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- From: vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Disabling the fan on a Sparc - Any ideas ??
- Keywords: fan noise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.234331.15257@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 23:43:31 GMT
- References: <1cs53rINN73n@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov2.155831.19380@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Nov6.201532.20517@usl.edu>
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- In <1992Nov6.201532.20517@usl.edu> pml@cajun18.cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes:
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- >I have my SS2 sitting on my desk directly in front
- >of me with the monitor on top of it. I too found it a bit
- >noisy. I discovered though that simply blocking the opening
- >in the front of the slab between the two front feet prevented
- >a large amount of noise from coming out the front directly
- >at me. There are still large openings on the sides for
- >ventalation. If you try this make sure the sides are clear.
- >This has made a LARGE difference to me. Just something less
- >readical to try.
-
- SS2 has 2 fans.. SS1 has only one, and the disk drives are
- untouchable hot. To SS2 they added a small fan which blows
- through the bottom of the case, and probably makes the noise
- you are blocking away. The disk drives are hot, but not as
- hot as in SS1.
-
- I asked Sun about changing the internal disks to bigger and faster ones...
- they said it was not 'supported' because of ventilation problems..
-
- VesA
-
- I asked local sun about adding more disk
-