Suggestion - remap HDD sensor

[rodti]

Hi there,

Firstly I love this product and it's been a great help, thanks very much for your efforts!

One thing I'd find really useful (and I'm sure others would too) would be to remap another sensor so the system thinks it's the HDD.

On 2009/10/11 iMacs where the hard drive has been replaced with another make or with an SSD the original HDD temp sensor can't be used, and while your app does pull the SMART temperature straight from the drive some SSDs (such as OCZ) don't provide a SMART temperature.

Using the temperature from another sensor, for example LCD proximity, and providing it to the system as the HDD temperature would presumably allow you to set all fans to Auto and allow Apple's SMC fan profile to take care of things like a stock machine?

[Steven]

Hi,

But there a way of doing that? I'm no aware of any

[rodti]

HDD Fan Control seems to have that functionality, but has a hideously overcomplicated interface and is really expensive!

[rodti]

Another idea, and I'm just thinking out loud here, is to find out what the original Apple profile was and use those values. Is there any way to find out the min/max per sensor that the original Apple profile for a machine uses?

[Steven]

HDD Fan Control does pretty the same thing as sensor-based control in MFC.
http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control-help

Another idea, and I'm just thinking out loud here, is to find out what the original Apple profile was and use those values. Is there any way to find out the min/max per sensor that the original Apple profile for a machine uses?

Not possible. A fortiori when you change a drive to another model.