> Well, I'm not an expert on hard drive thermal sensors, but I'll make some > educated guesses. First of all, all the G5's I'm familiar with have two > onboard SATA controllers and drive bays, which leads me to conclude you're > using a add-on PCI/PCIe/PCI-X SATA controller. My guess would be that the > add-on SATA card you're using doesn't have the necessary circuitry (or maybe > Hardware Monitor just doesn't recognize it) to pass on temperature data to > the OS. Is the WD 250 connected to the onboard SATA or the add-on card? What > brand of SATA controller are you using in the G5? Perhaps the manufacturer > has a driver or application which will let you monitor the HD temps. > > Eric > The onboard HDDs are 1 WD 250 and one Seagate 250. The Hitachi 2TB is on a Seritek 1V4 card which displays S.M.A.R.T status.
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