[Bug 1953305] [NEW] hdparm and inappropriate ioctl for NVMe device

[Jeffrey Walton]

Public bug reported:

I'm working on a HP ProBook 640 G4
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088KL637G). The machine runs Ubuntu
20.04.3 LTS x86_64 fully patched. The machine has a Samsung EVO SSD. The
SSD is a NVMe device on the PCI Express bus. According to HP's
Maintenance and Service Guide
(http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05956070.pdf), the interface is
ATA-7.

Running `hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1` results in:

# hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing cached reads:   29318 MB in  1.99 seconds = 14752.57 MB/sec
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads: 8206 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2735.13 MB/sec

I believe hdparm should be able to communicate with the device since it
uses a standard ATA interface. Reading through the web about the error,
one source says the error is due to a down leve hdparm. Cf.,
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/hdiodrive_cmdidentify-failed-
inappropriate-ioctl-device/.

Ubuntu supplies hdparm v9.58, but the latest is hdparm v9.62. hdparm
v9.58 was released in October 2018, while hdparm v9.58 was released May
2021.

It may be a time to update hdparm.

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$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

$ apt info hdparm
Package: hdparm
Version: 9.58+ds-4
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Alexandre Mestiashvili <mestia at debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 251 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), lsb-base
Recommends: powermgmt-base
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
Task: standard
Download-Size: 94.8 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Description: tune hard disk parameters for high performance
 Get/set device parameters for Linux SATA/IDE drives.

** Affects: hdparm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  hdparm and inappropriate ioctl for NVMe device

Status in hdparm package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm working on a HP ProBook 640 G4
  (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088KL637G). The machine runs
  Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64 fully patched. The machine has a Samsung EVO
  SSD. The SSD is a NVMe device on the PCI Express bus. According to
  HP's Maintenance and Service Guide
  (http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05956070.pdf), the interface is
  ATA-7.

  Running `hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1` results in:

  # hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1
  /dev/nvme0n1:
   Timing cached reads:   29318 MB in  1.99 seconds = 14752.57 MB/sec
   HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
   Timing buffered disk reads: 8206 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2735.13 MB/sec

  I believe hdparm should be able to communicate with the device since
  it uses a standard ATA interface. Reading through the web about the
  error, one source says the error is due to a down leve hdparm. Cf.,
  https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/hdiodrive_cmdidentify-failed-
  inappropriate-ioctl-device/.

  Ubuntu supplies hdparm v9.58, but the latest is hdparm v9.62. hdparm
  v9.58 was released in October 2018, while hdparm v9.58 was released
  May 2021.

  It may be a time to update hdparm.

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  $ lsb_release -a
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
  Release:	20.04
  Codename:	focal

  $ apt info hdparm
  Package: hdparm
  Version: 9.58+ds-4
  Priority: standard
  Section: admin
  Origin: Ubuntu
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Original-Maintainer: Alexandre Mestiashvili <mestia at debian.org>
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Installed-Size: 251 kB
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), lsb-base
  Recommends: powermgmt-base
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
  Task: standard
  Download-Size: 94.8 kB
  APT-Manual-Installed: no
  APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
  Description: tune hard disk parameters for high performance
   Get/set device parameters for Linux SATA/IDE drives.

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