Hi, I've the same problem. The problem is that hddtemp always spins-up the harddrive when reading the temparerature from drive - although this is not (always?) necessary. For my harddrive I can use "smartctl" to read the harddrives temperature without spinning-up the drive.
To check this: Install the packages "smartmontools" and "hdparm". Then choose a harddrive that isn't going to be used in the next couple of minutes (in my case this is "/dev/sdc"). Then spin-down the drive: $ hdparm -Y /dev/sdc You can check the drive's status by using: $ hdparm -C /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: drive state is: standby Then use "smartctl" to read the drive's S.M.A.R.T. data (if enabled): $ smartctl -A /dev/sdc smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ #=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 ... 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 059 000 Old_age Always - 29 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 148 115 000 Old_age Always - 30 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2618972 ... Run now again: $ hdparm -C /dev/sdc In my case the drive is still idle. So it's defenitely a problem with hddtemp. -- hddtemp / conky make my hdds noisy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377263 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
