[Bug 377263] Re: hddtemp / conky make my hdds noisy

[Sebastian Krysmanski]

Hi,

I've the same problem. The problem is that hddtemp always spins-up the
harddrive when reading the temparerature from drive - although this is
not (always?) necessary. For my harddrive I can use "smartctl" to read
the harddrives temperature without spinning-up the drive.

To check this: Install the packages "smartmontools" and "hdparm". Then
choose a harddrive that isn't going to be used in the next couple of
minutes (in my case this is "/dev/sdc"). Then spin-down the drive:

  $ hdparm -Y /dev/sdc

You can check the drive's status by using:

  $ hdparm -C /dev/sdc
  /dev/sdc:
   drive state is:  standby

Then use "smartctl" to read the drive's S.M.A.R.T. data (if enabled):

  $ smartctl -A /dev/sdc
  smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
  Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

  #=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
  Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
  ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  ...
  188 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   071   059   000    Old_age   Always       -       29
  194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   148   115   000    Old_age   Always       -       30
  195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2618972
  ...

Run now again:

  $ hdparm -C /dev/sdc

In my case the drive is still idle. So it's defenitely a problem with
hddtemp.

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hddtemp / conky make my hdds noisy
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