(07-20-2021, 10:44 AM)halogen Wrote: I want to test an NVMe SSD drive in the Pinebook Pro that isn't yet in the wiki Hardware Accessory Compatibility list. can someone please write a noob-friendly guide on how to do it? I want to find out the following:
- whether the system can remain stable while the drive is in sustained heavy use
- APST default setting
- whether the power settings are saved across reboots, and if not, is there a workaround
This is the guide I used:
https://eli.gladman.cc/blog/2020/06/23/p...-nvme.html
And of course the wiki:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr...Me_adapter
I found that Manjaro can boot off the NVMe SSD (both boot and / from the NVMe are mounted). However, Manjaro's U-Boot must be present on the eMMC too. Details of my learnings are in my thread here. Read the entire thread as I learn from Manjaro mod, Stritt:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/pinebook-pro...nvme/72770
As you can see from the title of the thread, I also discovered that Linux.org broke the NVMe boot in going from 5.12.11-1 to 5.13.0-1! I've not had time to test Stritt's theory by putting "CONFIG_PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS=y" and the associated msi_controller driver code back into the 5.13 Manjaro kernel source and rebuilding the kernel to see if that fixes it. Details are provided in the thread. I'm still running 5.12.11-1 for this reason.
I'm running the 1TB WD Blue SN550 (WDS100T2B0C). In my ad hoc testing, APST mode (the default) seems to work very well and I'm not motivated to try static power settings.
Oops--I forgot to include this thread too:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/re-partition...sd/72463/2
