[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS r151020: Setup won't see my NVMe disk

[Brian Hechinger]

>> This suggests that the SSD is indeed a NVM 1.2 SSD. :-(
>> But I still did not find a proper datasheet or any (Linux, ...) tool to identify the NVMe level.
>> 
>> What are your plans to support NVMe 1.2?
> 
> We can override the NVMe settings to support 1.2 devices, but we can't support all of the 1.2 improvements (e.g. namespaces).  Colleague Dale Ghent, who's spent time both in ixgbe (he put X550 support into illumos and therefore OmniOS) and NVMe can speak more, but I don't think he'll disagree with anything I've said here.
> 
> The big question to my mind is whether or not we should just support NVMe 1.2 devices out of the box (and out of the Installer ISO).

Has the issue with the Samsung drives been fixed? I haven’t tried it lately, but the 950 Pros were hanging. Those are 1.2a devices though, so I don’t know if that matters.

Just worried that enabling 1.2 might result in crashy systems.

-brian