temperature of external disk

[Michael Hipp]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 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...

Will smartmontools do this?

Michael