HiI've actually fried a hard drive in a Toshiba in nearly the same circumstance as you mention progressive mistakes when hot cold fsck's then death. Toshiba laptop fan's are software driven and not hardware driven like Compaq Armanda's. So under Linux the fan never comes on as it does in windoze.
So now I run fan -n on the Toshiba to keep it cool under load but mostly making sure it's well ventilated works.
The issue is ensure that the Sony has hardware driven fans. If not find (or write) the fan utility (if there is no fan then find one for your desk setup.).
Regards John At 01:51 AM 9/8/2001, Werner Heuser wrote:
for the third time, now I have experienced troubles with the hard disk in the SONY VAIO Z600TEK. When starting the machine I had to do a `fsck' and lost some files. As far as I can reconstruct the circumstances, this usually happened after some task causing a heavy CPU load for some amount of time (e.g. burning a MP3 to a CD). I suppose th