Last access external hdd

Hello,
I have a WD-Ultra HDD that I recently formated as Mac OS Extended (journaled). If it's journaled, there shoud be a way to obtain the log of times the HDD was accessed. Finder, from what I can see, only gives time created and last modified. Is there a bash command to obtain what I want?
Thanks.

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