CompuServe Messages

Martin: I had two drives in my server fail on the same day, a couple weeks back (both Micropolis: a 1.7 Gb and a 4Gb) — both with horrible whining jet-aircraft like noises. The 4Gb drive was a new one that I put in April to replace the previous 4Gb Micropolis that failed in the same way. The room is plenty cool, but I figured there wasn't enough air-flow in the case. So, I got one of those ISA cards that has two fans on it, and also removed the blanker plates covering a bunch of the accessable bays and fitted a foamcore-board panel with a muffin fan mounted in it. Hopefully this'll keep the 4 drives cool enough that I won't see this any more — I'm getting tired of spending my weekends and nights rebuilding my network!<g> Dave PS, a)Congrats on Virtuosity — saw it yesterday, and your (& Ralph's) stuff looked great! b)Once again we managed to miss meeting at SIGGRAPH. I saw you across the crowded room Sunday night, but as I had just spent 15 minutes wading back and forth from the crammed back-table to bar and back again, I was less than keen to sally forth until once more until I had done my beer some damage!<g> Then, we were just so tired from our previous night's adventures, that we left fairly early (eager to get back to our pleasant and comfortable new room. And I don't even want to TALK about trying to get around at the Autodesk party!