Re: Hard Drive temp?

[Frank Störzer <frank.stoerzer@web.de>]

Hi,

Am Samstag, 30. August 2008 23:18:55 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> My Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400 gets very, very hot in the hard drive-
> so hot that the keyboard above is uncomfortable to type on. I've gone
> through /proc/acpi but I cannot find the hard drive temp. Where
> should it be? It is possible that there is no hard drive temp sensor
> in a Dell laptop? The drive is a 7200RPM 80GB Seagate unit. Thanks in
> advance.

Have a look on the tools hddtemp or  smartmontools. Both could read the 
temperatur sensor, if S.M.A.R.T. gives access to it. The second tool 
could read all S.M.A.R.T. values.

Greetings

Frank