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rustyx opened this issue Dec 5, 2024 · 1 comment
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Add format and sanitize commands support #304

rustyx opened this issue Dec 5, 2024 · 1 comment
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rustyx commented Dec 5, 2024

It looks like smartctl is the only tool that can access NVMe drives hooked up via an NVMe-to-USB adapter (based on an ASMedia/jmicron/realtek chip).

It would be immensely useful if smartctl allowed securely erasing such drives as there appears currently no way to do this using blkdiscard, hdparm, sdparm or any other existing tool.
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The different vendor specific NVMe pass-through SCSI commands provided by USB bridges are undocumented and have various limitations. Format or Sanitize commands may not be supported or may be dangerous to use because not all command data words are passed to the device.

In particular -d sntrealtek only supports Identify and Read Log, but no self-tests or anything else.

Please see also issue #182 about our decisions regarding commands which may brick devices.

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