2950 hard drive temperatures

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Erwin Abbott wrote:
> 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:

Worse, they are behind a scsi-controller that does not like smart queries. 
Best case, it will just refuse to give you data, worst case it will annoy the 
controller/driver to die and/or corrupt data :-(

> PS: I just joined the list.  Is it customary to reply to the list AND
> the sender (as Gmail wants to do), or just the list?

I only reply to list unless people specifically request a direct cc.

/Peter
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