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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:40AM (#33033584)
Is there a way to look up that error log?
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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by jiripospisil on Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:12AM (#33045186) 

  Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
  Num   ErrCount  SQId   CmdId  Status  PELoc          LBA  NSID    VS
    0         16     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    1         15     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    2         14     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    3         13     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    4         12     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    5         11     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    6         10     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    7          9     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    8          8     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    9          7     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   10          6     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   11          5     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   12          4     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   13          3     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   14          2     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   15          1     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
  ... (48 entries not read)
To be honest I'm not sure how to interpret it. There are some tools on Linux to read this information but the output doesn't really seem more useful.
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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:14AM (#33045702)
I did a quick search earlier and it seems these are informational only and not necessarily persistent warnings. Some discussion suggested that some unsupported requests to the disk can result in these, but I don't know for sure.
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