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RetroX

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Registered: 2009-10-17

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HDDTemp won't access drive?

I can use sudo to get the temperature for both of my 2 hard drives, although the hddtemp daemon can only load the first hard drive (/dev/sdb gets an open error).  Is there a way to fix this?

graysky

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Re: HDDTemp won't access drive?

You're running the daemon?  Why?  Add your user to your /etc/sudoers and:

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ST31000528AS: 28°C

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdb
/dev/sda: ST31000528AS: 27°C

Example entry for sudo:

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp

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MindTooth

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Re: HDDTemp won't access drive?

Thank you so much for the solution given To bad hddtemp needs to be run as root.

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Re: HDDTemp won't access drive?

Did you set up the daemon through its configuration file?

If not, you might wanna try that first. I remember having no problem running the daemon with multiple hard disks.

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RetroX

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Registered: 2009-10-17

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Re: HDDTemp won't access drive?

You're running the daemon?  Why?  Add your user to your /etc/sudoers and:

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ST31000528AS: 28°C

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdb
/dev/sda: ST31000528AS: 27°C

Example entry for sudo:

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp

I should have probably done that; either way, I have a new computer, now, and no longer have this problem.