"fan -n"????
I have noticed that my IBM notebook runs HOT!!
Is there a fan function available fo an A21m?????
John Jeffers wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've actually fried a hard drive in a Toshiba in nearly the same
> circumstance as you mention progressive mistakes when hot cold fsck's
> then death. Toshiba laptop fan's are software driven and not hardware
> driven like Compaq Armanda's. So under Linux the fan never comes on as
> it does in windoze.
>
> So now I run fan -n on the Toshiba to keep it cool under load but mostly
> making sure it's well ventilated works.
>
> The issue is ensure that the Sony has hardware driven fans. If not find
> (or write) the fan utility (if there is no fan then find one for your
> desk setup.).
>
> Regards John
>
>
>
> At 01:51 AM 9/8/2001, Werner Heuser wrote:
>
>> for the third time, now I have experienced troubles with the
>> hard disk in the SONY VAIO Z600TEK. When starting the
>> machine I had to do a `fsck' and lost some files. As far as
>> I can reconstruct the circumstances, this usually happened
>> after some task causing a heavy CPU load for some
>> amount of time (e.g. burning a MP3 to a CD). I suppose
>> th
>
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