Comments on: Christmas cleaning http://www.donadeo.net/2008/01/christmas-cleaning/ All about my life, job and thoughts Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:21:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Paolo http://www.donadeo.net/2008/01/christmas-cleaning/#comment-62 Paolo Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:37 +0000 http://www.donadeo.net/blog/2008/01/04/christmas-cleaning/#comment-62 No, I closed both slots (CD burner and floppy) with a plastic cover. The issue wasn't with the heat produced by the two devices, but rather with the fact that the SCSI cable is <b>very</b> long and bulky, and prevented the air from freely flowing in the case. No, I closed both slots (CD burner and floppy) with a plastic cover. The issue wasn’t with the heat produced by the two devices, but rather with the fact that the SCSI cable is very long and bulky, and prevented the air from freely flowing in the case.

]]> By: Pasckosky http://www.donadeo.net/2008/01/christmas-cleaning/#comment-61 Pasckosky Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:27:19 +0000 http://www.donadeo.net/blog/2008/01/04/christmas-cleaning/#comment-61 20°C? Did you replaced the CD burner with a cover or you left the slot open? It's easy to imagine such temperature difference if you shut down a disk, or if you remove it, but removing a component that should be idle for 99.999999% of the time is quite strange. Anyway old components and old boards did not consider heating a big problem (there were bigger problems such as performances). On the loading time, that is predictable. Each component take time to startup. SCSI takes a lot of time (I've seen this on many controllers), both at BIOS time and operating system time. You did good removing them, just keep the floppy reader somewhere. It is rare, but sometimes it might be necessary. 20°C?
Did you replaced the CD burner with a cover or you left the slot open?

It’s easy to imagine such temperature difference if you shut down a disk, or if you remove it, but removing a component that should be idle for 99.999999% of the time is quite strange.

Anyway old components and old boards did not consider heating a big problem (there were bigger problems such as performances).

On the loading time, that is predictable. Each component take time to startup. SCSI takes a lot of time (I’ve seen this on many controllers), both at BIOS time and operating system time.

You did good removing them, just keep the floppy reader somewhere. It is rare, but sometimes it might be necessary.

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