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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #648

Comment 648 for bug 59695

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:16 +0000, hanciong wrote:
> helo. after I use smartctl command, there is no min/max temperature.
> here is the result:
>
> hanciong@hanciong-laptop:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep '(Load_Cycle_Count|Temperature)'
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 189 189 000 Old_age Always - 33392
> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 097 077 000 Old_age Always - 46
>
> look at the bottom line, there is only 46 (my laptop temperature now).
> there is no min/max temperature information. do you know why? my laptop
> is acer 4920. any suggestion is greatly appreciated.
>
 smartctl isn't supposed to be used for getting the hard disk temperature
unless I'm mistaken. Use hddtemp instead.
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Chow Loong Jin