Yeah, I know, it's a bit of a stretch, but have an Enterprise Micron 9300 Pro U.2 NVME/SSD in my AMD X570 based system. The drive is attached to the primary NVME/M.2 slot on the motherboard using a M.2 to U.2 Host Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VB6L8SJ). I just picked up SpinRite 6.1/R2 to try to do maintenance, but it's not seeing the drive. I'm guessing it's something to do with the adapter, but wondering if anyone else has anything similar and gotten it to work.
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Can you see the device in the BIOS? Can you see it in FreeDOS? SpinRite doesn't have NVMe drivers so it's not going to be able to see it on its own, it will be requiring support from the BIOS and FreeDOS.
Yes, I can see it in BIOS, but it's UEFI, which I think I heard Steve say something about not working probably until SR 7. I don't see it in SpinRite, but will check to see if FreeDOS sees it. I assume it won't though.
Edit: Checked and FreeDOS doesn't see it. I'll just wait until there's a release that supports UEFI/NVME
Edit: Checked and FreeDOS doesn't see it. I'll just wait until there's a release that supports UEFI/NVME
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Well, good news, sorta. By setting 'Storage Boot Option Control' in my UEFI/BIOS to 'Legacy Only' as opposed to 'UEFI Only', SpinRite/FreeDOS sees the NVME Connected drive. Looks like it might take 27+ hours to do Option 3 maintenance, but at least I can see it now.
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