temperature of external disk

[Collins Richey]

On 10/17/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> I have an IDE Maxtor HD in an external Conceptronic case, with firewire
> conexion. The problem is: the case is hot. Not burning hot, but hot. I
> would like to know the temperature of the disk inside, but how? hddtemp
> is supposed to support SCSI disks now, but of course this is not a real
> SCSI. To complicate things a little (maybe), the disk has an encrypted
> partition (with LUKS). So, I have /dev/mapper/external_hd1 and
> /dev/external_hd. I suppose the latter is the one that matters, from a
> monitoring viewpoint.
>
> Anyone knows whether it is possible to read the temperature?
>

'hddtemp' should do the job if your diskdrive in the enclosure is
capable of reparting SMART data. I can't prove it, because my one
external drive is not capable. hddtemp is available as a deb package,
and I imageine you canfind an rpmfor it as well.

Enjoy,

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Collins Richey
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