Mark Kirkwood wrote: > You could emerge smartmontools, and see if its temperature > readings agree with hddtemp (they should).
Here both smartmontools and hddtemp report a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. But KSensors gives a system temperature of 33. Sticking in a normal thermometre through the open floppy bay and leaving it there for half an hour shows 35 degrees -- that's at the top of the case, so that would fit nicely with 33 degrees lower in the box. The harddisk is directly below the floppy bay: it should be around 35 degrees, not the reported 27. Also, at boot-time smartmon reports around 7 degrees, while the room is around 17. Apparently some disks report their temperature inaccurately. /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 27°C Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
