On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:08, Richard 'Kee' Smith wrote:
They fitted a fan to the new 80gb slave drive i insisted they sell me and back up the remaining drive immediately. The fan is now giving making strange ticking noises, and as the PC lies on its side with the cover off, i notice that my older 60gb boot drive is considerably hotter than the new one
When you get your boot loader working again it may be worth installing the linux smartmontools, included in these should be smartctl which can run off-line and on-line diagnostics on your hard drives and report the findings (look at the man page to find out how to run the tests)
Lots of interesting stuff to be found including drive run hours, power cycles, error counts, current temp etc. Can be a bit of a pain to decipher it all but just post the output here and someone will tell you if it's good or bad news.
As to fixing Grub, can't really help you much there as I am still very much a lilo man myself :o)
Maybe mounting up the / and /boot partition from the recovery console and doing something like grub-install --recheck /dev/hda (you may want to read some docs here as I think you may have to point it at it's config files first) Be carefull or you could wipe out the ability to boot Windows (not that that's always a bad thing) Checking the existing grub config still has the win98 boot option is probably a wise thing to do beforehand.
As to your 60GB drive running hot, my two 7200 RPM seagates are both running at 31C at the moment, however these have two 8 CM fans blowing onto them so I'd expect maybe mid to high 30's without the fans.
BTW, contray to what logic may suggest, PC's can run hotter with the lid off ! The ATX case was designed so that the PSU fan and any additional fans would move the air around the case in a very specific way, take away the sides and you actually stop air getting sucked past the drives at the front (unless you have front fans) and there is reduced airflow past some of the mainboard components.
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