On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:51:55PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:55:13PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> > > Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi> writes:
> > > > How should I read these values, i.e. what is the current temperature
> > > > (preferably in Celcius)?
> > > 
> > > There's no standard mapping. The range is 0-255 and higher values are
> > 
> > 	so how does windows know what the actual temperature is then?
> > A table with drives and mappings?  If so, that table should be added to
> > atactl so it can spit out more meaningful values.
> 
> Does Windows manage to report this without vendor-supplied tools? I
> haven't looked closely at a Windows box in years.
> 
> (each SMART value also has 8 bytes of "vendor specific data". It's
> also possible that some part of that has been pseudo-standardized as real
> temperature, but I haven't found any evidence of that)