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Blackbird: Booting from NVMe SSD sometimes disables SATA HDD and BluRay drive
witsu:
I experience this issue from time to time too. I am using a Marvell PCI-E SATA controller.
Rebooting a few times seems to resolve the issue most of the time.
Removing the optical drive also stops this from happening and allows the hard drive to work fine.
For now I've just left it disconnected since I don't use it frequently.
kth5:
--- Quote from: ClassicHasClass on December 16, 2020, 05:09:18 pm ---I think it might be the controller as well. Do you have a PCI one you can try?
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I do have one somewhere at the office. I don't want it to be a permanent thing since I quite like my accellerated dual-screen graphics with an nvme drive as a build partition. :D
I'll see if I can get it over tomorrow to try.
The big question though, I have had my blackbird since I think August 2019 and never did try connecting any kind of optical drive other than via USB. Could it be that it's just my board, its production run or a design flaw in the controller itself?
I'm fine without a warranty kind of process even if it were a possibility, just too bad I can't waste the 8x slot for another SATA controller and not miss out of the nvme.
FlyingBlackbird:
--- Quote ---The big question though, I have had my blackbird since I think August 2019 and never did try connecting any kind of optical drive other than via USB. Could it be that it's just my board, its production run or a design flaw in the controller itself?
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It was me who opened this thread and my Blackbird was RMA'ed and is still waiting to be reassembled again (shame on me but I simply had no time so far).
I had quite similar problems but my system did finally not even boot without any drive attached.
I will try to reassemble my system in the next three weeks with the same configuration as in my first post in this thread and see if I can boot with an optical drive attached via SATA (Asus).
Hopefully this is not a design flaw. I will report my results here...
BTW: Did you already try to enable the "cold restart" setting (I don't remember the exact name but it re-initializes the complete hardware when restarting like a real power-on boot phase). There is some documentation in somewhere here and in the wiki
mx08:
Sorry FlyingBlackbird for the late reply.
--- Quote from: FlyingBlackbird on February 04, 2020, 05:22:23 pm ---Do you use the NVMe SSD together with any other SATA device (which is my constellation supposed to cause problems - in my case I suspect the optical drive)?
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I'm not sure. I have an SATA DVD drive installed now, but haven't used my BB for some time now and don't remember if I used it with the DVD drive, or installed that after stopping using it.
--- Quote ---BTW: Did you already try to enable the "cold restart" setting (I don't remember the exact name but it re-initializes the complete hardware when restarting like a real power-on boot phase). There is some documentation in somewhere here and in the wiki
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It's called "fast reboot". Personally, I have that enabled because otherwise my GPU (WX3200) sometimes does not reset properly and then disappear from the system (even not in lspci).
How to disable fast reboot: https://shenki.github.io/skiboot-disable-fast-reboot/
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