yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and (reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.ht...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
rday
Try a search for both errors, I'd put the salient portion in quotes.
--- Chris Murphy
.. perhaps .. google "M.2 PCIE adapter"? ...
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Try a search for both errors, I'd put the salient portion in quotes.
Chris Murphy
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and (reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.ht...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
i'm following up on an earlier post of mine, still looking for advice. someone earlier suggested googling for "M.2 PCI-E adapter", but this is a laptop, not a desktop, so i have no idea what the value of an adapter would be.
decent pics are in this article:
http://edgeup.asus.com/2016/01/19/rogs-g752-gaming-laptop-allows-easy-memory...
where the 4th pic down shows the two SSD slots clearly marked "PCIE ONLY". that article states:
"As the silk-screened label indicates, M.2 compatibility is limited to PCI Express SSDs. PCIe drives come in one of two flavors—AHCI or NVM Express—and the G752 works with both of them. However, it doesn’t support M.2 drives based on the Serial ATA standard. Those drives are too slow to take advantage of the copious bandwidth on tap, so there’s little point to running them in a laptop like this."
the SSD i tried is described here:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.ht...
and the "specifications" tab reads:
INTERFACE PCIe 3.0 x4 (up to 32 Gb/s) NVMe 1.1
so it sure seems like i should be able to use that SSD. but, as you can read above, my first attempt did not end well.
am i missing something? is support for that device built into the stock fedora kernel as it comes from red hat? (i just assumed it was, perhaps i was being optimistic. would this need standard pci-e support?)
is anyone else using this setup? with what SSD drive? and did it just work out of the box? i'm open to suggestions.
more in a bit ...
rday
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and (reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.ht...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
... snip ...
a little more digging, and i ran across this:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?79590-Issue-with-M-2-SSD-in-ASUS-R...
"What SSD are you using? I know that there is an incompatibility between the Samsung Pro 950 and the G752 series. Ive been able to get it to work but with a few issues."
grrrrrrrr ... so the very SSD i purchase turns out to be incompatible. drat. however, apparently, there are a couple others that will work:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM951-256GB-AHCI-MZHPV256HDGL-00000/dp/B00VELD... http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM951-512GB-AHCI-MZHPV512HDGL-00000/dp/B00VELD...
so, maybe i'll take a chance.
rday
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