simpleTemp.py

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:29 -0600, linas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:48:25AM +0100, Markus Demleitner was heard to remark:
> > 
> > I guess one should rather find the temperature sensor on that device
> > (unfortunately, I'm told it's not accessible as easily as the two SMU
> > sensors simpleTemp handles) and do a control loop for this sensor and
> > the hard disk temperature.
> 
> Should be accessible via "SMART" (Self-monitoring analysis and reporting
> technology) via smartd and smartmntools in Linux. The drive temperature
> is in there; unfortunately, it seems that its sometimes uncalibrated.
> 
> This is a purely user-space package, bt must run as root.

Apple uses a different mecanism, they have an i2c temperature sensor
stuckc on the drive that you can access through one of the i2c busses
attached to the SMU.

Ben.