On 12/18/2016 11:57 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote: ...
I am confused about why ASUS is using a RAID controller setting in the BIOS for my laptop... I thought RAID was used with multiple drives to build in redundancy and recover-ability. But my laptop only has 2 drives, an SSD drive and a 7200RPM disk drive. This is the first time you mention that you have two drives. Depending on how they are configured (and yes, IRST supports such combination to present one logical disk) it may not be possible to switch from IRST to AHCI at all without reinstalling Windows or at least disabling RAID.
The less information you give the less accurate answers you should expect.
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You know Andrie, I got to thinking about this in the middle of the night and yeah there is something that was puzzling me... When the BIOS presents me with boot order options, it is only showing me one disk to choose from ,unless I had a DVD drive with a bootable disk or a bootable USB stick also, then it will show me two options. However, Windows 10 does show both my hard drive and the SSD drive as separate drives... And when I switch the BIOS to AHCI mode, I still only see one drive option presented under both SATA drives and Boot Order options. That is confusing to me, is this what "IRST" is doing? I would think that one way or the other, RAID or AHCI modes, I would see either just one drive or two drives.....
Forgive me if I am asking too many dumb questions, Well, it is OK to ask dumb question but so far there is simply not enough information to answer them. Start with switching mode in BIOS, booting Linux and telling us "fdisk -l" output as well as "lspci -nnv" one. You can switch back and continue to use Windows for the time being.
I have already posted the output from these two commands in previous posting... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org