[Leaplist] Old disks (was: Different netbooks ... CPU and GPU limitations)

[Bryan J. Smith]

3ware uses a lot of older CMOS FPGAs and aren't the most
power efficient (although they don't run hot for the same reasons
either -- density is low) through the 8000 and, in a few ICs, the 9500S
series (but not 9550SX on-ward).  So it's already sucking up enough
current, so it likely has the regulation to provide quite a bit of 3.3 and
5V.  ;)


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From: Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>

Ouch.  I almost killed a 3Ware card in a similar blunder.  I mounted a
3.5" hard drive a bit too far forward and didn't realize the HD's shell
was touching the contacts of the disk access LED.  That LED was plugged
into a 3Ware controller which was then a dead short.  The 3Ware pumped
enough power into that LED wire to melt the entire ~2 feet of insulation
and finally burn off the solder joints to the LED.  Surprisingly the 3Ware
controller was not destroyed.

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