Vallen C. Aurelio writes:
> I'm just a bit worried abt. 4 of my 4 GB scsi drives. I have two for my
> proxy box and 2 also for my mail server. Each box has 1 IDE 2 GB Hard
> disks. One scsi drive of each box are just getting hotter and hotter, as
> if you could fry a sunny side up. And when i accidentally bumped in to
> the dmesg results, it was saying that one of the SCSI partitions of each
> box (partitioned for proxy and on the other machine was for the mail)
> were reporting corrupted space. Is this a normal thing?
Probably, but you'll never know for sure. Drives are strange animals.
> I dunno if
> that's the cause of some frequent hang-ups of my linux boxes.
It wouldn't be the first time. It's happened to me before, when I stuffed a
mini-tower case with 4 Seagate Barracudas.
> Overheating? can i do something about this?
Get an enclosure that was designed for ventilation. Most off-the-shelf
commercial PC cases, even full-tower ones, are designed to look nice on
your desk, but are _terrible_ for heavy duty use. Arrange your cables so as
not to obstruct the flow of air. If you use rack-mounted stuff, make sure
your rack has fans at the top as heat can build up quickly in a closed
rack. Store your server in a temperature-controlled room, etc. It's mostly
just common sense (e.g. not stuffing a mini-tower with 4 Seagate
Barracudas).
Brian
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