On 08/02/2021 21:57, Lou Poppler wrote:
+ You have Windows on a regular, spinning hard disk in the machine, and + you also have anOn Mon, 2021-02-08 at 20:47 +0000, Bernard McNeill wrote:On 08/02/2021 20:33, Cyril Brulebois wrote:Bernard McNeill <bmqawsed4@gmail.com> (2021-02-08):It says to 'Change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, without this change Linux will not find SSD'. Questions: 1. To me, SATA is a reference to HDD, no internal HDD on my copy of this model - so not relevant ?Used for almost anything really, HDD, SSD, USB sticks, etc.In passing, I note the same link shows a need to disable Secure Boot - is this now obsolete?Likely. We've started supporting SB with Debian 10 (buster). Cheers,If I change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, do I mess up whatever is currently on the SSD? Best regardsSee https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Pros-Cons-AHCI-vs-Raid-On-XPS13-9300-NVMe/td-p/7636984 You have Windows on a regular, spinning hard disk in the machine, and you also have an unused SSD -- is this correct? Or maybe they are already RAIDed together by the factory? I thing especially if you are now introducing a third external disk to the mix, you probably do not want this factory RAID thing, but I don't know how safe it is to turn it off if you already have two mass-storage devices controlled by the thing.
+ unused SSD -- is this correct? Or maybe they are already RAIDed + together by the factory?I have one SSD (which has Win-10 on it), there is no other disk (spinning or otherwise) on the machine.
The BIOS System Information says 'M.2. SATA =(none)' and 'M.2. PCIe SSD-0=87NB51ASK5HS'.However: Under BIOS System Configuration, 'SATA Operation' is set to 'RAID On', [other options are 'Disabled' and 'AHCI' ].
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