Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 05:17:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > The problem was with the BIOS, it needs IHCH or something like that to be
> > recognized!
> > But it is working now as a xfce Desktop!
>
> Seems to be (not only) a DELL thing: Some time ago I tried an Openbsd
> installer on an Alienware computer, ~10 years old, which was sold by
> DELL: In UEFI, IIRC, I had to change sata mode from "raid" to "ahci"
> to let openbsd detect hard disks on that computer.
>
> Seems to an older issue:
> https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10228
> https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg153583.html

Adding to that list, my experience with an ASUS laptop where it would
be physically impossible to fit more than one storage device, but
the storage controller anyway was set to "Raid" mode by default. Fortunately
it was possible to choose the other options and have the device turn up
as a regular NMVe device:

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html (or with
incrementally nicer formatting at the cost of G's trackers,
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html)

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