A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling.

It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup.

I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here.

What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5.

And, if I should upload the screen capture.

Do a sudo apt install hdparm -y

Then do sudo hdparm -Y /dev/nvme0n1

Post the numbers here

Also, did you enable PCI-E 3

lines in config.txt needs to say

dtparam=pciex1

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

in that order

Get

On Mar 4, 2024, at 10:34, John <radio@...> wrote:

A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling.

It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup.

I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here.

What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5.

And, if I should upload the screen capture.

Thanks for your reply.? Originally I did those things, but set up for only gen=2 and it worked, but didn't seem to boot any faster than my USB SSD on the Pi-4b.

I don't know what I've done now, but I really have the Pi messed up.

Now the commands you listed won't work and I cannot even install them.

Also, I took my PI-5 apart and unhooked the NVMe and put my original SD card in.? It still doesn't work well.? The Internet is very slow and it times out trying to update the card.? The Pi-4 using HamPi still works OK

I think the speed test link may have started the problem.? Another possibility is that I ran a command to update the eeprom to the latest version.?

My guess is that something in the firmware got overwritten or modified.?

On 2024-03-04 13:14, N5XMT wrote:

Do a sudo apt install hdparm -y

Then do sudo hdparm -Y /dev/nvme0n1

Post the numbers here

Also, did you enable PCI-E 3

lines in config.txt needs to say

dtparam=pciex1

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

in that order

Get

On Mar 4, 2024, at 10:34, John <radio@...> wrote:

A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling.

It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup.

I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here.

What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5.

And, if I should upload the screen capture.

Thanks for your reply.? Originally I did those things, but set up for only gen=2 and it worked, but didn't seem to boot any faster than my USB SSD on the Pi-4b.

I don't know what I've done now, but I really have the Pi messed up.

Now the commands you listed won't work and I cannot even install them.

Also, I took my PI-5 apart and unhooked the NVMe and put my original SD card in.? It still doesn't work well.? The Internet is very slow and it times out trying to update the card.? The Pi-4 using HamPi still works OK

I think the speed test link may have started the problem.? Another possibility is that I ran a command to update the eeprom to the latest version.?

My guess is that something in the firmware got overwritten or modified.?

On 2024-03-04 13:14, N5XMT wrote:

Do a sudo apt install hdparm -y

Then do sudo hdparm -Y /dev/nvme0n1

Post the numbers here

Also, did you enable PCI-E 3

lines in config.txt needs to say

dtparam=pciex1

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

in that order

Get

On Mar 4, 2024, at 10:34, John <radio@...> wrote:

A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling.

It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup.

I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here.

What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5.

And, if I should upload the screen capture.

If you can't even edit the config.txt file, then the file system on the drive has issues. As long as you are using sudo, you have permissions to write the system files.

Get

On Mar 5, 2024, at 11:02, John <radio@...> wrote:

Thanks for your reply.? Originally I did those things, but set up for only gen=2 and it worked, but didn't seem to boot any faster than my USB SSD on the Pi-4b.

I don't know what I've done now, but I really have the Pi messed up.

Now the commands you listed won't work and I cannot even install them.

Also, I took my PI-5 apart and unhooked the NVMe and put my original SD card in.? It still doesn't work well.? The Internet is very slow and it times out trying to update the card.? The Pi-4 using HamPi still works OK

I think the speed test link may have started the problem.? Another possibility is that I ran a command to update the eeprom to the latest version.?

My guess is that something in the firmware got overwritten or modified.?

On 2024-03-04 13:14, N5XMT wrote:

Do a sudo apt install hdparm -y

Then do sudo hdparm -Y /dev/nvme0n1

Post the numbers here

Also, did you enable PCI-E 3

lines in config.txt needs to say

dtparam=pciex1

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

in that order

Get

On Mar 4, 2024, at 10:34, John <radio@...> wrote:

A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling.

It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup.

I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here.

What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5.

And, if I should upload the screen capture.