How the hell do ya get this thing to display it? ......other then that great work evoX team

Add

HD <Temp3>

Somewhere in a text line in the ini file what goes with your skin

Here is my entire line I have in mine.

Text = 80,31,1,0xAF00FF,0,"<CrLf> MB <Temp1> CPU <Temp2>
HD <Temp3>"

Mine comes up with N/A under the settings menu and also if I have it shown up on my skin.

My HDD is a WD120Gb is that's of any help
The Xbox is v1.0

I have a WD 120 drive and if claims the temp is 32 degrees F

your hard drive has to have the S.M.A.R.T. feature, check to see if your harddrive has this feature.

Maybe this line needs to be changed for different HD's.
HDD_Temp_ID = 194

Thanks prplehz i added that line to my skin and all that happens is now under the MB temp theres the line HD N/A ? i have a 60 WD in my xbox i i do belive its only a year old.....how do you check to see if it has smart?

add this line in your evox.ini under [MISC]

EnableSMART = Yes

and then use <Temp3> in your skin file.

S.M.A.R.T
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

I found limited info about this, including some of these links:

http://support.wdc.com/dlg/disclaim.asp

QUOTE

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a diagnostic method originally developed by IBM for their mainframe drives to give advanced warning of drive failures. Based on this diagnostic Compaq announced a diagnostic which operated with a number of different disk drive manufacturers. These products were submitted to the ATA/IDE standards committees and the resulting standard was named S.M.A.R.T. Today all major hard disk drive manufacturers support S.M.A.R.T., including IBM, Western Digital, Maxtor, Quantum, Seagate, and Fujitsu.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDr...itePaper_07.htm

It seems that all drives by now should have this included, maybe we can get team evox to release some info about the HDD_Temp_ID line.

BTW, the HDD TEMP shows up fine for my Maxtor 160gig

7200 rpm, 8meg cache, 47C

This post has been edited by heinrich: Sep 16 2003, 04:52 PM

my 120GB Samsung (5400rpm) shows around 260 F.
..that seems a little hot.

obviously something needs to be adjusted.

I didn't even know HDs had a built in temp probe. cool stuff!

WTF!!!! mine is 3 degrees celcius, did i do something wrong??? btw its the OEM HDD

Maybe we should compile some sort of list of xbox hardware version, hdd manufacturer & part number (maybe manufacturing date too?) just to get some sort of idea as to what this is? of course, a little more info about HDD_Temp_ID would help

all my info except hdd part # which is WD800BB-00CAA1 and mfg date, Oct. 16, 2002, is listed in my sig.

btw, my <Temp3> shows N/A.

**Edit

Just a follow up. I just decided now to mess around with the HDD_Temp_ID value of 194...

with a value of 1, I get 0.0 C, 3 I get 191.0 C... if I find any other interesting values, I'll post my findings...

This post has been edited by toyato89: Sep 16 2003, 10:17 PM

Alright, I promised results...

Here's what I have so far... yeah I know it isn't much, but it's a start. Its getting pretty damn boring changing a number, opening a program, IGR, seeing the new value, repeat as necessary... so I only tested up to 23. Note, not all numbers 1-23 are listed in the list, any that aren't listed showed N/A as a result.

1st column = HDD_Temp_ID value, 2nd column = <Temp3> result

1 - 0.0
3 - 191.0
4 - 116.0
5 - 0.0
7 - 0.0
9 - 34.0
11 - 0.0
12 - 116.0

Out of all that, my only promising bit of data is the value of 9 showing 34.0 C initially. To test this the only why I know how other than a thermometer, I started playing Time Splitters 2, which is on the HDD, and then I IGR'd back to the dash and the temp didn't change at all. Mind you I only played it for a couple minutes, but still, the HDD was in use, therefore generating heat.

Well, just having let it sit for a few minutes trying other values and typing this post, I went back to 9 from another value just to see if something changed, and voila! 35.0 C. By touching the top of the drive, it feels warm, but I can't be 100% certain about 35 C.

I left the Xbox off over dinner, and I just came back now and turned it on. Still shows 35 C even after having been off for 30 minutes or so. To me that doesn't look too promising, but I know nothing about the heat dissipation inside an Xbox, or a HDD either for that matter.

I know from watching the MB & CPU temps, they go up from 35 & 40 (respectively) right away as soon as I turn on the box and then sit at about 45 & 50 (respectively) after having been on a while or having played a game.

For those of you who had this work right away with the value of 194 and a reasonable <Temp3> output, does the temp fluctuate slowly? Rapidly? At all? Or does it just stay constant no matter what you're putting the HDD through?

I guess that's all for now. If anyone knows more about this, by all means...

Thanks!

This post has been edited by toyato89: Sep 17 2003, 12:01 AM