Re: IDE instability W/ ACPI ?

Re: IDE instability W/ ACPI ?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> 
> I remember I read something related, but couldn't find it now.
> Whith ACPI enabled, I often get complete lockups (usually, but not only)
> when trying to play movies ( = both CPU and disk activity). More often
> if I didn't use cpu-intensive programs in the last few hours (for
> example, I leave lopster running all night and in the morning try to
> watch a downloaded movie). The lock is really complete - no keyboard
> (even SysRq), no mouse, no network. It's not overheating (to be sure I
> bougnt a PCMCIA fan).

PCMCIA fan? How does that beast look like, and how does it guarantee
CPU not overheating?
								Pavel

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Re: IDE instability W/ ACPI ?

[Diego Zuccato]

Pavel Machek wrote:

> PCMCIA fan? How does that beast look like, and how does it guarantee
> CPU not overheating?
It's an "empty" PCMCIA card with some holes to let air flow. On the
external part there's a fan.

Let's try some ASCII art :-)
________
|       \___________________________
|___________________________________|

The fan is in the thick end. The thin end must be inserted in the PCMCIA
slot.
It's not really a big cooler (just 2-3 Celsius degrees less than
without), but at least it's something.
It doesen't GUARANTEE cpu doesen't overheat, but just TRIES.

BYtE,
 Diego.


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