On Mon January 14 2008 2:12:54 am you wrote:
> Hi David, hi Carren,
Hi Jean :-)
> Note: lm-sensors doesn't have anything to do with hard-disk drive
> temperature. HDD temperature is retrieved through SMART and we don't
> have any support for that.
I didn't realise that but it's really interesting, because, until I got
lmsensors working correctly, I couldn't get my hdd temp to show up in
Gkrellm. Once I got the sensors sorted the hdd temp automatically showed up -
prior to that it wasn't reading correctly and was always showing 0C.
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:37:32 -0700, David Hubbard wrote:
> > The coretemp readings come from a digital temperature sensor inside
> > the processor. The processor provides PCI device entries which access
> > these internal sensors.
>
> Note: while this is true of AMD CPUs (k8temp is a PCI driver) this
> isn't how Intel CPUs work. The coretemp driver reads the temperature
> values from MSRs (model-specific registers) i.e. from the CPU directly.
So does that make the coretemp values more accurate/reliable than the
thermal_zone temps?
~Carren
