Re: Installation fails to recognize SSD
On 5/11/22 09:20, Bruno Schneider wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:18 PM David Christensen wrote:
I have Dell Latitude 5400 laptop that I have been experimenting with:
1. Changing CMOS "Settings" -> "System Configuration" -> "SATA
Operation" from "RAID On" to "AHCI" allows Debian to see the internal SSD.
No such thing on my "InsydeH20 Setup Utility". There is a "SATA Mode:
RST with Optane", but that is information, not an option. I don't see
anything else related to SATA.
On 5/11/22 10:19, Bruno Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:41 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
<amacater@einval.com> wrote:
>> OK - Optane - do you have a regular SSD setting as well as Optane memory
>> assisted SSD?
>
> There is only one SSD on the notebook, I think there is no Optane
> memory anywhere.
>
>> Can you run lspci / grep the output of dmesg for a disk? I'd suspect
that
>> you might find NVME which is not /dev/sd* .
>
> Yes. The disk is NVMe, I can see that on the old Linux install.
> Exiting the installation to ash shell and then running lspci -v | grep
> -i nvme returns nothing. Running lspci -v | grep -i ata returns:
>
> RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA
> Controller [RAID mode]
>
> So I guess it is a problem of RAID mode SSD operation, but I can't
change that.
>
> Running dmesg | grep -i nvme returns:
>
> ahci 0000:00:17.0: Found 1 remapped NVMe devices.
>
> I'm running the testing installation with non-free firmware because of
> the the wifi:
>
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/
>
> I suppose there is no newer installer than that.
On the few occasions that I have tried Debian on recent hardware, I have
found that Debian Stable may not support it. One possibility is to try
Debian Testing. (That is how I ran this Intel DQ67SW / Core i7-2600S
computer when it was new.)
Other options:
1. Restore Windows 10 and run Debian in a VM. Once you have everything
dialed in and switch to full-screen mode, it is hard to tell that Debian
is not running on hardware (especially when the host is new and fast).
2. Find a Linux distribution that is known to work on that laptop with
that Optane NVMe drive. (It is an Acer? What model?) What Linux
distribution(s) have you used in the past?
David
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