Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:37 +0000 Paolo Donadeo's personal Internet site and blog https://www.donadeo.net/post/2008/christmas-cleaning p.donadeo@gmail.com (Paolo Donadeo) https://www.donadeo.net/post/2008/christmas-cleaning#comment-61 https://www.donadeo.net/post/2008/christmas-cleaning#comment-61 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:27:19 +0000 Pasckosky <div><p>20°C? Did you replaced the CD burner with a cover or you left the slot open?</p><p>It's easy to imagine such temperature difference if you shut down a disk, or if you remove it, but removing a component that should be idle for 99.999999% of the time is quite strange.</p><p>Anyway old components and old boards did not consider heating a big problem (there were bigger problems such as performances).</p><p>On the loading time, that is predictable. Each component take time to startup. SCSI takes a lot of time (I've seen this on many controllers), both at BIOS time and operating system time.</p><p>You did good removing them, just keep the floppy reader somewhere. It is rare, but sometimes it might be necessary.</p></div> https://www.donadeo.net/post/2008/christmas-cleaning#comment-62 https://www.donadeo.net/post/2008/christmas-cleaning#comment-62 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:37 +0000 Paolo <div><p>No, I closed both slots (CD burner and floppy) with a plastic cover. The issue wasn't with the heat produced by the two devices, but rather with the fact that the SCSI cable is <strong>very</strong> long and bulky, and prevented the air from freely flowing in the case.</p></div>