How to SMART enabled for a proxmox install on a USB drive

[jebarpg]

I have a usb drive attached the my system and it is what I installed proxmox on as opposed to the standard SATA ssd/hdd connection (there is no SSD or HDD installed on the system). Now when I check to see if SMART is passing or not it says UNKNOWN. Is there some configuration I need to do in order for proxmox to pass the SMART information of the attached USB it is installed on?

This is the current error I am getting:

/dev/sda: Unknown USB bridge [0x2174:0x2100 (0x100)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.

 

[Kingneutron]

This is not a proxmox-specific question. Do a search on the error, you'll have to do some experimenting with SMART commands - and be advised that the drive may not support SMART.

 

[jebarpg]

This is not a proxmox-specific question. Do a search on the error, you'll have to do some experimenting with SMART commands - and be advised that the drive may not support SMART.

O okay, didn't know it wasn't a proxmox specific question... I only discovered the issue through looking at proxmox's UI which displayed that the SMART storage was not passing and labeled UNKNOWN... so naturally it was in the ball park of being at least very related to proxmox, and thus the community would have possibility of having similar issues. That is why I posted here. Thank you for pointing me in the right directory... I think that the USB drive that I am using doesn't support SMART.

 

[gfngfn256]

didn't know it wasn't a proxmox specific question... I think that the USB drive that I am using doesn't support SMART.

Connect it to another computer (any OS) & see if it reads SMART data.

IDK what USB bridge your using - but not all are supported, see here.

I also DK what HDD/SDD you've got in there, but maybe try:

smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sda

See man page for other possibilities.