> On Apr 3, 2021, at 2:37 PM, Barney Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:25:30PM -0500, Karl Dunn wrote: >> I have new Dell XPS 8940 that came with Windows 10 Home installed. I have >> created two partitions for FreeBSD, one on its NMVe 256GB SSD, and one on >> its WD 1TB HD. >> >> For now, I have 12.2-RELEASE-p4 GENERIC on a USB memstick, so I can do >> some limited testing. >> >> FreeBSD 12.2 does not recognize the SATA/RAID controller, which I assume >> is resposible (in Win10) for accising both drives. >> >> The relevant pcoconf line for the controlleris: >> >> none7@pci0:0:23:0: class=0x010400 card=0x09c51028 chip=0x06d68086 rev=0x00 >> hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> class = mass storage >> subclass = RAID > > See if the BIOS offers a choice of configuring the controller as SATA instead > of RAID. That worked for me on an Inspiron 1180. (It also made W10 unbootable > - apparently each OS occupies its own universe.)
That is what I do on laptops that come with Intel SATA chip configured for [fake] RAID “operation": I switch in BIOS/UEFI away from RAID to AHSI or IDE. But before doing that if you still want installed MS Windows to boot after switch, do this: https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/771-change-sata-operation-mode-from-raid-to-ahci-without-re-installing-windows Valeri > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
