Description of problem: hddtemp giving false readings? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.3-0.11.beta15.fc7@i386 How reproducible:hddtemp /dev/sda Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Very high temperature reported (58-65C), drive is cool to the touch. Expected results: Normal temperature reported (28-34C) Additional info: The drive is cool to the touch, not even warm. I had assumed it was just a drive going bad, but the hdparm -tT tests are fine. Drive appears to be fine after a week(?) of heavy use (tried to push it into dying). At least one other person is seeing a problem: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=160265&highlight=hddtemp I suspect that this is a conflict of some sort. It is acting like when there is a temperature increase it adds the increase to the total instead of calculating a new total. [herb@localhost ~]$ hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0: 60°C This same hardware was running FC5 until recently without issue. This is a pata drive and there is also a sata drive in system (temperature readings normal). Case(33C) and other temps are all right where they have been. The PSU voltages are all normal.
Interesting. The first hunch is a Fahrenheit/Celsius issue but that's probably not the case; 60°F ~ 15°C would be susceptibly low. Have you checked what smartctl has to say about it, especially in the vendor specific SMART attributes section? As root: /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -i temperature
No, I had not (not a clue really). But here it is(translation please): [root@localhost ~]# /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -i temperature 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 090 080 000 Old_age Always - 60 [root@localhost ~]# hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0: 60°C [root@localhost ~]# The
Run the command without the grep to see column headings for the values reported by smartctl. That was just to verify that smartctl and hddtemp see the same value, and they do, 60. If the drive reports such values, I'm not sure there's much hddtemp can/should do about it. Have you got different values earlier from the drive, or has it always reported as high values as now?
No, in Fc5 the values would run from 28-34C. I guess the assessment is that it is probably a sensor failure on the drive somehow? I am assuming that regardless of whose fault it is, the 60C reading is incorrect, based upon cool to touch and the drive seems to be functionally ok. Still makes me nervous. Thanks for your assistance. Lazlow
Apparently this is a known issue with WD drives. http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1372&st=20 Sorry about the waste of time.
NP, thanks for the feedback.