From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267172AbUBSAPo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:15:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267174AbUBSAPo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:15:44 -0500 Received: from mx.eastlink.ca ([24.222.0.20]:8254 "EHLO mx.eastlink.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267172AbUBSAPm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:15:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:06:47 -0400 (AST) From: Steve Bromwich Subject: Re: harddisk or kernel problem? In-reply-to: To: Bruce Allen Cc: Nico Schottelius , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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