Package: smartmontools Version: 6.6-1 Severity: normal Hi! Trying to read smart data about an Optane disk (ie, using legacy NVMe connector as opposed to DIMM), smartmontools returns plausible looking "information section" but the actual SMART data fails with "NVMe Status 0x4002".
Full output: smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-5.1.0-rc1-debug-ubsan-00033-g6006c729aa28] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: INTEL MEMPEK1J016GAL Serial Number: PHBT810400YV016N Firmware Version: K4110400 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x8086 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x5cd2e4 Controller ID: 0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 14,403,239,936 [14.4 GB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: e4d25c 8112200100 Local Time is: Mon Mar 18 01:04:49 2019 CET Firmware Updates (0x02): 1 Slot Optional Admin Commands (0x0007): Security Format Frmw_DL Optional NVM Commands (0x0046): Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Timestmp Maximum Data Transfer Size: 32 Pages Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 2.80W - - 0 0 0 0 1000000 30000 1 + 2.20W - - 0 1 0 1 1000000 30000 2 + 1.80W - - 0 2 0 2 1000000 30000 3 - 0.0080W - - 0 0 0 0 1150000 30000 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 512 0 2 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === Read NVMe SMART/Health Information failed: NVMe Status 0x4002 Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.1.0-rc1-debug-ubsan-00033-g6006c729aa28 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.6.1 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii libcap-ng0 0.7.9-2 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-3 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-3 ii lsb-base 10.2019031300 Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1 Versions of packages smartmontools suggests: pn gsmartcontrol <none> pn smart-notifier <none> -- no debconf information

