Package: hddtemp Version: 0.3-beta15-45 Severity: normal The default init script for hddtemp checks both sg? and sd?. When sda (which is the same disk as sg0 on my system) is sleeping, hddtemp /dev/sda reports that the disk is sleeping; but hddtemp /dev/sg0 spins up the disk. So this default configuration causes all drives to spin up whenever sensors-applet connects to the daemon.
Solutions I can think of: spun-down detection for generic drives (is this even possible?); identify which non-generic devices /dev/sg? correspond to; or do not check generic devices by default. This took me a day to figure out; I've changed /etc/default/hddtemp to say: # Skip /dev/sg?. DISKS="/dev/hd? /dev/sr? /dev/sd?" And now my unused drive stays spun down. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc7 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hddtemp depends on: ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.141 Debian Configuration Management Sy ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip hddtemp recommends no packages. Versions of packages hddtemp suggests: pn ksensors <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: * hddtemp/SUID_bit: false * hddtemp/interface: 127.0.0.1 * hddtemp/syslog: 0 * hddtemp/daemon: true * hddtemp/port: 7634 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
