retitle 654875 hddtemp: please support USB drives severity 654875 wishlist thanks
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:48:08PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > Package: hddtemp > Version: 0.3-beta15-51 > Severity: normal > > Hi. > > # hddtemp /dev/sdb > /dev/sdb: ST3250623A: S.M.A.R.T. not available > > However : > # grep ST3250623A /etc/hddtemp.db > "ST3250623A" 194 C "Seagate Barracuda 7200.16 > 250GB" > > Now, maybe it's because the drive is connected through an USB adapter. Yes, it's because your drive is connected through an USB adapter, which hddtemp doesn't support. > Still, smartcl seems to be able to figure out : > # smartctl --all /dev/sdb | head -n 10 > smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 family > Device Model: ST3250623A > Serial Number: 9ND19NLL > Firmware Version: 3.04 > User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes > Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] > > and : > > root@sheeva:~# smartctl --all /dev/sdb | grep 194 > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 054 000 Old_age Always > - 44 (0 19 0 0) > > Reading from the description of hddtemp, it seems it should be able to run > for whatever smartcl is able too... or I'm not invoking it the right way ? > No, the description of hddtemp only mentions PATA, SATA and SCSI, it doesn't mentions hard drive connected through USB. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
