On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 18:38, Marty wrote: > That looks familiar.
OK! > In my case it also warned of imminent drive failure, It said nothing about that... > smartctl -H indicated that the disk was failing, OK, I get: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED (PASSED on hdb too) > and the > BIOS SMART function warned about the disk. Swapping out the power > supply seems to have cleared up all problems and the disk now passes > all tests. Cool! :-) > Of course there's a chance your drive motor could really > be failing. Yeah... > Surge performance has nothing to do with steady state power or heat > dissapation. It's the ability to handle transient loads, and depends > mostly on the quality of the design and components in the power > supply. It may also be related to component aging or other > degradation of the power supply. Yup, sure. > > Is there any way I can measure the actual consumption? > > You probably need a storage scope and current probe. Hmmm, OK. I don't have that here. I suppose I could find a lab at my old uni and scare someone into helping though, but I'm not sure it is worth the effort. > > I don't have a more powerful > > PSU available, and the cost of that means it gets even harder to > > decide what is the right thing to do... Since I need a larger disk > > anyway... > > If it's the power supply, then you may need to retire it anyway. Yup. But in that case, I'd like one of these...: http://www.ups2.com/ and I have been holding off on that, under the assumption that my current PSU is actually OK... Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
