I was concerned about this myself, especially since I'm running a 33mhz
68040 in it. To my delight, it gets a bit warm to the touch but not too
terribly bad at all. In fact I feel like it gets hotter with the case
open and no airflow than closed with the fan running.
I have a couple external enclosures, but one of the goals of this
machine was a standalone machine with no bits hanging off it. A $5
25-pin active terminator is probably the easiest way to fix it that
doesn't involve expensive adapters. even if it doesn't quite keep it
fully slim.
Scott
------ Original Message ------
From: "Wesley Furr" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/2/2015 8:53:40 AM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: LVD-adapted drive and SCSI Voodoo question
Just be careful of the heat being generated by that 10k drive. I
worked for a small computer place in the late 90's that custom built
machines. We put together a server with a pair of Cheetah drives (the
10k drives presumably the same as you speak of) and then they kept
failing. Turned out they didn't have adequate cooling and were slowly
roasting themselves to death. Put them in drive bay adapters with fans
and they were fine after that. I mention this because I doubt the
LC475 has much in the way of cooling for the drive. If you're not
sure, let it run for a half hour or so and ease the cover off and touch
the drive... Stock drives in those machines were probably 5400rpm (or
slower) drives that didn't generate much if any heat...
Another option might be to pick up an external enclosure with decent
cooling and run it that way...that would also probably get around your
termination issues... Thinking on it further, I think it would be
accurate to say LVD SE drives don't have termination
capabilities...seems to me all those that I saw (in the PC world) came
with cables that had a terminator pack built onto the end of them...
Wesley
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