Re: harddisk or kernel problem?

[Steve Bromwich <kernel@fop.ns.ca>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Bruce Allen wrote:

> > 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   050   000    Old_age   Always
> > -       48 (Lifetime Min/Max 14/65)
> >
> > If I'm reading this correctly, you've been running the drive when it's
> > extremely cold and extremely hot (Min/Max 14/65, I'm guessing that's
> > either Fahrenheit or a raw unconverted reading from the thermistor).
>
> Neither.  Fujitsu uses Celsuis: 14, 48, and 65 are all in Celsuis.

Good grief... I'm not surprised the drive's dying, then! I've seen drives
lock up around 35C, I'm quite impressed the drive is still chugging along
(to some extent, at least) at 48C - and a max of 65C? Looking at a few of
Fujitsu's pages (eg,
http://www.fujitsu.ca/products/mobile_hdd/mht_ah/physical_specs.html),
ambient operating temperature is 5C to 55C - perhaps that's the cause of
the drive dying?

Just out of curiosity, Nico, what're you doing with these drives that
they're running so hot?

Cheers, Steve