From: Mitchell Leben (mitch_at_leben.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 17:47:50 EDT
Though I have no temperature readings, I can confirm that the Adaptec
1480A gets very very hot in my T20. It gets so hot, I am surprised it
still works. The heat is so extreme that I only pop in the card when I
need it. On my previous laptop (Winbook XL2) I left it in all the time.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, AC Brown wrote:
> Also, I measured the internal temperature near the case hot spot by
> taping the thermistor probe to the middle of a PCCard (an Adaptec 1480A
> scsi controller) in the computer's top PCCard slot; the bottom slot was
> empty. The PCCard peaked at 52.9 C and showed rapid swings of 10 C in
> 7-10 minutes. The high temperature and thermal excursions seems to me
> to be likely to lead to problems, but I've no hard data on the matter.
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