On Sat, 2025-10-04 at 17:38 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > * Some M.2 slots disable SATA ports when in use.
There's often things shared about in some way that causes a limitation. I had an old PC with 1 AGP, 5 PCI slots and an ISA slot. You couldn't use all the PCI slots because some shared IRQs, one with the AGP, and there were very few cards didn't need IRQs or could handle sharing IRQs. On my newest PC, if PCIE slot 2 or the PCI slot is occupied, a PCIe type M.2 device on M2_1 socket will only run at Gen3 x2 (16 Gb/s). And if the M.2 device is a SATA one, one of the SATA ports is disabled. It makes me wonder what they were thinking when they make motherboards with a bunch of either/or conditions. It maybe they were design flaws they didn't discover until afterwards... Here's a board with five slots, but you can only use two of them... -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ 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
