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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:26:07 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), luigi@info.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reading from bad disk ?
Message-ID:  <200003220726.IAA44014@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200003212318.QAA26473@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Mar 21, 2000 04:18:18 pm"

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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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