Problems writing to intel P3700 NVMe drive

[Pavilion Storage]

Greg,
I am running this on Linux (Ubuntu/3.12) and I am accessing the raw
device (/dev/nvme1).

I have tried accessing with dd, nvme-cli and fio
Thx
Kishore

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Greg Schulz <greg at storageio.com> wrote:
> I may have missed it somewhere, what OS (and version) are you using?
> Also are you accessing the nvme device e.g. /dev/nvme0n1 raw or via
> partition or filesystem?
> Gs
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux-nvme [mailto:linux-nvme-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 4:30 PM
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> Subject: Problems writing to intel P3700 NVMe drive
>
> I am having problems with writing to an intel P3700 NVMe drive on a ARM
> based platform and I would appreciate any help in debugging this problem.
> Here are my experiments and observations so far:
>
>    - The drive is usable for read operations and I can run fio (randread,
> etc) but I cannot write to it.
>    - Other manufacturer's NVMe drive can be inserted into this platform and
> I can write to it
>    - I can insert the intel P3700 into an x86 host and I can perform write
> operations
>    - I have tried using the nvme-cli
> (https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli) tool and have read the error codes
> from read. It just shows 'WRITE_FAULT' which is not very helpful.
>    - I have looked at the SmartLog reports and the 'Critical Warning'
> is 0, i.e. the device is not in Read-Only mode
>    - I have updated the firmware using the intel SSD-DataCenterTool and
> updated the firmware on the drive the latest available version.
> The updated drive works fine on x86 platform.
>
> I think there is some combination of the platform and drive that is causing
> the problem. Can anyone offer pointers on how to debug this?
>
> Thx
> Kishore
>
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