[smartmontools-support] NVME testing question

[James]

I have Acer Aspire A515 something and it works for me.
It's probably an older nvme drive.
Maybe dmesg can ID the drive that doesn't work.
I think the nvme driver is in the kernel so maybe try a later kernel on 
the one that doesn't work.


$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1p1
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-40-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       KINGSTON RBUSNS8154P3128GJ1
Serial Number:                      xxx
Firmware Version:                   E8FK12.3
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x2646
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x0026b7
Total NVM Capacity:                 128,035,676,160 [128 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      0
NVMe Version:                       1.2
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          128,035,676,160 [128 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            0026b7 6845817955
Local Time is:                      Wed Jul 13 16:51:45 2022 EDT
Firmware Updates (0x12):            1 Slot, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0007):   Security Format Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x001e):     Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat
Log Page Attributes (0x04):         Ext_Get_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     84 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     88 Celsius

On 2022-07-13 15:32, Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
> I've noticed the Smartmontools can't access SMART on NVME drives on 
> Acer (and some other model) laptops.  (I see a lot of Acers.) The WD 
> Dashboard can run and display SMART information, so clearly it's 
> there, but blocked by some sort of driver/BIOS issue.
> Any suggestions on how to get this information?   As I mentioned, I 
> see a lot of Acers, so I'm happy to do testing on this end if that helps.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Thane K. Sherrington