Quote Originally Posted by Denmike View Post
HDDTemp is not working via USB. Only pata, sata, scsi and sas interfaces are supported, but only directly.

For Seagate Free Agent (using smartctl in linux):
# smartctl -d sat /dev/sdb --all -T permissive

for me:
smartctl -d sat /dev/sdb --all -T permissive | grep 194 | cut -d: -f3 | awk '{print $11}'

prints the disk temperature