On Thu 18 Feb 2021 at 14:09:33 (-0500), Gary Dale wrote: > On 2021-02-18 12:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > g...@extremeground.com wrote: > > > On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > > Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian > > > > > testing would not detect the hard drive. Any possibility this can be > > > > > added to the to-do-list for developers? I bought a Dell XPS 15 7590 > > > > > (2019) edition. > > > > Check in the BIOS settings - the drive may be configured in "RAID" > > > > mode. If so, switching to "AHCI" will most likely solve your problem. > > > > > > > Good idea if it was a desktop and if the drive wasn't NVME (although > > > 2020 saw some desktops with dual NVME slots). Seems a long shot for a > > > laptop (even a used one as this might be). > > I wish you were right, but even in the space year 2020 it's still a > > thing! For an example, see: > > > > > > https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Pros-Cons-AHCI-vs-Raid-On-XPS13-9300-NVMe/td-p/7636984 > Interesting. Thanks for the information.
Might one assume, then, that with spinning rust, and booting linux only, you can use either setting, and switch between them (even after installation), because the kernel will select the correct driver (assuming that the initrd was built with generic drivers, not just targeted ones). Cheers, David.
