You might look for a BIOS update. I am just beginning to learn about all of this M.2 stuff.
But here is my suspicion at this point. PCI-E lane complication. See: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Overview-of-M-2-SSDs-586/ And scroll down to "PCI-E lane complications". On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > (this is almost certainly a kernel issue but here's hoping someone > can give me some guidance.) > > once upon a time, i whined pathetically about problems sticking a > samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD into my ASUS G752VL-DH71 gaming laptop > currently running fedora: > > http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-users/2016-07/msg00410.html > > eventually, i tripped over this ASUS forum page: > > https://rog.asus.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-79590.html > > where one gets the distinct impression that that particular samsung > SSD is not compatible with my laptop, but one is assured that what > does work is the samsung SM951, which i picked up, with still no luck, > still getting early error message: > > ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) > ... etc etc ... > > this is the SSD: > > https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM951-512GB-NVMe-MZVPV512HDGL-00000/dp/ > B015CWR4M2 > > and i'm running out of ideas; do i need to roll my own kernel to add > support for this thing? i would have thought that if i don't have > support, the SSD would just be ignored, and not choke the system. > > i'm about to do more testing this weekend, but i sure would like > some advice. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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