Re: harddisk or kernel problem?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Steve Bromwich [Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:06:47PM -0400]:
> > 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?
>
> You won't believe it.
> It ran in a standard ECS Elitebook A530 Notebook.
> I always waited some time (30 Minutes up to some hours), when it was
> cold outside.
> I am working with this laptop about 10-20 hours a day, it runs several
> compile runs, etc.

It isn't that hot, and by ambient temperature I assume it's the
local temperature, not of the hard drive.

194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   079   074   042    Old_age   Always       -       54

and has been running almost fine for over 2 years.

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