Hard Drive Spindle Temp ???

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:38:59AM -0500, Paul Courchene wrote:
> Good Morning
> 
> I have a friend who is working on a project and they want to monitor the temperature
> of a Hard Drive, while under test ... 
> 
> I understand that some hard drives have a capability called: ???Smart Data???,
> that records the spindle temperature. 
> 
> Are there any MS Windoze drivers that will monitor the Temp via Smart Data ?
> 
> Has anyone used this capability on a Linux Box ?

On Linux, smartctl is used to read this info. Each disk
manufacturer has different codes, so it may be difficult to
interpret or some data may be missing.

-dsr-


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