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#1 2015-11-02 22:27:21

superfly0
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[SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

After booting from USB to install Arch I cannot see the PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD drive.

The drive is visible in BIOS screen (UEFI: PM951 NVMe SAMSUNG) and boot menu but not visible when I boot into Arch.

Any suggestions on how I could proceed?

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#2 2015-11-02 22:42:43

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

How are you looking for it? it should appear as /dev/nvmeXn1.

Can you post the output of lsblk please. Also grepping dmesg for nvm might throw up some more information.


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#3 2015-11-02 22:47:21

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

superfly0 wrote:

After booting from USB to install Arch I cannot see the PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD drive.

The drive is visible in BIOS screen (UEFI: PM951 NVMe SAMSUNG) and boot menu but not visible when I boot into Arch.

Any suggestions on how I could proceed?

Do you dual boot? What motherboard is it?


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#4 2015-11-02 23:09:29

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

# lsblk

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    1  1000M  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    1   659M  0 part /run/archiso/bootmnt
└─sda2        8:2    1    31M  0 part 
loop0         7:0    0 286.8M  1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs
mmcblk0     179:0    0   7.4G  0 disk 
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   7.4G  0 part /root/t

# dmesg | grep -i nvm  
shows no result

So far have not bothered to boot into Windows. Ideally I would like to get rid of Windows 10 and run just Arch.

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#5 2015-11-02 23:11:28

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Hmmm... anything from:

dmesg | grep -i samsung

or

dmesg | grep -i 'error\|warn\|exception'

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#6 2015-11-02 23:25:11

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Nothing for samsung.

Some exception and warning but unrelated I guess.

dmesg output: http://pastebin.com/1kyPCL5a

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#7 2015-11-02 23:28:22

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

I have no experience with this hardware... is it possible the BIOS can hide hardware from the OS?  Try building the 4.3.0 kernel?  Grasping at straws here.

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#8 2015-11-02 23:49:58

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

graysky wrote:

Try building the 4.3.0 kernel?

Shouldn't be an issue. NVMe support has been in the kernel since 3.1.
I know that a lot of motherboards don't support it yet, but given that the drive shows up in the OP's BIOS I'm assuming that the motherboard is compatible.


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#9 2015-11-03 00:01:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Is there a module needed in order to detect and use this device?


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#10 2015-11-03 01:06:33

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Solved it. Disabling "SATA Operations" in BIOS fixed it.
In BIOS (F2)

System Configuration --> SATA Operation

change "RAID On" to "Disabled"
(Disable =The SATA controllers are hidden).

I don't understand the reason. Hopefully someone can explain this.
Thanks for the help.

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#11 2016-05-09 21:25:00

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

For anybody else who comes across this thread trying to solve Dell NVMe SSD issues as I did, I just wanted to add that I was able to solve the issue by switching the SATA Operation from "RAID" to "AHCI" in the BIOS. I did not want to disable the SATA bus altogether, as I have a couple non-RAIDed SATA drives plugged in.

I should also note this was on an Optiplex 7040 desktop tower, and also that I only ran into this issue when using UEFI boot mode. I did not have any issues with the BIOS in "Legacy boot" configuration.

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#12 2017-02-25 14:28:13

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Poohblah wrote:

For anybody else who comes across this thread trying to solve Dell NVMe SSD issues as I did, I just wanted to add that I was able to solve the issue by switching the SATA Operation from "RAID" to "AHCI" in the BIOS. I did not want to disable the SATA bus altogether, as I have a couple non-RAIDed SATA drives plugged in.

I should also note this was on an Optiplex 7040 desktop tower, and also that I only ran into this issue when using UEFI boot mode. I did not have any issues with the BIOS in "Legacy boot" configuration.

I can confirm that this works. I have a Dell XPS 15 (9560) with a 1TB NVMe SSD.

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#13 2017-06-28 10:32:15

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

I was struggling with the exact same problem and setting SATA to AHCI fixed the problem.

Here also the Dell support article on this topic:
https://www.dell.com/support/article/au … -m2-drives

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#14 2017-11-14 12:26:26

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Thanks a lot. This fix my problem

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#15 2017-11-14 14:09:23

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

Welcome to the forums leonardo.ruspini, I am glad the solution worked for you. Please take a moment to read our code of conduct, particularly the sections Old threads/"necro-bumping" and No power-posting/empty posts. Thank you.

Closing to prevent further bumps as this is a solved thread.


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