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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 17, 2022 12:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ed Trumbull <EdT@as2inc.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de <smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [smartmontools-support] WD WD101EFBX drive has insane temperatures?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Ed Trumbull wrote:<br>
> I have a WD 10TB drive connected to a megaraid controller housed on a <br>
> Supermicro motherboard.<br>
> The system is running the Proxmox VE version 7.2-7 kernel<br>
> (root@kvm-00:~# uname -a<br>
> Linux kvm-00 5.15.39-3-pve #2 SMP PVE 5.15.39-3 (Wed, 27 Jul 2022 <br>
> 13:45:39 +0200) x86_64 GNU/Linux)<br>
><br>
> This drive has been reporting "peculiar" temperatures to the syslog:<br>
><br>
> Aug 17 08:19:04 kvm-00 smartd[1401]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], state written to <br>
> /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD101EFBX_68B0AN0-VCJ2P3WP.ata.state<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21], type changed from 'megaraid,21' to 'sat+megaraid,21'<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], opened<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], WDC WD101EFBX-68B0AN0, S/N:VCJ2P3WP, <br>
> WWN:5-000cca-0b0dd670d, FW:85.00A85, 10.0 TB<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], not found in smartd database.<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], not capable of SMART Health Status check<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], no ATA CHECK POWER STATUS support, ignoring <br>
> -n Directive<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:03 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], state read from <br>
> /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD101EFBX_68B0AN0-VCJ2P3WP.ata.state<br>
> Aug 17 08:25:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], state written to <br>
> /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.WDC_WD101EFBX_68B0AN0-VCJ2P3WP.ata.state<br>
> Aug 17 08:55:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 <br>
> Temperature_Celsius changed from 240 to 250<br>
> Aug 17 09:25:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 <br>
> Temperature_Celsius changed from 250 to 232<br>
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This is normal, please see:<br>
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> Aug 17 09:55:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 <br>
> Temperature_Celsius changed from 232 to 4<br>
> Aug 17 10:25:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 <br>
> Temperature_Celsius changed from 4 to 224<br>
> Aug 17 10:55:04 kvm-00 smartd[1389]: Device: /dev/bus/0 <br>
> [megaraid_disk_21] [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 <br>
> Temperature_Celsius changed from 224 to 4<br>
><br>
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These flipping values look strange. Add '-r 194' to smartd.conf to see <br>
corresponding raw values (usually temperature in celsius) also.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Christian<br>
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