Tim: >> And I just bought a new 500 gig Samsung Evo 860 to install >> in a server. George N. White III: > Reports of problems using AMD hardware: > https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Computers-IT/860-EVO-250GB-causing-freezes-on-AMD-system/td-p/575813 > > > 00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] > > SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40) > > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA > > Controller [AHCI mode] > > Kernel driver in use: ahci > > Kernel modules: ahci > > > > I wrote to Samsung's EU support (samsungmemory@xxxxxxxxx) and they > > told me to "use an Intel controller or SATA AHCI controller." to > > which I explained that it's obvious that the controller in the AMD > > chipset is SATA AHCI. After few more mails where I explained that > > it's not normal for the SSD to act like that, they continued to > > blame the AMD SATA controller, I clearly stated that I'm not going > > to buy new system just to get the SSD working correctly and that > > the issue is in their SSD controller and not the AMD SATA > > controller and it's up to them to fix it with firmware update. > > Well, it's seems that it's not going to happen - they told me to > > return the SSD back to the retailer or to send it to their service > > center in the Netherlands My motherboards are both ASRock B250M Pro4, I can't find anything saying what chipset is involved with SATA, just this: 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/B250M%20Pro4/index.asp#Specification Very unenlightening. One of the PCs has been using a 500 gig Samsung 860 drive for a couple of years without noticing any drive problems. Nor had I done anything special in the UEFI for it, just plugged it in and let Fedora install itself. The other's been using a hard drive, and I just bought the same model drive to use in it. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 14:28:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
