linux-kernel - Re: WD Red SN700 4000GB, F/W: 11C120WD (Device not ready; aborting reset, CSTS=0x1)

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Message-ID: <CAAMCDefgRUH5ygs10_=x75tOybvPPsYC-Q+KCFPP+9Le-x5RBQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:51:21 -0600
From: Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@...il.com>
To: dsterba@...e.cz
Cc: Wol <antlists@...ngman.org.uk>, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WD Red SN700 4000GB, F/W: 11C120WD (Device not ready; aborting
 reset, CSTS=0x1)

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 06:25:41PM +0000, Wol wrote:
> > Probably not the problem, but how old are the drives? About 2020, WD
> > started shingling the Red line (you had to move to Red Pro to get
> > conventional drives).
>
> The WD SN700 is an NVMe, though one can imagine how they could be
> actually shingled with slightly tilted overlapping sockets.
>

You have to get a red plus or red pro in spinning disk to be conventional.

On the nvme: I would check for a firmware update.  I have seen
multiple SSD drives from several manufacturers that had timed
housekeeping processes where something went badly wrong with that
housekeeping process and locked the drive up.    Some of the issues
lock the drive up until a reset and then when it fires again (hours or
days later after the reset) it locks up again, and some of those
firmware bugs brick the drive.    If the timed housekeeping it would
likely be some set time after you powered it up.