Fedora 14 -- Hard Drive Temperature over 60 C.

[Chris O'Connell]

How about indexing or some other service that is causing the drive to run
continuously?  Did _top_ show you anything of interest as far as running
services?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Coule possibly be. I ran hddtemp on my Ubuntu netbook it shows 34°C. And
> the netbook has been running since Monday. I also show 34°C on my
> desktop Fedora 14 system that does use LVM. I don't think that LVM is
> necessarily the culprit. I still think that checking the laptop cooling
> is probably one option can be checked. There was also some online issues
> with the dv2000. It could be that you might just have a bad fan.
>
> On 04/28/2011 07:56 AM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
> > Thanks, Jerry!
> >
> > It shouldn't be the dust, as there is no such heating problem if my
> > laptop runs Windows.  Some people suggest that it's LVM that makes HDD
> > reading head moving around and thus cause a lot of heat...  Seems
> > there's no feasible workaround except that I reinstall Fedora opting
> > out LVM...
> >
> > Hsuanyeh
> >
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> > *From:* Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> > *To:* discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> > *Sent:* Thu, April 28, 2011 7:41:31 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: Fedora 14 -- Hard Drive Temperature over 60 C.
> >
> > On 04/26/2011 04:05 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
> > > Hello all!
> > >
> > > I have Fedora 14 on my laptop (HP Pavillion dv2000), and it makes my
> > hard drive
> > > (Seagate) generates a lot of heat:
> > >
> > >
> > >    # hddtemp /dev/sda
> > >    /dev/sda: ST9250315AS: 62°C
> > >
> > > Any suggestions on how to make my hard drive spin down or cool
> > down?  Thanks!
> > I'm not an expert on this one. Make sure that all the cooling ducts are
> > free of dust. You might want to take the laptop apart and clean it.
> > Here is a maintenance manual
> > http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01035657.pdf
> >
> > Also make sure you don't have any applications running that continually
> > use the HDD. Dynamic backgrounds or screen savers will do that. Check
> > your power settings (Preferences/Power Management). There is an option
> > to spin down the HDD.
> >
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