[ILUG] New SCSI disk gets very hot

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> The disk is a Hitachi Ultrastar (10,000rpm).

10ks can get quite hot, 15ks /really/ hot. As others have advised, 
install fans.

> Also, the disk has 80 pins, while the disk it is replacing had 68 pins.
> I'm using a 68-pin to 80-pin adaptor from Hong Kong.
> Is that likely to be adequate?

Yes, it's purely a physical form-factor thing, hard to get wrong no 
matter how cheap. 68 of those 80 correspond /exactly/ signal wise to 
the 68 pins on your old drive. (the other 12 pins are power and drive 
LED).

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
printk(KERN_ERR "scsi%d: !!BINGO!! Falcon has no lock in NCR5380_abort\n", ...)
         linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/atari_NCR5380.c