S.M.A.R.T Won't Turn On

[rivey]

New temporary system that is working fine. Using it for Plex and backing up my accounting software.
System consists of the following,
FreeNAS 11.1-U6
Intel i5 CPU 661@3.33GHz
8Meg of Memory
4 8TB WD Red drives in a Z1 configuration
2 3TB WD Red drives in a striped configuration
1 SSD 120GB boot drive
1 SSD 240GB drive for Jails

And yes I know that the base system is far from what I should be using but money is tight and so I set this up as temporary and to help me learn freenas. When I have put enough money aside I will post a request to get advice on used equipment recommendations.

All drives seem to be working fine and the Plex setup has about 6.5TB of data.
Email works fine when tested and SMART and Scrubs have been setup.
When I go to Services and try to turn on S.M.A.R.T., is will not turn on but does not display any error message.

I have searched the forum but have not found anything what works. The only things I have found seem to only apply if you use a USB as a boot disk and that is not the case here. I will keep searching but so far have had not luck.

All I can figure is there must be a setting that I am missing. Is there a setting that tells the S.M.A.R.T or Scrubs tests to send reports or just a daily report?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

You didn't say what kind of HDD controller you are using. My best guess is that there is something in that which isn't playing fully nice with FreeNAS/smart, but please elaborate on what it is.

 

[rivey]

The motherboard is an older Asus motherboard, not a server board and the drives are connected to the on board sata ports.

 

[rivey]

You didn't say what kind of HDD controller you are using. My best guess is that there is something in that which isn't playing fully nice with FreeNAS/smart, but please elaborate on what it is.

I went into the bios of the motherboard reset S.M.A.R.T. from "auto" to "enabled". Did not make any difference.

 

[acquacow]

Do you have a usb thumb drive attached to the box that doesn't support SMART? I see that happen to lots of folks who boot from USB (not your particular issue).

I'd run smartctl against each drive individually and see which one is acting up and then disable smart on the drive that doesn't want to support it.

 

[rivey]

Do you have a usb thumb drive attached to the box that doesn't support SMART? I see that happen to lots of folks who boot from USB (not your particular issue).

I'd run smartctl against each drive individually and see which one is acting up and then disable smart on the drive that doesn't want to support it.

No USB drives on the system. Boot and Jail drives are SSD's.

I will run smartctl on the drives and see what happens.