Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2430 mails)

[Adam Schrotenboer <adam@xxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>     How accurate are the SMART Attribute 194 Temperatures? I ask 
> because I have 2 drives that are reporting at, or over, 160 C (161 C = 
> 321.8 F). However, the drives are just warm to the touch, not Hot at 
> all. If the drives were really hot enough to cook a roast, I would 
> expect the outside of the drive to be at least "hot to the touch". 
> With the case open, I can rest my hands on the driver without any 
> discomfort, all the while, smart is reporting:
>
> Apr 24 07:47:17 trinity smartd[3627]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage 
> Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 161 to 166
> Apr 24 07:47:17 trinity smartd[3627]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage 
> Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 166 to 161
>
>     Anybody looked into this issue, or is SMART just OUT SMARTING itself?
These are 'normalized' values, within the range of 0-255. If you want 
more useful information, you need to look at smartctl -a /dev/sda and 
look for the RAW column.