Problems writing to intel P3700 NVMe drive

[j cagle]

Hi Kishore,

dd won't write anything if you use if=/dev/null.  You should use
if=/dev/zero instead. (This is probably what Greg intended.)

John

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Pavilion Storage
<storagepavilion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg
>
> Here is the output from the dd command on a good (non-intel;
> /dev/nvme0n1) and bad (intel drive; /dev/nvme1n1). There is no
> difference in displayed output of dd, but the write is successful in
> the non-intel drive. The nvme-cli command tool correctly shows the
> failure to write, but offers no further clues beyond the failed
> status.
>
> thx
> Kishore
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> [root]# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nvmen0n1 bs=512 count=1000000 conv=notrunc
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.62e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
> [root]#
> -----------------------------------------------------
> [root]# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nvme1n1 bs=512 count=1000000 conv=notrunc
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00032024 s, 0.0 kB/s
> [root]#
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> [root]# ./nvme-cli write /dev/nvme0n1 -s 0 -z 4096 -d /dev/null
> write: success
> [root]# ./nvme-cli write /dev/nvme1n1 -s 0 -z 4096 -d /dev/null
> write:WRITE_FAULT(2280)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Greg Schulz <greg at storageio.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the follow-up and extra info, I have 3700s running on x86/64 Ubuntu 14.04 and working fine.
>> I did update the drivers from the Intel site even though they were already in the 14.04 kernel when I was troubel shooting something else.
>> What happens if you do a dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=512 count=1000000 conv=notrunc
>> Cheers gs
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linux-nvme [mailto:linux-nvme-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Pavilion Storage
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:41 PM
>> To: greg at storageio.com
>> Cc: linux-nvme at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: Problems writing to intel P3700 NVMe drive
>>
>> 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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>>> 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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