On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote: ...
Hi Andrie - Yes you are correct, I was in RAID mode. So I switched the BIOS to AHCI mode and things look a whole lot more like I would expect. I am able to see both the SSD and the 7200RPM hard drive in the partitioning stage of the installer. Exiting at this point to a console I get the following from the fdisk -l and lspci -nnv utilities. (Note: I also had 2 USB sticks connected as well, one with Leap42.2 one it - sdb, and another that I could use to capture the output to an store in a file on it -sbc. )
fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: BBDDAEE1-18A2-4647-80A2-C8337801512B
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved /dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 253081599 252514304 120.4G Microsoft basic data /dev/nvme0n1p4 499095552 500117503 1021952 499M Windows recovery environment
So your SSD is true NVMe device, not hidden behind legacy AHCI, and now it is exposed as such. See also later.
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: C0CC86BB-7E5B-46CC-8EB4-26E1609F0C7D
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 519923711 519921664 247.9G Microsoft basic data
I assume this is your second disk. This is the most puzzling bit here - while the problem with NVMe and RAID mode is well known (there are patches to fix it under Linux), I would not expect problems accessing *this* drive in RAID mode. If I had access to such hardware, I would definitely contact linux-ide list for ideas and may be patches. ...
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA controller [AHCI mode] [8086:a102] (rev 31) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Yes, plain normal SATA controller ...
3d:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:010f] (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
And this is your SSD - as you see, it is full fledged PCIe device. At this point you have two possibilities. Pragmatic one is to reinstall Windows in this state. Challenging one is to find out how to switch to AHCI mode keeping Windows bootable. Judging by your partition table two disks are likely independent (you can confirm it by showing disk manager in Windows) so it should mostly amount to manually enabling standard NVMe driver in Windows (just like in usual case you would manually enable standard AHCI driver). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org