It seems Warner Losh wrote:
> : >A comment: this is a 18GB IBM 7200 RPM disk and i noticed it tends
> : >to become very hot compared to other disks when mounted in the
> : >same machine (on a removable frame). Do others have the same
> : >experience ?
>
> Yes. They run very hot. I had to steal an old powersupply fan and
> mount it in front of the drive to get it to run at a reasonable
> temperature. W/o the fan, it was running at 58C or so. With the fan
> it runs at 39C or so. I've included the script that I use to find
> this information out. Ken Merry sent it to me. It works on some IBM
> drives.
>
> Warner
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> TEMPC=`camcontrol cmd -v -n da -u 0 -c "4D 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 20 0" -i 32 "s9 i1"`
>
> TEMPF=`echo " 2 k $TEMPC 9 * 5 / 32 + p" | dc`
>
> echo "The temperature is: $TEMPF F $TEMPC C"
Hmm, wonder if one can get that info from their ATA disks as well...
-Søren
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