diff --git a/meta-facebook/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-nvme/bletchley/nvme_config.json b/meta-facebook/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-nvme/bletchley/nvme_config.json
index 937df57..32e36a5 100644
--- a/meta-facebook/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-nvme/bletchley/nvme_config.json
+++ b/meta-facebook/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-nvme/bletchley/nvme_config.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+    "maxSmbusErrorRetry": 3,
     "config": [
         {
             "NVMeDriveIndex": 1,