NVMe SSD not recognized properly

CoCoL0r3s

Hey guys, I bought myself a new Samsung Evo 970 Plus NVMe SSD today. Installation of Solus went fine and performance is good.
The thin which bothers me is, the device is not properly recognised by the system, as hdparm does not list it at all and GSmartControl only lists it as "unknown device". As result of this, I can not read smart parameters and my options in setting device parameters is limited.
I don't think it is a hardware issue though, as UEFI and Windows do recognize it correctly. Could this be related to SSD firmware or some Solus related stuff? There are some topics on Solus and NVMe SSDs in this forum, but none is targeted at the same issue. Has anyone had similar experiences and Ideas how to get Solus to recognize the SSD correctly?

laky

CoCoL0r3s Hey, I am just thinking of buying the same nvme stick you have, could you tell me if you perhaps bumped into anymore trouble with it?

Brucehankins

CoCoL0r3s

CoCoL0r3s silly question, but have you tried resetting the bios?

kyrios

For reference : https://dev.getsol.us/T8478

Justin

I'm fairly certain NVMe drives are now supported in SMART tools.

meersjo

Same issue here - gsmartcontrol lists it as unknown even though hdparm -x does show the data.
I'm running gsmartcontrol 1.1.3 (which is latest), and updated the device DB today - but it's not in there, that may be the issue.

And to answer @laky 's question - no, the device itself works perfectly fine; it's just that gsmartcontrol doesn't seem to know how to handle it.

Edit: From the smartmontools FAQ:

SCSI/SAS and NVMe drives do not provide ATA/SATA-like SMART Attributes. Therefore the drive database does not contain any entries for these drives. This may change in the future as some drives provide similar info via vendor specific commands (see ticket #870).