Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Mega 2 Fan Question Message-ID: <10974@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 16 Feb 90 01:51:00 GMT References: <19415@nuchat.UUCP> <76921@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2990@water.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 17 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc In article <2990@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes: %In article <76921@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: %> %> I have a mega 2 with PC speed installed, and one external SF314 disk drive. %>When either disk drive is accessed the fan in the mega slows down... %>Is this a normal condition? Should I check my power supply? Could it have %>anything to do with PC Speed? % %My Mega 2 does this too. Did it when it was new. Still does it now. %I take it to mean marginal power supply and heavy current draw by the %motor for the drive. So far, I have no hardware additions. My Mega 4 does this too, and as far as I remember, it's done it since it was new as well. Of course, now I have a bunch of stuff attached inside it... No external floppy drive though. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan