temperature of external disk

[Leon Goldstein]

Jorge Almeida wrote:

>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?
>
>  
>
Spinrite 5 can display the temperature if the drive's firmware supports it.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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