Well, it's a notebook drive, the enclosure is smaller then a 3.5 HD. So I'm not
sure how a fan would fit... maybe one of those tiny little Pismo fans, I have
an extra one of those. I'll have to try that, thanks for the suggestion. Photos
would be nice. :)
-Elliott Price
Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services
hobbittech.com/quoit
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Bruce Johnson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have no idea how or why, but whenever that Iomega drive is hooked up, I
>>> have troubles with sleeping, waking, system crashes, etc. that all go away
>>> when I unplug it.
>>
>>
>> It's a flaky USB or Firewire enclosure on the Iomega. Betcha your system log
>> (see Console in /Applications/Utilities) is full of USB or Firewire errors
>> when the Iomega is plugged in.
>>
>> MY old Beige used to have similar problems with a Iomege external CDRW
>> drive.
>>
>
> Just a quick question: Does the enclosure have a fan?
> I know that a certain revision of the WD MyBook drives are nortirious
> for overheating (The controller, not the physical drive) and would
> crash, but the system would still spend as much as it possibly could
> on trying to access the drive, rendering the system useless until the
> disk was unplugged.
> You might want to attach a fan on there (It's real easy, Red wire to
> red wire, black to black, or use a chained Molex style if that's your
> thing... (mine is SATA, so I just hardwired it), and then mount the
> fan on the electronics some how... (I can link to a picture of mine if
> you'd like, for inspiration sake)
>
> Try that before ruling the whole enclosure off... (But, for a
> long-term fix, a fan-included enclosure would be best, just pop the
> drive out and into it's new home)
>
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