On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Vallen C. Aurelio wrote:
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> hi there guys!
>
> 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? I dunno if
> that's the cause of some frequent hang-ups of my linux boxes.
> Overheating? can i do something about this?
Yes, overheating does cause corrupted space. I've seen it on both
Barracuda and Cheetah hard drives. Maybe it's time you invested in a
server case with adequate ventilation for your drives.
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