On 2024-04-24, Brian Conway <bcon...@rcesoftware.com> wrote: >> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB> > > That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned > on in the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI:
Optiplex 980 is from ~2010, similar age to the HP N54L microserver etc. Disks connecting by wd(4) and BIOS bugs relating to certain types of storage device were pretty common back then.
