"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
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