11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
6:07 a.m.
On 11/04/12 15:59, Craig Sanders wrote:
it. of much less importance, I also found that hddtemp woke the drives up anyway, whenever it queried the temperature.
I have never encountered that problem.
try idling a drive, then querying the temp with hddtemp or smartctl. It will spin it up. I haven't yet found a hard-disk brand that doesn't do this - so far tested seagate, western digital, hitachi, and samsung.
This might be something unique to your setup as well, Craig. My experience is in line with Tim's.. Querying the temperature responds with a message about the disk sleeping, and does not power it up.