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NAME

       hddtemp - Utility to monitor hard drive temperature

SYNOPSIS

       hddtemp [options] [type:]disk...

DESCRIPTION

       hddtemp  will  give  you  the temperature of your hard drive by reading
       Self-Monitoring  Analysis   and   Reporting   Technology   (S.M.A.R.T.)
       information  on  drives  that  support  this feature.  Only modern hard
       drives have a temperature sensor.  hddtemp supports reading  S.M.A.R.T.
       information  from  SCSI drives too.  hddtemp can work as simple command
       line tool or as a daemon.

       You can specify one or more device drive path, where each path  can  be
       prefixed  with  a type like PATA, SATA or SCSI to force hddtemp too use
       one of these type (because detection can fail).

OPTIONS

       The program follows the  usual  GNU  command  line  syntax,  with  long
       options  starting  with  two  dashes  (‘-’).   A  summary of options is
       included below.

       -b, --drivebase
              Display the database file that allows  hddtemp  to  recognize  a
              supported drive.

       -D, --debug
              Display  various S.M.A.R.T. fields and their values.  Useful for
              finding a value that seems to match the  temperature  and/or  to
              send a report.  (done for every drive supplied)

       -d, --daemon
              Execute hddtemp in TCP/IP daemon mode (port 7634 by default).

       -f, --file=file
              Specify the database file to use.

       -F, --foreground
              Don’t  fork  into  the  background even in daemon mode.  This is
              useful when running under a process supervisor.

       -l, --listen=addr
              Listen on a specific address.  addr is  a  string  containing  a
              host  name  or  a numeric host address string.  The numeric host
              address string is a dotted-decimal IPv4 address or an  IPv6  hex
              address.

       -n, --numeric
              Print only the temperature (without the unit).

       -p, --port=#
              Port number to listen to (in TCP/IP daemon mode).

       -s, --separator=char
              Separator  to  use  between fields (in TCP/IP daemon mode).  The
              default separator is ‘|’.

       -S, --syslog=s
              Switch to daemon mode and log temperatures  to  syslog  every  s
              seconds.

       -q, --quiet
              Don’t check if the drive is supported.

       -u, --units=C|F
              Force output temperature either in Celsius or Fahrenheit.0

       -v, --version
              Display hddtemp version number.

       -w, --wake-up
              Wake-up the drive if needed (ATA drives only).

       -4     Listen on IPv4 sockets only.

       -6     Listen on IPv6 sockets only.

DRIVE DATABASE

       If  you  know  your  drive  has  a  temperature  sensor but it is being
       reported unsupported, tell me which model and which manufacturer it is,
       and/or  just  add  a  new  entry  in  /etc/hddtemp.db.   Each  line  of
       hddtemp.db is either a comment, a blank line or a line containing:

       - a regular expression that allow hddtemp to recognize a drive or a
              set of drives from its model name or from a generic model name,

       - a value (ATTRIBUTE_ID from S.M.A.R.T.),

       - a C or an F to set the unit to Celsius or Fahrenheit,

       - a description.

       Feedback is welcome (see the REPORT section below).

TCP/IP DAEMON MODE

       Example of type forcing:

       # hddtemp SATA:/dev/sda PATA:/dev/hda

       To test hddtemp in daemon mode, start it like this:

       # hddtemp -d /dev/hd[abcd]

       and use telnet or netcat (which is known as nc on some systems) to  get
       a reply:

       # netcat localhost 7634

       The  drive  database  is  read only once at startup, so hddtemp must be
       restarted if the database is updated for the changes to take effect.

REPORT

       As I receive a lot of reports, things must be clarified.  When  running
       hddtemp  with  debug  options,  hddtemp  will  show  sort  of a dump of
       S.M.A.R.T. data.  Each field corresponds to an information field.   The
       standard  field  for  drive temperature is 194.  But this is not always
       the case (mostly for older drives).  Even if your drive has  S.M.A.R.T.
       capabilities,  it  doesn’t  necessarily  mean  that  it  can report its
       temperature.  So, things must be determined through experimentation.

       So, you can try to guess which field by is  the  good  one  by  running
       hddtemp at regular intervals:

        - just after starting up your PC/server/station,

        - after opening a window (a physical window :),

        - after opening the case,

        - whatever you can think of...

       and  looking  for  a  field’s  value  that  would  increase or decrease
       depending on what effect you want to induce.  Be careful, fields 4,  9,
       and  12  are often reported to match a temperature field but after some
       investigation they do not.  But fields 194 (which is the standard field
       for temperature) and 231 are good candidates.

       Then, you can send me a report with outputs from ‘hddtemp --debug ...’,
       ‘smartctl’ or ‘hdparm -i  ...’,  and/or  add  an  entry  in  hddtemp.db
       yourself.

BUGS

       If hddtemp crashes (yes, it might) for some unknown reasons, look for a
       file named hddtemp.backtrace.<PID>.XXXXXX (where  XXXXXX  is  a  random
       number  generated at runtime) in /tmp.  Then, you can then send me this
       file and the hddtemp binary.  The backtrace functionality is  currently
       supported on i386 architectures only.

SEE ALSO

       smartctl(8), syslog(3), syslogd(8).

AUTHOR

       Emmanuel Varagnat (hddtemp@guzu.net).

       This   manual   page   was   originally   written   by  Aurelien  Jarno
       <aurel32@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be  used
       by others).

                                 July 21, 2003