smartmontools 7.5-1

Tue May 20 14:06:34 GMT 2025

On 5/20/2025 9:44 AM, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 5/20/2025 4:50 AM, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On 5/19/2025 9:14 AM, Christian Franke wrote:
>>>>> The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>>>>>>>> * smartmontools-7.5-1
>>>>>>>> Thank you for this! It works fine on an attached HDD, but with my built-in
>>>> NVMe, I get this, in response to /usr/sbin/smartctl -r ioctl,2 -i /dev/sda
>>>>>>>> smartctl 7.5 2025年04月30日 r5714 [x86_64-pc-cygwin-w11-24H2] (cygwin-7.5-1)
>>>> Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>>>>>>>> \\.\PhysicalDrive0: successfully opened
>>>> IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY returns:
>>>> Vendor: "NVMe"
>>>> Product: "KXG80ZN84T09 NVMe KIOXIA 4096GB"
>>>> Revision: "11304103"
>>>> Removable: No
>>>> BusType: 0x11
>>>> \\.\PhysicalDrive0: successfully opened
>>>> [NVMe call: opcode=0x06, size=0x1000, nsid=0x00000000, cdw10=0x00000001]
>>>> [STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY: Id=49, Type=1, Value=0x00000001, SubVal=0x00000000]
>>>> [STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY: ReturnData=0x00000000, Reserved[3]={0x0, 0x0, 0x0}]
>>>> [Duration: 0.000109s]
>>>> [NVMe call failed: IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY(NVMe) failed, Error=1]
>>>> Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY(NVMe) failed, Error=1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Which NVMe driver is used according to devmgmt.msc?
>>>> It's the Microsoft system disk driver 10.0.26100.3912 from 6/21/2006,
>> at least that's what the devmgmt.msc device manager shows for the drive.
>> Is that informative? :-)

> AFAIK this is a generic protocol independent disk driver which sits on top
> of the protocol specific drivers.

> Is there another driver listed in the "Storage Controller" section? In
> particular one with "NVMe" or "Intel RST VMD" in its name?

Aha - yes!
Intel RST VMD Controller A77F
Driver 19.5.1.1040 of 8/25/2022
Intel RST VMD Managed Controller 09AB
Driver 19.5.1.1040 of 8/25/2022
Regards - Eliot Moss