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Llama

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Registered: 2008-03-03

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HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

Hi,

Do lm_sensors/gkrellm provide for hard drives? I do know that my hard drives have temperature sensors, but they escape detection by sensors-detect. Is there a way to manage these sensors?

Last edited by Llama (2008-11-14 12:26:57)

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

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Re: HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

I believe HDD temps can only be read by smartmontools, but I could be wrong.

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Gert

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Registered: 2008-01-30

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Re: HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

Hi,

Do lm_sensors/gkrellm provide for hard drives? I do know that my hard drives have temperature sensors, but they escape detection by sensors-detect. Is there a way to manage these sensors?

If I understand correctly your problem you could try hddtemp to detect hard disk temperature. It works with gkrellm.

Afeter installation (it's in community) launch the demon (with root):

hddtemp -d /dev/<yourdevice>

and then:

hddtemp /dev/<yourdevice>

Last edited by Gert (2008-11-14 10:25:30)

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

Thanks!

CLI (hddtemp) works, shure enough. I can't figure out how to tell gkrellm about the new sensors, though .

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gkrellm-hddtemp plugin from AUR is the solution. hddtemp daemon lives in rc.conf ( DAEMONS=(...) ), as usual.

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First impressions: gkrellm-hddtemp plugin is better than nothing but still very beta. Probably dead or moribund, too.

Last edited by Llama (2008-11-14 12:23:51)

Gert

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Registered: 2008-01-30

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Re: HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

you could think about using conky...

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Llama

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Re: HDD temperature sensors & gkrellm

I tried conky . Nice and infinitely configurable, but a world unto itself. Takes a lot of learning...