NVME-SNDK-VS-FW-(1)

🌸 nvme-sndk-vs-fw-activate-history — the NVMe Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the NVMe Manual and it's all about nvme-sndk-vs-fw-activate-history, which is honestly a mouthful but stay with me, it's lowkey iconic 💅

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-sndk-vs-fw-activate-history — runs the NVMe sndk vs-fw-activate-history Vendor Unique Command and hands you back the result 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nvme [<global-options>] sndk vs-fw-activate-history <device>

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so for the NVMe device you pass in, this reads a Vendor Unique sndk log page that returns the firmware activation history. that's the whole vibe 💖

the <device> parameter is mandatory — not optional, not "eh maybe later" — and it has to be the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0). no cap.

⚠️ heads up bestie: this will only work on Sandisk devices that support this feature. results for any other device are undefined — like, literally undefined, we're not kidding, don't come for us 😭

on success it returns 0. otherwise you get an error code. that's the deal ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🌈 GLOBAL OPTIONS

these live at the top-level nvme command and are available to this subcommand too, so you get them for free 🎁

• --dry-run — prints the command it would run, but doesn't actually run it. very "look but don't touch" energy 🙈
• --no-ioctl-probing — turns off probing for 64-bit IOCTL support. bye probing 👋
• --no-retries — kills the retry logic on transient errors. one shot, one opportunity 💀
• -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — sets the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. only one output format at a time, please and thank you ✨
• --output-format-version=<version> — picks the output format version. version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (the default) gives you more consistent and script-friendly field names. any other version gets rejected, periodt 🚫
• --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors still get reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level 🤫
• --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — sets libnvme library options for this invocation. supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir 🔧
• --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff) ⏳
• -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. can be specified multiple times to crank the verbosity even higher 🔥

💡 these options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). a command-line flag always overrides the file — CLI stays main character 👑

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

• has the program issue sndk vs-fw-activate-history Vendor Unique Command :

# nvme sndk vs-fw-activate-history /dev/nvme0

✨ NVME ✨

part of the nvme-user suite 🦋

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this was NVMe (sourced from the nvme-user suite, manual dated 10/30/2026) — go forth and read your firmware activation history, you absolute legend 👑💖