Anyway to view all the available nvme slots, even if they aren't in use? smbios seems to come up short here

it probably is highly dependent on the system

yeah, im learning

like some things will provide what is essentially an ses device

since an ses slot can identify its occupant in a couple of different ways, one of which is by PCI(ex) bus/device/func

was playing around in pcieadm

have you tried looking at fmtopo?

yeah, diskifno doesn't give drive slots on this machine, and fmtopo -v shows only 1 mention of nvme.... its not a huge deal I'm just populating the Device Type in this inventory and can just look at it online since we dont have a bunch

but i got curious

what type of system?

errr topo -v shows more than 1, my tmux history burned me

if you look at the parent node, see if there's a label

(probably the node right before the nvme one, though if not not too far before it)

oh hrm.. that is pretty sucky... are there any actual labels?

looking at the MB, it looks like there has to be some sort of card the nvme drives are connecting to?

there doesn't appear to be any connectors for NVMe... jsut a single PCIe slot

does the hotplug command work to blink any indicators?

hotplug gives more information from what I can tell gist.github.com/Smithx10/cead1e7be1a684875fd53cd5cad7cceb

think its probably how this SYS-2029BT-HNR 4 Nodes 1 chassis get to their disks.... not sure gist.github.com/Smithx10/cead1e7be1…ment_id=6339649#gistcomment-6339649

it does appear to identify slot locations

which makes it sound like maybe there's a missing topo enumerator

yeah looks like the supermicro AS -1125HS-TNR we have does the same thing, its a typical 1U machine

i suppose the other thing is you might be able to make a topo map

label string MB; FRU fmri hc://:product-id=AS--1125HS-TNR:server-id=00-07-43-82-12-50:chassis-id=S509928X4B22453/motherboard=0; product-id string AS--1125HS-TNR

yeah, Nick sent over this, gist.github.com/nwilkens/2f8d10aae438e3d69202071bbd8f93ed