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) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
