On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 1:20:38 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > But why rely on a guess when the obvious thing to do is to test it? > > 1. Try the M.2 device in another machine
According to some Google searches the X1 Carbon Gen 1 that I have uses a non- standard connector so the device won't work in another machine and getting another device for it will be difficult and maybe expensive. > If you don't have another motherboard with M.2 slots free, you can get > reasonably priced PCI-e adaptors that can take anywhere from 1 M.2 drive > (using 4 PCI-e lanes) to 4 M.2 drives (using all 16 PCI-e lanes). > > These are a useful thing to have around, so it wouldn't be a one-use waste > of money. I've got a M.2 to SATA adapter already. But it wouldn't work with the Thinkpad device. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Carbon-Model-3443-SSD-interface-mSATA-M-2-etc/m-p/2031869 Here's the information on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1 that I have. A strange small SATA connector that looks like M.2 but isn't. There are adapters but fitting an adapter and a regular M.2 card in there will be difficult. A new storage device for this laptop will probably cost $100US (or $40AU if I get a smaller one). Jason King replied off-list to suggest that the error messages have been correlated to cable-controller issues by other people (which in this case means motherboard). I think I'll keep running it as it is until something dies properly. Then I'll run it with a USB stick for booting and the build-in SD slot for the root filesystem until I can get a good deal on a replacement. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
