On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:16:38PM -0600, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> Hadn't actually thought about it... since I'm more familiar with
> Fahrenheit.  I'm in my basement, the air temp is 68-70 F, or 20-21 C,
> the computer is sitting directly on my concrete floor.  So, either the
> drives are reporting inaccurately, hddtemp is inaccurate, or the air
> down by the concrete floor is causing the lower temp.  It is cooler
> there, but I highly doubt that it is 10 F less.

My guess would be that hddtemp is configured to read the wrong smart
value as the temp.  Right now this is all guess work.  The values and
what they mean are not documented.  Try running hddtemp --debug <drive>
to see all the values and see if there is a better one for your drive.

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