Intel P3700 compatibility with Z97 motherboard

[CChon3]

Does the P3700 SSD actually populate values into Intel SMBus slave device 53h?

I have this SMBus issue on one Z97 motherboard (ASUS Maximus VII Gene) but not on another Z97 motherboard (ASROCK Z97M Pro 4).

As far as I know, 53h is supposed to contain DIMM SPD data for memory slot B2, when any RAM is populated in slot B1/B2 while the P3700 SSD is populated in any of the PCI Express slots on the Maximus VII Gene motherboard will result in a memory error (no boot).

I am trying to figure out who should I be looking for a fix to this issue, Intel or Asus?

[Jose_H_Intel1]

Please allow us more time to investigate.

[CChon3]

Any updates?

[idata]

53h is the correct location for the VPD (Vital Product Data) per the SSD Form Factor specification. The Intel® SSD DC P3700/P3600 series drives are targeted for Data Center Servers and Storage appliances. These systems generally use a MUX to allow multiple devices to share resources.

[CChon3]

One last question:

Will the P3700 work even if 3.3Vaux is not supplied by the system (as per Chapter 7.5, 2nd paragraph of Enterprise SSD Form Factor 1.0a Specification)?

http://www.ssdformfactor.org/docs/SSD_Form_Factor_Version1_a.pdf http://www.ssdformfactor.org/docs/SSD_Form_Factor_Version1_a.pdf

[ASouz7]

Hello ClementChong,

We are going to verify on this for you and will let you know soon. Please allow us some time to check further on this matter.