S.M.A.R.T service won't start after fresh upgrade to FreeNAS 11.1-U1 from 9.10.2-U6

[BetYourBottom]

The title is a rough overview of what's going on. I haven't dug into it to much because I don't know where to begin.

The one thing I've got right now is that an error pops up in console but I'm unsure of what it means exactly or how to fix it.

Code:

Feb 12 20:02:56 freenas smartd[19635]: Unable to register device /dev/da7 (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.

It seems to take issue with /dev/da7 which is a flash drive part of the boot mirror for FreeNAS itself, but it doesn't seem to complain about da6 which is an identical model.

 

[nightshade00013]

Flash drive may have went bad. Pull one out and see if it will boot. If not try the other.

 

[DrKK]

show us the result of

Code:

camcontrol devlist

That will tell us what da7 is, physically.

 

[DrKK]

Ugh, sorry, I see you included that information above.

Since that's a mirror of the boot device,
you should be able to pop it out. When you do that, does smart service start normally?

 

[Stefan Krieger]

I had this problem and I resolved it by turning off ‘enable smart’ for the USB drives. Seems to be a bug with 11.1.

 

[Johnnie Black]

Check if SMART is enable for one or more USB devices, like your boot device, go to Storage -> View Disks, click on it/them and disable SMART, you should now be able to start the SMART service.

 

[BetYourBottom]

I turned off SMART on both USB drives in the mirror and it immediately activated SMART. On stopping SMART and restarting it, the error doesn't come up and the service starts without issue.

Seems 11.1 doesn't particularly like SMART being enabled for USB drives.

 

[disbell]

Thanks! Resolved here too.

 

[Joshua D. McGee]

Check if SMART is enable for one or more USB devices, like your boot device, go to Storage -> View Disks, click on it/them and disable SMART, you should now be able to start the SMART service.

This worked form me also. Thanks Johnnie Black

 

[Pimmp]

Useful thread, thank you so much

 

[Heigre]

I had this problem and I resolved it by turning off ‘enable smart’ for the USB drives. Seems to be a bug with 11.1.

Resolved the issue here as well, thanks!

 

[hiro5id]

YAY! I'm so glad I stumbled on this thread. it solved my problem for starting SMART as well.

 

[SoggyF]

I've been pulling teeth for over a month. THANK YOU!!!

 

[ashori]

Worked like a charm!

 

[RAYMOND BIGIO]

same problem here. thanks for the help.:)

 

[BottomsUp]

disabling USB worked. thanks

 

[helios_x]

THX
Worked like a charm.

 

[bobc47]

i had this problem after upgrading to 11.1 and turning off smart monitoring for the mirrored USB boot drives did the trick.

Thanks for the hint!

 

[splaisan]

my disks are all SATA (not USB) so this is not the reason why it now fails and it used to work with previous version of FN.
I have a config using 12x 2TB disks (da1 to 12) on a Dell server and we decided to make each disk a virtual disk and let FN merge them all into a VD. The disk da0 is a separate RAID pair of SATA disk hosting the system.
This may be a part of the reason behind the SMART lost in this new version.
Can I live with this error message and just ignore it (loosing of course the advantage of SMART)?
Thanks for any advice

[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/oCsG0re.png)

 

[beltet]

I had this problem and I resolved it by turning off ‘enable smart’ for the USB drives. Seems to be a bug with 11.1.

This worked for me aswell! Thanks Stefan!