It was just under eight months ago that I replaced the fan in my IBM T42 laptop.  Now, I found myself awaken this morning at 0651 to a grinding sound from across the room - the laptop fan is failing again!

You can listen to MP3s of it: here and here.

I really hate fans in computers.  They always cause problems for me, it seems.  I've had to ditch $400 video cards because of cheap $2 fans that aren't sold _anywhere_.  I think I'm just going to disable this thing with /proc/acpi/ibm/fan (or ecdump, whichever file works this week) and run the laptop in powersave mode.

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