Re: cooling disks on the sparcstation 20
Craig Dewick <[email protected]>
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The problems of overheating inside the SS5 and SS20 enclosure (same box - just a different system board, etc.) are I think one of the primary reasons why the Ultra 1's were designed with a larger enclosure. The two drive bays in the SS20 are very bad for cooling, and if you run with two SM71 processors (the max config Sun actually recommends) things can get quite hot. If you try running two SM81's (which will work, providing the OBP is a high enough version) that exceeds Sun's recommended ceilings for temperature rise inside the enclosure and with two drives fitted (particularly older ones which run hotter), there's very little forced airflow to keep the ambient temp inside the enclosure, esp. around the drive bays, down to a safe level. Regards, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "[email protected]". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".