2950 hard drive temperatures

[Erwin Abbott]

Hi Gavin,

I think you can get close to what you want by installing the "smartd"
package (ie: apt-get install smartd).  You'll need to edit
/etc/smartd.conf to have lines like this for continuous monitoring to
/var/log/smartd.log:

/dev/hda -S on -o on -a -I 194 -l error -l selftest -n standby
/dev/hdb -S on -o on -a -I 194 -l error -l selftest -n standby

It seems all 6 of your drives are probably SCSI? I haven't bothered to
setup my single SCSI drive for monitoring but this looks helpful:

root at localhost# smartctl --all /dev/sda
...
Device: SEAGATE  ST318453LW       Version: DX09
Serial number: 3JY0GTVR
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4)
Local Time is: Wed Jul 11 11:31:24 2007 EDT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     35 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        68 C
...

I'm not sure what caused that 68 C reading (the ambient temp inside
the case is typically 33 C).  But that should get you started.

Cheers,
- Erwin

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> -----Original Message-----
> I've been trying to get the temperatures of the individual drives in the
> machine. It's got 6 drives in it, the omsa storage section shows the
> drives and shows various information about them, but doesn't have any
> temperatures. I've also tried to get this information using the MegaCLI
> tool but it doesn't seem to have it.
>
> Is it possible to get this information from the drives? I've had a look
> at using hddtemp but it wants to get it's information from the SMART
> information on the drive. Only I don't seem to be able to get at this
> information.