[plug] hot freeze - not a contradiction in terms

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:52 +0900, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:34, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > I suspect the heat is causing disc problems and perhaps my box is not
> > ventilated well enough, but I can't find anything in
> > /var/log/messages at the time the latest lock-up happened.  (Aside:
> > you may recall that I reported problems with these discs before in
> > that the filesystem has become read-only without warning)
> >
> > Just what might I be seeing here, do you think?  Where might I look
> > to get a better understanding?
> 
> If you are suspecting heat-related problems, I guess the first step if 
> you haven't already done it is to install hddtemp and turn on its 
> syslog facility to see what sort of temperatures we're actually talking 
> about.
> 
> Depending on what your hardware supports, there are a few other heat 
> sensor packages to install to monitor various components.

I have smartmontools installed but unfortunately I get "device does not
support SMART" and "device does not support self-test logging", etc.
Since my drives are scsi, I tried another tool "safte-monitor" for
SAF-TE capable enclosures (SCSI Accessible Fault Tolerant Enclosures),
but also hit a brick wall with this message "No SAF-TE devices present"
Then I tried "scsirastools" and it showed one scsi drive had 31 grown
defects, but that utility doesn't log temperatures :-(  I've come up
against blank, then.

Gavin