temperature of external disk

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Collins Richey wrote:

> 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.
>
No joy. The drive is recent but being in an external case makes all the
difference. It seems the SCSI emulation used to access the drive doesn't
emulate far enough...
I use hddtemp for my internal (IDE) drives.
-- 
Jorge Almeida