temperature of external disk

[Michael Hipp]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>>> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>>> Anyone knows whether it is possible to read the temperature?
>> Will smartmontools do this?
>>
> The man page for smartctl doesn't suggest what to do for external
> drives...
>  	$ smartctl -d scsi /dev/external_hd
>  	smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
>  	Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
>  	Smartctl open device: /dev/external_hd failed: No such device or address
> 
> (The device shows up in /dev)

No go:

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp
"As for USB and FireWire (ieee1394) disks and tape drives, the news is 
not good."

Better look elsewhere.

Michael