app-admin/hddtemp no longer reports hard drive temperatures on 2.6.20-series kernels due libata infrastructure changes which have revealed "fragile and wrong sense checks" within hddtemp itself. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581 Attached is a patch from upstream. It applies to hddtemp-0.3_beta15, I'm not sure about the earlier versions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 109237 [details, diff] hddtemp-0.3_beta15-satacmds.patch
Fixed in -r1. Thanks for the patch.