On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:53:30AM +0100, Michael wrote > Back to the original question: > > I've not had a Dell with this option yet, but I understand Dell uses > RAID with NVMe drives because it allows Intel RST drivers to work > with most/all NVMe drives. I'm not sure if any of the Dell onboard > software to restore the Win10 OS also depend on this. Once you > initialize the OS I think you won't be able to run it in a different > mode. > > http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/why-does-dell-set-the-bios-to-raid-always.832016/ > > However, I've seen it mentioned in various places Linux will not be able to > see the drive if RAID is selected - I don't know if this is still the case. > > https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Pros-Cons-AHCI-vs-Raid-On-XPS13-9300-NVMe/td-p/7636984
Some years ago, I had a Dell with a hard drive (no SSD), that would't work with RAID enabled. Apparently things haven't changed much. Thanks for the info; I'll know to select AHCI when I install. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
