Just found out I had a serious transient heat problem with my two SATA 
drives.  The SATA drive electronics heat up real bad (too hot to touch) 
when the drive is under heavy load.  I was getting system lockups - it 
seems that when the SATA drive electronics heat up, the SATA disk driver 
reports three ATA errors and then the box locks up.  By putting a fan 
under the drive, it stays cool and the drives work fine.

I bought a couple $12 thermometers with external sensors.  I mounted the 
display outside the case, and put the leads on the circuit board of the 
SATA drives and watched as I tried various things.  Anything that causes 
the drive to perform a lot of IO (find, dd, tar, etc) causes the CB to 
heat up, and the drives to "fail"

Obvious solution is to get a pair of drive coolers.  Any other 
suggestions.  Anyone else have this problem?

Sign me - wishing I used PATA drives...
-- 
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760
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