for a few days.  I could
boot from a floppy, but then I would get a lot of 'sector not found' or
'disk seek error' type errors.  After about an hour, the disk would warm
up sufficiently to enable a boot from the card and subsequent normal
operation.  I returned the card to Compu-Add (it was under a one-year
warranty) and received a replacement in a few days.  The replacement was
not a new drive but it has worked flawlessly.

  Evan Bauman
  University of Notre Dame
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