Many USB storage devices are NVMe devices accessed through a USB-NVMe bridge chip, such as those by JMicron and Asmedia. These chipsets do not forward SMART data requests to the devices, but do have the capability to forward raw NVMe commands to the devices using vendor specific requests.
How can we provide access to SMART data for NVMe devices accessed through a bridge chip like this?
Many people used the OSX SAT SMART kext driver to provide access to SMART data for devices using USB-SATA chips, but it is a kext and doesn't support NVMe. See https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support#install-instructions
Would we need to implement a kext like that to make this work? Is there a DriverKit way to do this?
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When using external NVMe devices on iOS / iPadOS I cannot tell how to access the disk SMART data.
On macOS I can use NVMeSMARTLibExternal.h to access this information but the same system does not seem to work on iPadOS (even with Thunderbolt NVMe devices).
When using M series iPads with professional Thunderbolt storage this woudlbe very useful.
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