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Date:      Wed, 06 May 2009 13:53:24 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [munin-users] Replacement for "hdparm -C"?
Message-ID:  <4A017A34.2080007@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <883388359.20090506142905@mail.ru>
References:  <20090506092040.GG10207@lupe-christoph.de>	<554220569.20090506124731@mail.ru>	<20090506111242.GD24549@lupe-christoph.de> <883388359.20090506142905@mail.ru>

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Sergey A. Kobzar schrieb:
> Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 2:12:42 PM, Lupe wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, 2009-05-06 at 12:47:31 +0300, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote:
>>> Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 12:20:40 PM, Lupe wrote:
> 
>>> AFAIK you can get HDD temp using sysutils/smartmontools on FreeBSD
>>> only.
> 
>> The plugin use the smartctl command.
> 
>>> I never tried to do this for disks which are spin down. But why do you
>>> need check temperature of such disks? One time someone will ask you to
>>> minitor temperature for suspended server... IMHO it's not fully
>>> correct :)
> 
>> The plugin is run every five minutes for all disks it is told to watch. A
>> disk that is always spun down should not be on that list ;-)
> 
> This should help:
> 
> SMARTCTL(8):
> 
>        -n POWERMODE, --nocheck=POWERMODE
>               Specifieds if smartctl should exit before performing any  checks
>               when  the  device is in a low-power mode. It may be used to pre-
>               vent a disk from being spun-up by smartctl. The  power  mode  is
>               ignored by default. The allowed values of POWERMODE are:
> 
> 
> Something like:
> 
> # smartctl -n standby -a /dev/ad0 | grep -i temp

Does this actually work? ISTR that this failed at least for some SATA
controllers, such as VIA 8237.



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