temperature of external disk

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Leon Goldstein wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> Anyone knows whether it is possible to read the temperature?
>>
> Spinrite 5 can display the temperature if the drive's firmware supports it.
>
Well, it looks impressing, judging by the testimonials. Still, one has
to boot from a CD to use it (besides not being free). I was hoping to be
able to monitor the temperature in a more or less continuous way, like
with hddtemp...

Thanks.
-- 
Jorge Almeida