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- From: Finn Nielsen <zznyyd@diku.dk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD Sleep
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:53:59 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
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- csutg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J M J Wilde) wrote:
- >: Are they safe, has anyone had any trouble etc.
- >
- >I put one of those hard drive sleeper programs on my hard disk last year.
- >Since then my hard drive has become very ill. The problem was probably that
- >my desk was in front of a large window, that got lots of sun in the summer;
- >no doubt my computer got hot in the sun and the hard drive couldn't keep cool.
- >
- >The funny thing is the hard drive now beeps alot at power up; and I never
- >even realised it could make beepy noises.
- >
- >Also my hard drive often seems to crash during access; from which it, and the
- >Amiga, seems to recover remarkably well. Sometimes it struggles and then
- >appears to do a full shut-down and power-up of the hard drive, complete with
- >beeps.
- >
- >So, the lesson is don't leave your hard drive in the sun, with the fan
- >powered down.
- >
- >
- >Justin
- >
- >justinw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
- >
- >
-
- Does anybody out there knows what this cute little story has to do with
- HDSleep ???????????????????????????????
-
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