Enabling SMART HDD monitoring in Asus P5B?

[wgoldfarb]

I just finished building my first system . I just spent a couple of days testing for stability (Using Memtest86, Orthos Super Prime and Intel TAT) and all seems to be working well (system specs in my signature). I am running everything at stock speeds -- for now.

I just realized that my hard drive's SMART reporting is not working. I was trying to get some benchmark temperature readings and could not get a temperature reading on the HDD. I ran 3dMark06 and it says that SMART reporting is not available. Seagate's website says that SMART reporting cannot be disabled on this drive, so if the information is not available it is probably because of the BIOS or MoBo.

My HDD is a Seagate 7200.10 320 GB SATA drive. I have it connected to the Intel ICH8R controller (I don't know if it makes any difference, but it is connected to SATA port 6). The controller is set to AHCI mode in the BIOS, and SATA mode is set to enhanced. I also have a SATA DVD RW connected to the ICHR controller, in SATA Port 1. Since I am not using the JMicron controller I disabled it in the BIOS.

I don't know if it makes any difference, but when I installed the HDD I removed the small jumper in the back (according to the documentation on Seagate's website, leaving the jumper limits the drive to 1.5GB/s, while removing it allows 3.0 GB/s).

Any thoughts as to why the SMART monitoring functions are not working?

Thanks!

EDIT: I just downloaded Sandra, and Sandra says that SMART IS working and reports some statistics, but does not report the temperature reading. 3DMark still says that SMART is "Not supported". Can anyone suggest a utility that might be able to read the temperature?

 

[3NF]

Everest Ultimate Edition can show you what temperature is - at least that's what I'm using to show the temp for the same drive you have

 

[wgoldfarb]

Thanks. I found a couple of freeware apps, but I was extremely hesitant to install something I am not familiar with. I will try Everest.