Disks are not showing up in GUI

blooshades · Monday at 02:47

Hi,

Novice here, not sure why several disks are not appearing in the GUI. When I go to node>disks it will sit there and spin for a bit and eventually error out with 'connection failure'

The disks do show up sda - sdg:

Code:

 root@prox1:~# lsblk
NAME               MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda                  8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk
sdb                  8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk
sdc                  8:32   0   1.8T  0 disk
sdd                  8:48   0   1.8T  0 disk
sde                  8:64   0   1.8T  0 disk
sdf                  8:80   0   1.8T  0 disk
sdg                  8:96   0   1.8T  0 disk
sdh                  8:112  0 119.2G  0 disk
├─sdh1               8:113  0  1007K  0 part
├─sdh2               8:114  0     1G  0 part /boot/efi
└─sdh3               8:115  0 118.2G  0 part
  ├─pve-swap       252:0    0     8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root       252:1    0  39.6G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta 252:2    0     1G  0 lvm 
  │ └─pve-data     252:4    0  53.9G  0 lvm 
  └─pve-data_tdata 252:3    0  53.9G  0 lvm 
    └─pve-data     252:4    0  53.9G  0 lvm

This a fresh install of 8.3.0 onto an MSI z87-GD65 GAMING motherboard with an Intel 4770K and 16GB of RAM

some more detail:

Code:

root@prox1:~# fdisk -x
Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F7CB986E-71DE-6C4F-B290-D0B0F88A3752
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdb: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A0F7C98F-1DDF-0641-965E-ACF745FF73A6
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdc: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 962FFD0B-BA83-B84F-9011-C16001920376
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdd: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7E744F60-60D3-9B4C-B3E7-4B2E206D738F
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sde: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: ST2000DM001-1CH1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F34C2991-6263-FA44-8F99-A4D9E52E5089
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdf: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5365FB9A-87BF-B44E-9DDA-16A398E519B5
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdg: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Hitachi HUA72302
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 87F42C85-ADD6-3A45-8FF8-443C77F2A5FE
First usable LBA: 2048
Last usable LBA: 3907029134
Alternative LBA: 3907029167
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33


Disk /dev/sdh: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 840
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DE9D556D-8750-41BC-8813-AB79F11ADBCB
First usable LBA: 34
Last usable LBA: 250069646
Alternative LBA: 250069679
Partition entries starting LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128
Partition entries ending LBA: 33

Device       Start       End   Sectors Type-UUID                            UUID                                 Name Attrs
/dev/sdh1       34      2047      2014 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649 8DF66A90-64C0-400F-BC80-44FCF3F564FC     
/dev/sdh2     2048   2099199   2097152 C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B CD23C5F2-AD4E-43B7-A0B4-8F6EB54B3405     
/dev/sdh3  2099200 250069646 247970447 E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928 164B5CB2-79E7-4254-B381-A6CA7B9BF987     


Disk /dev/mapper/pve-swap: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/pve-root: 39.56 GiB, 42475716608 bytes, 82960384 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Thanks for any insights!

mariol · Monday at 12:14

Hello and welcome to the Proxmox community

.

Let the livelogger run while you click on “Disks” in the WebUI. Maybe we can see more there:

Code:

journalctl -f

blooshades · Monday at 16:56

mariol said:
Hello and welcome to the Proxmox community .

Let the livelogger run while you click on “Disks” in the WebUI. Maybe we can see more there:

Code:

journalctl -f

Hi Mario,

Thanks for the reply,

The 'communication failure' error occured around the time of this output:

Code:

Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Full output:

Code:

root@prox1:~# journalctl -f
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Listening on gpg-agent-ssh.socket - GnuPG cryptographic agent (ssh-agent emulation).
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Listening on gpg-agent.socket - GnuPG cryptographic agent and passphrase cache.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Reached target sockets.target - Sockets.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Reached target basic.target - Basic System.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Reached target default.target - Main User Target.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1805]: Startup finished in 100ms.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1]: Started user@0.service - User Manager for UID 0.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 systemd[1]: Started session-1.scope - Session 1 of User root.
Mar 24 08:52:00 prox1 login[1823]: ROOT LOGIN  on '/dev/pts/0'
Mar 24 08:52:03 prox1 pvestatd[1688]: status update time (22.209 seconds)
Mar 24 08:52:35 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 08:52:35 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdf, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 08:52:35 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], opened
Mar 24 08:52:35 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YGH8HE9D, WWN:5-000cca-224d1f464, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 08:52:35 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], opened
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, S/N:S1ANNEAD532510X, WWN:5-002538-55034c2fb, FW:DXM05B0Q, 128 GB
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Samsung based SSDs
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Monitoring 7 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices
Mar 24 08:52:38 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 176 to 171
Mar 24 08:52:42 prox1 chronyd[1495]: Selected source 162.159.200.1 (2.debian.pool.ntp.org)
Mar 24 08:52:43 prox1 chronyd[1495]: Source 23.150.41.122 replaced with 23.111.186.186 (2.debian.pool.ntp.org)
Mar 24 08:52:57 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Failed to start smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Reached target multi-user.target - Multi-User System.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Reached target graphical.target - Graphical Interface.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Starting systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service - Record Runlevel Change in UTMP...
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Finished systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service - Record Runlevel Change in UTMP.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Startup finished in 2.844s (kernel) + 1min 46.030s (userspace) = 1min 48.874s.

mariol · Monday at 17:35

Please try the following: Stop Smartmoontool, then make sure that the service is really stopped. Once it is stopped, start it again.

Code:

systemctl stop smartmontools.service

systemctl status smartmontools.service

systemctl start smartmontools.service

First question: Did that work?
Second question: Does the behavior change in the WebUI?

blooshades · 2025-03-25T04:39:10+0100

mariol said:
Please try the following: Stop Smartmoontool, then make sure that the service is really stopped. Once it is stopped, start it again.

Code:

systemctl stop smartmontools.service systemctl status smartmontools.service systemctl start smartmontools.service

First question: Did that work?
Second question: Does the behavior change in the WebUI?

It does not seem to have worked, and the behavior in the GUI did not change, here is all outputs:

Code:

root@prox1:~# systemctl stop smartmontools.service


root@prox1:~# systemctl status smartmontools.service
× smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smartmontools.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2025-03-24 08:53:09 PDT; 11h ago
       Docs: man:smartd(8)
             man:smartd.conf(5)
    Process: 1343 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd -n $smartd_opts (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 1343 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
     Status: "Checking 7 devices ..."
        CPU: 57ms

Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, S/N:S1ANNEAD532510X, WWN:5-002538-55034c2fb, FW:DXM05B0Q, 128 GB
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Samsung based SSDs
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 08:52:36 prox1 smartd[1343]: Monitoring 7 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices
Mar 24 08:52:38 prox1 smartd[1343]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 176 to 171
Mar 24 08:52:57 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 24 08:53:09 prox1 systemd[1]: Failed to start smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.


root@prox1:~# systemctl start smartmontools.service
Job for smartmontools.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status smartmontools.service" and "journalctl -xeu smartmontools.service" for details.

=====================================================================================================

root@prox1:~# systemctl status smartmontools.service
× smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smartmontools.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2025-03-24 20:18:38 PDT; 7min ago
       Docs: man:smartd(8)
             man:smartd.conf(5)
    Process: 109565 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd -n $smartd_opts (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 109565 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
     Status: "Checking 7 devices ..."
        CPU: 52ms

Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, S/N:S1ANNEAD532510X, WWN:5-002538-55034c2fb, FW:DXM05B0Q, 128 GB
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Samsung based SSDs
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Monitoring 7 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices
Mar 24 20:18:27 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 24 20:18:38 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 24 20:18:38 prox1 systemd[1]: Failed to start smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.

===========================================================================================================

root@prox1:~# journalctl -xeu smartmontools.service
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a' Directive on line 21 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sda, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YFHGEE3A, WWN:5-000cca-223d4a716, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:16:57 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 20:16:58 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:16:58 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdb, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:16:58 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:16:58 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YGHHARPA, WWN:5-000cca-224d5115b, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:16:58 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 20:16:59 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:16:59 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdc, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:16:59 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:16:59 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YGHGZ6KA, WWN:5-000cca-224d4e61c, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:16:59 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdd, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YFHHH9XA, WWN:5-000cca-223d52294, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sde, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], ST2000DM001-1CH164, S/N:Z1E3KBF4, WWN:5-000c50-0504475d5, FW:CC26, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:17:00 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdf, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], Hitachi HUA723020ALA641, S/N:YGH8HE9D, WWN:5-000cca-224d1f464, FW:MK7OA840, 2.00 TB
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], opened
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, S/N:S1ANNEAD532510X, WWN:5-002538-55034c2fb, FW:DXM05B0Q, 128 GB
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], found in smartd database 7.3/5319: Samsung based SSDs
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], can't monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Mar 24 20:18:06 prox1 smartd[109565]: Monitoring 7 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices
Mar 24 20:18:27 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 24 20:18:38 prox1 systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
░░
░░ The unit smartmontools.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'timeout'.
Mar 24 20:18:38 prox1 systemd[1]: Failed to start smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit smartmontools.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit smartmontools.service has finished with a failure.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 720 and the job result is failed.
lines 78-133/133 (END)

I rebooted the machine and ran through this again with pretty much the same results.

mariol · 2025-03-25T09:52:10+0100

Thanks for the output. Could it be that your drives are connected externally via USB, for example? Perhaps a special case?

blooshades · 2025-03-25T14:59:10+0100

mariol said:
Thanks for the output. Could it be that your drives are connected externally via USB, for example? Perhaps a special case?

No these are all connected to the onboard sata interfaces. I suppose I'll try just connecting them one at a time and see if that makes a difference.

I'll point out that when installing proxmox, all of the drives did appear as options to install to.

mariol · 2025-03-25T15:07:41+0100

No these are all connected to the onboard sata interfaces. I suppose I'll try just connecting them one at a time and see if that makes a difference.

OK, sounds good.
Also take a look at the smart values of the drives, maybe there is a problem there. After Smartd times out, I hope the manual check works with the drives.

Code:

smartctl -a /dev/disk/by-id/<drivename>

I'll point out that when installing proxmox, all of the drives did appear as options to install to.

Yes, that's okay, there are no restrictions.

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