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PowerPC Dual G5 preps for take off while fsck'n the main drive.

Anyone experienced 100% fan speed for long durations on a PowerPC? Ive got a Dual 2.0Ghz G5 and I ran fsck on the main drive from Single User Mode and that thing revved up and stayed revved up for a reasonable amount of time. Just figured…

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@lanceomni Published 2009-02-19
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Leopard 10.5
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3,572 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2009-02-19 – 2009-02-21
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Anyone experienced 100% fan speed for long durations on a PowerPC? Ive got a Dual 2.0Ghz G5 and I ran fsck on the main drive from Single User Mode and that thing revved up and stayed revved up for a reasonable amount of time.

Just figured Id see if anyone has experienced anything like this before.

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Field Note #1 @R0GUE 2009-02-21

Yup, this is typical of the G5 - no fan control in this mode. They all do this unfortunately

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