Thanks Carlos, I will intersperse my responses to your comments and questions below - On 12/30/21 10:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 30/12/2021 17.26, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 12/30/21 01:10, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 30/12/2021 04.46, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-12-29 20:47:55 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|On 30/12/2021 01.51, Felix Miata wrote: |> Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-12-29 23:31 (UTC+0100): |>> Marc Chamberlin wrote:
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Hi Carlos - It is fun reading all the comments about how my laptop works! LOL Anywise maybe this link will help, it is both a technical explanation and a bunch of HP's marketing hype - https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/what-is-intel-optane-memory HTHs Yes, this is what others have suggested you have, but it makes no sense.
You have two disks:
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 953.9 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors Disk model: INTEL HBRPEKNX0203AH 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: B32172FB-2CEE-4E2C-B94B-46DAABE35591
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 360937471 360370176 171.9G Microsoft basic data /dev/nvme0n1p4 1999337472 2000392191 1054720 515M Windows recovery environment
And
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 27.3 GiB, 29260513280 bytes, 57149440 sectors Disk model: INTEL HBRPEKNX0203AHO Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Notice that both are /dev/nvme, meaning M.2 form factor for *both*. If both are M.2 nvme "disks", optane makes no sense, both are immensely fast.
However, *the system may be lying*, and in fact the first disk is rotating rust. Do you hear it spinning?
I am gonna remember that technical term "rotating rust"! Still getting a good chuckle out of it! No there is no spinners on this laptop, all solid state with no moving parts.
It might be an SSD, but I doubt that adding optane to that is that big an advantage.
It is an SSD, I cannot make a comment about the optane memory other than to say this laptop is fast! Boot up time is under 3 seconds, and most responses are almost instantaneous. Fastest laptop I have worked with yet!
In any case, you have to kill that Optane. Impossible to install Linux.
That doesn't bode well for me! I don't think it is possible to remove the Optane memory, I think it is built in as part of the SSD memory card. I took a look at the laptop to see how it might be opened. Does not look easy or obvious so will have to do further research...
How, I do not know. Return the laptop? (I would do that, eyes closed)
Naw if all else fails, I will give this laptop to my wife, who has been whining about how slow her laptop is. I will have to buy another one for myself and strongly suspect it won't be an HP one.
Or open it up, and report what is there. Remove the Optane, replace rotating rust with actual SSD disk.
See above responses, this is easier said than done but I will work on it. BTW, I tried to install OpenSuSE 15.4 Alpha and ran into the exact same snag! No joy getting the partitioner to work with the SSD and Optane drives, and I get the exact same error messages. I also turned off Virtualization support in the BIOS and still no joy getting the OpenSuSE install of 15.4 to work. Guess I will try TW next... Thanks again so much for your thoughts, Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the electronic signature is attached. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)