On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 21:27 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > > I think the Nvidia card may be consuming a PCI "lane", and if there > > are no more lanes available, the SSD would have to be using SATA. > > Caveat - I am not a hardware expert. > > PCI is a bus, so all the lanes are in principle available to all the > devices that are connected to it, some wired in and some via slots, > (some devices won't use all the lanes but that's beside the point). > Since there is a limited number of physical slots for devices to plug > into, if the Nvidia card is using the only one that would be the > explanation.
I recently DIY'd a TrueNAS server and my memory was that *if* I added a graphics card (using a PCI slot and as opposed to the integrated graphics) it would conflict with using the NVMe slot for the SSD, and instead the SSD would have to use the SATA SSD slot. IIRC it had to do with PCI lanes, not with actual physical slots (the NVMe slot is physically separate from the PCI buys slots, though I imagine they are electrically connected hence the "lane" limitation). -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
