Re: HDD temp sensors

2010-03-27 Thread Eric Volker
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:18 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I have a G5 PM Dual 2.7. It has three HDDs 1 WD 250 GB, 1 Seagate 250 GB and a Hitachi 2TB drive. The only drive that shows a tempurature sensor in Hardware Monitor is the WD 250. These drives are SATA. Do the

Re: HDD temp sensors

2010-03-27 Thread John Carmonne
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

Re: HDD temp sensors

2010-03-27 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Try getting one of those plugs where you plug it into the SATA port, and it splits it into 2 SATA ports. Maybe that'll work. Only thing is, where do you get one? I have heard of those a while back when I did some research on SATA drives when they were new... -- You received this message

Re: HDD temp sensors

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Mar 27, 2010, at 12:40 PM, John Carmonne wrote: 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

HDD temp sensors

2010-03-26 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I have a G5 PM Dual 2.7. It has three HDDs 1 WD 250 GB, 1 Seagate 250 GB and a Hitachi 2TB drive. The only drive that shows a tempurature sensor in Hardware Monitor is the WD 250. These drives are SATA. Do the other drives have sensors. I think every internal drive I have has