On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Danilo Godec wrote:
> Well, the chassis is an Intel pre-installed rack mountable one with
> hot-swappable SCSI backplane. All the cables were there allready connected
> to disk racks. All I had to do was to install the disks in the racks and
> slide them in.
I finally managed to get myself to the server location where I found out,
that two big fans of the 19" rack enclosure failed (not only were they not
spinning properly, they were VERY hot, acting more like a hairdryer than
cooling fans).
I removed them and so far, I have 9 days of up-time without a single scsi
hickup. Of course, while being there I also replaced the scsi cable and
installed a new LVD terminator (instead of using the backplane's on-board
termination).
The other thing I noticed was that the AIC7xxx chip on the motherboard has
no cooling at all and it got quite worm even in the few minutes the
machine was on the workbench, so I decided to stick a passive cooler on it
when I get the next chance... Just for the sake of it. If this is a bad
idea, I'd like to know before I do it... :)
Thanks, D.
