[pve-devel] [PATCH docs] add section disk health monitoring to sysadmin chapter

[Dominik Csapak]

On 10/06/2016 04:42 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Thu,  6 Oct 2016 15:49:19 +0200
> Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com> wrote:
>
>> +----
>> +SMART support is: Disabled
>> +----
>> +
>> +you can enable it with the command:
>> +
>> +----
>> +# smartctl -s on /dev/sdX
>> +----
> Is this enough to enable smart on disks if smart has been disabled in
> BIOS?
>
>
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sadly my motherboard does not support disabling smart, so i cannot test 
this.

my guess is, that when you have smart disabled in the bios, you cannot 
enable it with smartctl...

it would be good if someone could test this, so we can add this 
information to the documentation