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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon kasbert

SMART temperature readout from an external?

Open 9jkh opened this issue 10 years ago • 8 comments

Thanks for the work on this. Just installed the 0.1, which appears to be working on at least one of my EHDs. Would like to see the temp data. Is there any way to see that?

Thanks

9jkh avatar Dec 16 '14 16:12 9jkh

There are applications for showing system stats. Use Google. Seems that nowadays most are not free. Earlier I used an old version of iStat. Someone has mentioned DriveDx.

For command line, install smartmontools and use utility called smartctl.

kasbert avatar Dec 16 '14 19:12 kasbert

Thanks very much. When I asked this question, it hadn't occurred to me that I needed to have the SATSMART driver also installed on the external volume where I wanted to see the temperature. Now that I have, all three, the old iStat widget, iStat Menus and Hardware Monitor, are displaying the temps at the external. In this case, that is a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB ST1000DM005/HD103SJ in an OWC enclosure.

Being able to monitor the temps at the external is very cool! Terrific program! Thanks so much for this!

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9jkh avatar Dec 16 '14 22:12 9jkh

@9jkh you mean the version 0.10? Run this version in Yosemite now and the sign problem is solved?

I use ver.0.8 and all my used drives are supported - but if the sign problem for 0.10 are solved, I will upgrade them.

I use the old iStat widget too. For drives I have installed and use favored DriveDX - and use SMARTreporter too (both from AppStore).

macuserguru avatar Dec 17 '14 07:12 macuserguru

I'm running the 0.10 on 10.8.5. Completely new to this, so no idea what the different releases mean.

@Kasbert: was it necessary to install the driver on the external volumes as well? Before I did that, I was seeing those drives as "verified" at Disk Utility on the internal, indicating that SMART data was coming from them, but there were no temperature readouts until the driver was cloned over to those EHDs. Something tells me that perhaps this shouldn't have been necessary.

9jkh avatar Dec 17 '14 12:12 9jkh

Update: with much regret had to uninstall all of it. It was causing massive, random instability, hangs and freezing when daisy chained EHDs were opened. 10.8.5/ SATSMART 0.10

Would still like to be able to use it. Would some earlier release not cause these issues?

9jkh avatar Dec 17 '14 17:12 9jkh

I am sorry to hear that. Version 0.8 somewhat different, would you try that ?

kasbert avatar Dec 18 '14 06:12 kasbert

Tried the 0.80, now uninstalled. Appeared to be working fine for about 30-40 minutes, with 3 drives daisy-chained and open, then, suddenly, everything started freezing. Finder became almost completely useless. Had to do a hard shutdown.

Think I will have to give up on this. The driver is causing too much system instability.

9jkh avatar Dec 19 '14 15:12 9jkh

under Yosemite 0.8 works well

macuserguru avatar Dec 19 '14 16:12 macuserguru