nvme-seagate-vs-smart-add-log - Man Page

Retrieve Seagate vendor specific extended-SMART Information

Synopsis

nvme seagate vs-smart-add-log <device> [OPTIONS]

Description

For the NVMe device given, sends the Seagate vendor log request and either saves the result to a file or dumps the content to stdout​.

The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1)​.

The log contents may be associated with the controller, in which case the namespace parameter is ignored​.

Two logs exist, page 0xC4 (Extended SMART log page) and page 0xCF (DRAM Supercap SMART log page)

This command will only work on Seagate devices supporting this feature​. Not all commands work across all product families​.

Options

-l <NUM>, --log=<NUM>

Log number, page 0xC4 (Extended SMART log page) and page 0xCF (DRAM Supercap SMART log page)

-n <NUM>, --namespace-id=<NUM>

Namespace number

-o <FILE>, --output-file=<FILE>

Output in binary format​. Defaults to text-formatted dump to stdout

Examples

Get the vendor specific extended SMART information for the specified device​.

# nvme seagate vs-smart-add-log /dev/nvme0

Nvme

Part of the nvme-user suite

Info

09/28/2026 NVMe Manual