Better.

It is important to not fall into the trap of doing marketing for
vendors.  But also keep in mind another product is likely months away,
and then what to you do?

Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:14:11 -0700
> > From: Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net>
> > 
> > Here is the output from dmesg before and after.
> > 
> > nvme0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 unknown vendor 0x15b7 product 0x5002 rev 
> > 0x00: msi, NVMe 1.3
> > nvme0: WDS500G2X0C-00L350, firmware 101110WD, serial 181123456789
> > 
> > nvme0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "SanDisk WD Black High-performance NVMe SSD" 
> > rev 0x00: msi, NVMe 1.3
> > nvme0: WDS500G2X0C-00L350, firmware 101110WD, serial 181123456789
> > 
> > As further confirmation that perhaps it should stay SanDisk, the other
> > device other than 5001 and 5002 that is listed for vendor 15b7 is the
> > Skyhawk Series NVME SSD which was sold by Western Digital as a SanDisk
> > Skyhawk SSD. Patch included below.
> 
> And it seems that at least the 500G an 1TB models have been marketed
> as SanDisk Extreme PRO:
> 
>   
> https://www.anandtech.com/show/12543/the-western-digital-wd-black-3d-nand-ssd-review
> 
> The names are a bit long.  Googling for "WD Black High-performance
> NVMe SSD" doesn't yield any meaningful results.  I'd just call both
> "WD Black NVMe".  WD/SanDisk doesn't seem to differentiate between
> controller generations and our nvme(4) driver prints the model number
> anyway so it is not a big issue.
> 
> > Index: sys/dev/pci/pcidevs
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs,v
> > retrieving revision 1.1854
> > diff -u -p -r1.1854 pcidevs
> > --- sys/dev/pci/pcidevs     8 Jul 2018 17:34:07 -0000       1.1854
> > +++ sys/dev/pci/pcidevs     20 Jul 2018 19:39:47 -0000
> > @@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ vendor  BLUESTEEL       0x15ab  Bluesteel
> >  vendor     VMWARE          0x15ad  VMware
> >  vendor     ZOLTRIX         0x15b0  Zoltrix
> >  vendor     MELLANOX        0x15b3  Mellanox
> > +vendor     SANDISK         0x15b7  SanDisk
> >  vendor     AGILENT         0x15bc  Agilent
> >  vendor     QUICKNET        0x15e2  Quicknet Technologies
> >  vendor     NDC             0x15e8  National Datacomm
> > @@ -6975,6 +6976,10 @@ product SANGOMA A10X         0x0300  A10x
> >  product DIGI NEO4          0x00b0  Neo-4
> >  product DIGI NEO8          0x00b1  Neo-8
> >  product DIGI NEO8_PCIE             0x00f0  Neo-8
> > +
> > +/* SanDisk (Western Digital) */
> > +product SANDISK WDSXXXG1X0C        0x5001  WD Black NVMe SSD
> > +product SANDISK WDSXXXG2X0C        0x5002  WD Black High-performance NVMe 
> > SSD
> >  
> >  /* Schneider & Koch (SysKonnect) */
> >  product SCHNEIDERKOCH FDDI 0x4000  FDDI
> > 
> > 
> 

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