Re: Some voltage readings, off & low when they are not

On Sunday 27 January 2008, Achim Theobald wrote:
>Gene Heskett schrieb:
>> On Sunday 27 January 2008, Bill Wilson wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:16:50 -0500
>>>
>>> Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> But, a restart on gkrellm seems to have worked.  Which set of stuff in
>>>> the sensors.conf do I edit to set the alarm levels, they are generally
>>>> pretty fubar:
>>>
>>> The "ALARM" stuff in sensors.conf is for chip level alarm detection which
>>> I'm not sure if it's useful to tinker with.  Search for "alarm" at:
>>>
>>> http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3
>>>
>>> Gkrellm alarms are still set within gkrellm and are independent of
>>> whether libsensors is being used.
>>
>> ok, I see that now, and reset it for reasonable tolerances for the 5 volt
>> line.
>>
>> Now, at one point, before libata took over, I had the ability to monitor
>> drive temps too, but now that libata is calling everything a scsi drive, I
>> don't have that option available now.  The drives are all smart capable,
>> and smartctl can watch them, and smartd is spamming the logs with temp
>> info thats a bit useless for my boot drive, its reporting in F when it
>> should be C.  So that drive is saying its running at well over the boiling
>> point of water when in fact its fan cooled and essentially at room temps +
>> 10F according to my fingers touching it.
>>
>> Will this be restored at some point, or do I need to install another
>> daemon of some sort now?
>
>Use hddtemp: http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php
>It works with libata & gkrellm.
>
I found the rpm for beta15 and installed it.  Started it with
'hddtemp -d /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc'
netcat isn't installed, but

[root@coyote ~]# telnet localhost 7634
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
|/dev/sda|WDC WD2000JB-00EVA0|33|C||/dev/sdb|MAXTOR STM3320620A|32|
C||/dev/sdc|Hitachi HDT725040VLA360|35|C|Connection closed by foreign host.

So that's working, and a restart of gkrellm found it just fine.  Thanks Achim.

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