On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 7:15:41 AM UTC+4, [email protected] wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 07:52 AM, Steve wrote:
> 
> > I need to run Samsung Magician software in Windows to flash the firmware of 
> > the SSD's I put in the laptop, is there any special way I need to setup the 
> > Windows VM to give direct access to the firmware
> >
> You would have to attach to the VM with IOMMU the storage controller 
> that the drive is connected to,
> 
> Obviously you can't do that if you are also using this controller for 
> your OS, without some ramdisk magic which is possible with some effort 
> but if you have the money it would be cheaper to simply buy an 
> Expresscard controller that supports SATA (fyi SAS almost always 
> includes SATA)
> 
> In the future don't buy crappy consumer level devices that only provide 
> a windows flashing utility.

Thank you for the ExpressCard suggestion, that is possible. I also have two 
internal mSata slots and will check whether they are on a different controller 
than the main SATA

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