Questions tagged [nvme]
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Smartctl Message - NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Bad address
I am trying to check certain specifications of a hard drive on a computer with no operating system installed. I am using a Knoppix bootable disk (v8.6.1) to run a bash script with the line
smartctl -...
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Does Linux 3.1 support Intel Optane?
Does Arch Linux kernel 3.1 support Intel Optane? It boots in my system on SATA. Is there Intel Optane on SATA? Or does Linux 3.1 support any other Optane interface (like NVMe)? It is a digital music ...
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How to switch from NVMe to AHCI
I am a beginner and I know that NVMe is new and has advantages over AHCI for SSDs. But, I have one small question?
A SATA SSD can talk both AHCI and NVMe and the OS also has drivers for both NVMe ...
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NVMe Performance not all that good
Just got this Team Force Cardea Zero NVMe PCIe Gen4 drive. It's performance isn't what was promised.
They claim write speeds of 4,400 but I am only seeing 1,500
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img ...
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mount with umask does not works
I tried to run
mount /home/user/nvme0n1 -U 8da513ec-20ce-4a2d-863d-978b60089ad3 -t ext4 -o umask=0000
and the response is:
mount: /home/user/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
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Nvme not showing up in /dev on Ubuntu 19.04 (5.0.0-13)
I have an Ubuntu 19.04 on a machine with an nvme drive. However, the drive is not found in /dev/nvme*. cat /proc/devices shows that nvme is loaded as a character device and not a block device and ...
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Wrong sector size in NVMe
I bought a new NVMe SSD (SB-ROCKET-256) and installed Arch using gdisk for partioning. In theory, this SSD doesn't support 512e and I think the physical size should be 4096, am I wrong? How do I set ...
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NVME timeout, aborting when playing games
When playing certain games the game will hang and a whole bunch of NVME errors followed by BTRFS errors will be dumped to dmesg.
The end result of this is the filesystem being mounted as read only ...
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ext4-fs and IO errors with Samsung 960 pro 512 GB on linux mint 18.3
So my pc began failing last week giving me ext4-fs and IO errors, after like 1 year using the ssd without hiccups.
I have a Samsung 960 pro 512GB. I searched around and found that some people got ...
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Operation Not Supported Error Mounting NVME Drive on Arch Install
I'm trying to install Arch on a Dell XPS 15 9560.
I've used nomodeset to make the text legible (otherwise it's tiny on the integrated 4k monitor) and pcie_aspm=off to stop the slew of pci bus errors ...
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How to increase memory granted to nvme host memory buffer?
I see there is a max_host_mem_size_mb parameter that would allow me to forcibly limit the allocated memory, but how could I give more memory to an nvme drive without DRAM than what it tries to ...
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What's the difference between namespace size and namespace capacity?
Using nvme-create-ns, we can assign namespace size and namespace capacity; what's the difference?
Is it necessary to do this before using a NVMe SSD?
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Can't launch CentOS 7.6 installer if PC has M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD
A PC has a Toshiba 512 GB NVMe PCIe SSD. Windows 10 has been installed on it and boots OK.
When trying to install CentOS 7.6 on this SSD, the system hangs during boot, and I can't enter the CentOS ...
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Unable to boot on gentoo: GRUB2 - xfs - NVME SSD
I am currently configuring gentoo on a new machine using an NVME 500Gb SSD.
I reboot my computer, select the disk I want to boot off of, grub2 initializes, and then, the error I get is the following:
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What are nvme namespaces? How do they work?
I've recently begun supporting Linux installed on devices with built-in nvme ssds. I noticed the device files had an extra number, beyond a number identifying the drive number and the partition number....
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How to check/fix nvme health?
I'm running debian stable with a 2 x nvme Raid 1.
Here is the hardware/hoster it's running on
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex62-nvme?country=us
Almost every second day mdadm monitoring ...
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install Debian to NVMe SSD: unable to install GRUB in dummy [duplicate]
(Dell's) BIOS setting:
SATA: AHCI
Boot List Option: Legacy (default setting was UEFI)
Legacy Option ROMs: Enable
Attempt Legacy Boot: Disable
installation media: USB drive
patition:
Guided - use ...
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Installing Manjaro 18 on HP Spectre NVMe SSD
I recently picked up this lovely laptop (HP Spectre X360 13), and want to install Manjaro on it. It has a Toshiba NVMe SSD (KXG50ZNV1T02).
Seeing that this will be my first install of Linux onto an ...
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Update-grub detects windows 10 system on NVME drive. Cannot boot generated entry. Not UFI System
I have Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and grub 2 installed which boots from a sata SSD drive. This a BIOS system, not UEFI.
I have restored Windows 10 to an nvme drive, and fixed its boot structure and drivers ...
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Only 1 out of 2 nvme same capacity ssds is detected on CentOS kernel 4.20 ml version
I have plugged 2 nvme pcie ssd of same capacity on to my dell server running CentOS 7.6 and kernel version 4.20-ml but only one gets detected all the time.
While booting from kernel 4.20, an error: "...
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Installing GRUB on an nvme drive
I used a cloning app in windows to copy my partitions to the nvme but now I need to install a new bootloader as I am combining two drives into the one nvme.
Partition Layout:
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: ...
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I deleted the namespaces (NS) in my nvme ssd and ubuntu is not able to recognize the device
I had 2 namespaces (NS) in my nvme ssd (samsung) and deleted both to create just one but ubuntu is not able to recognize the device upon deleting. How do I recover the drive now?
Command used to ...
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Find physical block device of root filesystem on an encrypted filesystem?
I'm running Arch Linux (systemd) on several systems. Some have SSD storage, others have nvme storage devices and some use rotational HDD's. Some systems use dm-crypt to encrypt the filesystem. All ...
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List features of NVMe drive (like hdparm -I for non-NVME)
With a non-NVMe drive, I can run:
# hdparm -I /dev/whatever | grep TRIM
Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 block)
Deterministic read data after TRIM
With a Samsung 960 EVO 1TB NVMe drive (...
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Linux repeatedly scrambles portions of the filesystem on NVME
I have an NVME device holding the / ext4 partition and a few extra partitions for other operating systems and /boot/efi. Repeatedly, the file system gets corrupted, to the point where the already ...
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NVMe: missing or invalid SUBNQN field
I cannot figure out how to get my NVMe disks recognized in a brand new system.
No matter which distro I use, the dmesg output is the same: (Live CD)
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -i nvme
[ 5....
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Changing a built-in kernel module parameter at booting time?
I am trying to change a parameter, called "sgl_threshold", in the nvme driver when booting into Ubuntu 16.04 running linux kernel v4.18-generic.
It appears the nvme driver is actually built-in as it ...
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Why my Linux Mint 19 does not see my (Windows) NVMe drive?
Hardware: Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7577, model number 7577-92774.
Question:
Why my Linux Mint 19 does not see my (Windows) NVMe drive?
I read on ArchWiki:
The Linux NVMe driver is natively ...
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How to specify multiple schedulers on the kernel boot command line?
We have systems with both spinning mechanical disks, and NVME storage. We want to reduce the CPU overhead for IO by taking any IO scheduler out of the way. We want to specify this on the Linux boot ...
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dd copy from an OS HDD to PCIe NVME SSD, SSD can't boot
Test 1:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
/dev/sdb is a bootable OS HDD, /dev/sdc is another HDD, after executed the above dd command, the /dev/sdc become bootable.
Test 2:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
/...
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nvme fstrim causing crash on linux, disabling with systemctl doesn't help
I have a Linux (Ubuntu 18, kernel 4.15) desktop booting from an M2 nvme disk.
Once a week, it will crash around midnight. The relevant log file output from /var/log/syslog.* is below:
Jul 16 00:00:...
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find all block devices (hdds and ssds) using sysfs
Cant figure how to enumerate all physical disks, like hdds, ssds, NVMes and maybe flashdrives connected to machine and filter out all these loop devices, ram disks, cdrom and floppies.
I've checked ...
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M.2 NVMe PCIe boot times much slower than old SATA SSD
I've used dd to clone my old SATA SSD into a new and larger NVMe model on a Dell XPS 9360 and switched the SATA Configuration from the original RAID On to AHCI to get it booting. It works, but the new ...
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How to increase nvme_core.io_timeout on my c5 EC2 instacnce
We have mesos cluster where we're running centos7 c5 instances on aws. The kernel version is the latest 4.16.1-1.
In c5 instance type the volumes uses nvme drivers. The nvme volumes seems to have a ...
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How to setup nvmetcli for FC loopback mode?
I have a NVMe SSD, KC1000, from Kingston and a HBA, QLE2672 2-port 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter, from QLogic and are installed on Linux kernel 4.16.6.
Then I would like to set up a scenario which has ...
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NMVe SSD Fedora Throughput Tests too High
I am testing throughput of a Samsung 950 Pro SSD Card which uses NVMe protocol. My current method of testing is to mount a file system on a partition and write a file of size X bytes to the file ...
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Writing to NVMe Device File vs on Filesystem Mounted on Partition
I am currently trying to test read/write throughput to SSDs. These SSDs are read/written to via NVMe protocol. Currently, I am confused because I have seen two methods.
The first is directly writing ...
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Wait to Mount Until Process Not Busy
I am writing/reading to an SSD over NVMe. I would like to unmounts the SSD partitions and remount them after writing and before reading so as to avoid caching problems. It seems when I try to perform ...
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How to enable Kyber scheduler in Ubuntu 17.10 kernel 4.13?
I was wondering how to enable Kyber scheduler in Ubuntu 17.10, which has kernel 4.13 by default. I got bfq enabled using the instructions from How to enable and use the BFQ scheduler?. When I navigate ...
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Custom kernel for void linux, could not boot, nvme drive
I'm trying to build the 4.13.2 kernel for void linux to get the Vega drivers and I can't get it to boot.
Build process:
cp /boot/config-4.12 .config
yes "" | make oldconfig
make nconfig
Changed ...
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Smartmontools with NVMe support on CentOS 7
I've just set up CentOS 7 on a server with NVMe drives, and was suprised not to be able to run smartctl on them:
# smartctl -a /dev/nvme0
/dev/nvme0: Unable to detect device type
Please specify ...
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root filesystem on NVMe device
I have an Intel 750 NVMe drive. Works fine. Well.. sort of. I would like to use this device as my root file system.
I have no bios support for NVMe devices.
I have the nvme driver enabled in the ...
