temperature of external disk

[Jorge Almeida]

I have an IDE Maxtor HD in an external Conceptronic case, with firewire
conexion. The problem is: the case is hot. Not burning hot, but hot. I
would like to know the temperature of the disk inside, but how? hddtemp
is supposed to support SCSI disks now, but of course this is not a real
SCSI. To complicate things a little (maybe), the disk has an encrypted
partition (with LUKS). So, I have /dev/mapper/external_hd1 and
/dev/external_hd. I suppose the latter is the one that matters, from a
monitoring viewpoint.

Anyone knows whether it is possible to read the temperature?

-- 
Jorge Almeida