NVMe Detection

[jeffprandall]

I have a Tyan S7045 motherboard with a Startech M.2 adapter and a Samsung 950 Pro attached to slot 2 (second from the bottom) but I can't FreeNAS to recognize. If I do a

Code:

dmidecode -t slot

it shows all the slots as available. What should my next troubleshooting steps be?

 

[Ericloewe]

Try a different adapter, try a known-good standard size PCIe card in the slot, try a different SSD, ...

 

[pschatz100]

Also, try a different PCIe slot. It would help if you would provide your system configuration.

 

[BigDave]

Can you remove the adapter card to another computer and test it there?
Your Tyan board could have a bad pci-e slot, have you tried other slots
on the Tyan board?
Could you boot up a linux distro and see if the SSD is picked up by that
operating system?

 

[jeffprandall]

Try a different adapter, try a known-good standard size PCIe card in the slot, try a different SSD, ...

I tried the first PCI slots but looking at the manual for the Motherboard it "says" PCI x4 is on the second slot. I unfortunately don't have another adapter or SSD. I'll try slot by slot and see what happens.

Any commands I should try to see if either the card/ssd is recognized if it's not obvious in FreeNAS?

 

[jeffprandall]

I tried every slot and nothing. I'll try testing in an old server from the office and see what I get. Thanks!