HDD SMART Temperature

[gzdenek]

My system is currently logging a few dozen errors every 24 hours along the lines of:

Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 72 to 73.

I checked my drives and they are not 158 degrees F. I ran HDDTemp and it reports 30 deg C which is much more reasonable.

I use logdigest to email me logs every day and would like to monitor the system temperature rather than ignore these errors.

Any advice where to look to correct this?

Thanks!

[tului]

I believe smartctl and smartd are a start for what you're looking for.(along with their configurations)

from the smartd manpage

-I ID
Ignore device Attribute ID when tracking changes in the Attribute values. ID must be a decimal integer in the range from 1 to 255. This Directive modifies the behavior of the '-p', '-u', and '-t' tracking Directives and has no effect without one of them.

This is useful, for example, if one of the device Attributes is the disk temperature (usually Attribute 194 or 231). It's annoying to get reports each time the temperature changes. This Directive may appear multiple times for a single device, if you want to ignore multiple Attributes.

[gzdenek]

In case anyone else was trying to figure this out, here is what I found. The smartd temperature reports are a not right for many drives. The number shown is actually a composite of several temperatures.

Several sources on the net people suggest -I 190 and -I 194 as you suggest. However I did find that the -w flag seems to track temperature changes more accurately so I ended up using -w 4,45,55. I believe this will only record changes >4 degrees, and log an alarm at 45. My full config ( /etc/smartd.conf) per drive is:

/dev/sda -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02||L/../../6/03) -I 190 -I 194 -w 4,45,55

I have it set to do a short test each day at 2AM and a long test Saturday at 3AM.

I found this article to be very helpful: Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART

Thanks for the help.

[henrymitchel]

@gzdenek

Thank you for taking the time to repost. I am having similar problems and found your info very helpful.