SYNOPSIS
nvme [<global-options>] wdc vs-drive-info <device>
DESCRIPTION
For the NVMe device given, send the unique WDC vs-drive-info command and provide the additional drive information.
The <device> parameter is mandatory and must be the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0).
This will only work on WDC devices supporting this feature. Results for any other device are undefined.
On success it returns 0, error code otherwise.
Output Explanation
There are several different fields returned from this command depending on the drive:
Drive HW Revision
FTL Unit Size
Customer Serial Number
HyperScale Boot Version
TCG Device Ownership
EXAMPLE
# nvme wdc vs-drive-info /dev/nvme0
OPTIONS
GLOBAL OPTIONS
The following options are defined at the top-level nvme command
and are available to this subcommand:
- --dry-run
-
Print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it.
- --no-ioctl-probing
-
Disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
- --no-retries
-
Disable retry logic on transient errors.
- -o <fmt>
- --output-format=<fmt>
-
Set the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. Only one output format may be used at a time.
- --output-format-version=<version>
-
Select the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names.
- --timeout=<ms>
-
Set the timeout for the command in milliseconds.
- -v
- --verbose
-
Increase the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity.
NVME
Part of the nvme-user suite.