On Friday, 1 September 2017 10:54:45 BST Arthur Țițeică wrote: > În 1 septembrie 2017 12:46:39 EEST, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> a scris: > >Hello list, > > > >For the last week or two my NVMe SSD isn't being detected on startup. I > >get > >this error on manual invocation: > > > ># smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 > >smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.12.5-gentoo] (local > >build) > >Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, > >www.smartmontools.org > > > >/dev/nvme0n1: Unable to detect device type > >Please specify device type with the -d option. > > Smartmontools supports NVMe starting from version 6.5.
That was it - thanks. It's odd, though, that I hadn't noticed this before. > >Most things still seem to be working, but do I need to rush out and buy > > > >another drive? This one's only 18 months old. I don't really want to > >box up > >the machine and send it to Watford under warranty. > > > >Two things that aren't working properly are KMail (surprise!), and > >BOINC, > >which insists that VirtualBox isn't installed, when of course it (more > >or > >less) always has been. > > Is the boinc user in the vboxusers group? Yes: # groups boinc vboxusers boinc -- Regards, Peter.
