I got a similar "problem": thirty space characters between the sata-disk's name and the colon before the temperature:
$ hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/hda: ST380011A: 27°C /dev/sda: ST3250820AS : 27°C
I supposed a faulty entry in my /etc/hddtemp.db, but everything is fine there...
I got a similar "problem": thirty space characters between the sata-disk's name and the colon before the temperature:
$ hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/sda
/dev/hda: ST380011A: 27°C
/dev/sda: ST3250820AS : 27°C
I supposed a faulty entry in my /etc/hddtemp.db, but everything is fine there...