Harddrive temp

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I have a possible bad harddrive..It is a maxtor and I am running
seatools..I get an error message that the drive is abovetemp 253
degrees. What does this mean? I can't find any information about
what is normal.
 
MariaL said:
I have a possible bad harddrive..It is a maxtor and I am running
seatools..I get an error message that the drive is abovetemp 253
degrees. What does this mean? I can't find any information about
what is normal.
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Probably that the sensor is bad, which would not make me confident in
the drive. Backup data from that drive *now*.
 
I have a possible bad harddrive..It is a maxtor and I am running
seatools..I get an error message that the drive is abovetemp 253
degrees. What does this mean? I can't find any information about
what is normal.
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It might mean you need to check it with Maxtor's software
instead of Seagate's.
 
MariaL said:
I have a possible bad harddrive..It is a maxtor and I am running
seatools..I get an error message that the drive is abovetemp 253
degrees. What does this mean? I can't find any information about
what is normal.
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Well, do you pull back a blistered finger when you press it onto the
hard drive? Not likely. The software is screwed up, you are telling it
to read the wrong sensor, it doesn't know how to read that sensor, it
has an invalid lookup table for that sensor or detected its type
incorrectly, or the sensor doesn't work. If it was indeed 253 degrees
(either Fahrenheit or Celsius which you didn't mention), you could
definitely tell by touch.
 
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Well, do you pull back a blistered finger when you press it onto
the hard drive? Not likely. The software is screwed up, you are
telling it to read the wrong sensor, it doesn't know how to read
that sensor, it has an invalid lookup table for that sensor or
detected its type incorrectly, or the sensor doesn't work. If it
was indeed 253 degrees (either Fahrenheit or Celsius which you
didn't mention), you could definitely tell by touch.
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I am giving 2:1 odds that it isn't Celsius. Any takers?
 
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I am giving 2:1 odds that it isn't Celsius. Any takers?
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I'll take that. It's clearly a bad sensor. 253 is kinda a funny
number, tho', I'd expect a zero or a 255.
 
It might mean you need to check it with Maxtor's software
instead of Seagate's.
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Well actually the seatools is now used instead of Maxtor's tools per
their website. The question is mood, the harddrive is toast, it
crashed, in the garbage can right now.
 
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