On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:21:04PM +0000, James Harper wrote:
I can see that this is a limitation without reason, but what use is reading the temperature of a sleeping drive? It would throw out all your averages.
i'm usually not interested in the average temp. i'm usually interested in the temp. right now and the trend over the last hour or so (i.e. how fast the temp. is rising)....to help decide whether to shut the system down or not on a hot summer day. if the drive temps are significantly over about 40C and look like they're heading towards 50+C then i want to shut it down even if the drives are sleeping. there's usually only a few days/year where it matters (and this summer has been good...i don't think we've had even one 40C day in Melbourne so far), but heat kills drives.
hddtemp will skip the temperature read if the drive is asleep unless you specify the '-w' option.
yep, but -w defeats the purpose of setting the drive's sleep timeout. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>