dead IBM drives

[Wombat]

I'm sorry fav, your last post was...incomprehensible.

If you're asking about acceptable voltages, the ATX specification allows most voltages to be +/- 5% (3.3V line is 4%). Anything from 11.4V-12.6V is therefore acceptable.

[fav]

Yeah, I'm speaking about voltage tolerances.

ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/atx_201.pdf

#4.2.2

It matters if your PSU is OK and you have some equipment deaths feeding from this PSU.

Other discussions about 'bad IBM support' and 'lawyers on IBM backs' are not welcome.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Originally posted by Wombat
---ttiest Carnot engine in the---

What's a Carnot? If it's a typo, sorry.

[Wombat]

Just the idea that any machine will have inefficiencies, and you'll have to put more work into it than you get out of it.

[LvR]

"Carnot cycle" - see Thermodynamics 101

[fav]

Wombat, what makes a good PSU behave different than a bad PSU?

Do them both run within ATX specs?

[The PIT]

I would say mainly how they work out there power ratings. If you go to Antec's web site and hunt around a little bit they have a good write up.
Going back to IBM drives three out of four I've got have devoloped bad clusters over a period of time. The power connector also seems a twitchy item. Often the click of depair (not death) follows a card change and reseating the cables, although tight seems to cure it. It's just the IBM drives I got that do this. The others Fujistu (Now dead like so many others) Quatum and Maxtor don't do this.

[xortam]

Don't answer him Wombat ... we don't want him getting any crazier.

Originally posted by fav
Guys, don't make me crazy, stick to my question. PLEASE.

All I need is your power supply +12 output values.

That's all.

[az]

Fav, what is the point of this thread, please? I don't understand it, I think. Could you explain to me what you're trying to find out or prove?

AZ