>> Intel Rapid Storage Technology. > This is a SATA AHCI/RAID controller. It has nothing to do with NVMe. Yet it was somehow required to use the NVMe drive in

>> Intel Rapid Storage Technology. > This is a SATA AHCI/RAID controller. It has nothing to do with NVMe. Yet it was somehow required to use the NVMe drive in this machine. This is braindead. > This is not (and were not) a problem with any other SATA and SAS controller I ever encountered, from cheap-ass Silicon Image ones to $2000 LSI/HPE ones. Only Intel, only ICH/R. Learnt this the hard way on a previous motherboard I had with two sata controller, the native Intel one, and an additional Marvell one. Sanity would encourage to use the intel one, except for all those friggin issues. As for Linux, I know why it works :) But it always amazes me that this FOSS project can ship all those IDs, quirks and all, but not one of the largest company on the planet. What a time to live where Linux has less driver issues than Windows. Thank you for all the details, I did not know iRST was such a hot mess. It's not that new, one would have guessed shit would have been figured out since. But no. Oh well... Btw sorry for the tone, I thought by "vendor" you meant Dell and not Intel. They produce some of the worst driver I ever had to work with. Don't get me started on their drivers for the E810 line of datacenter network adapters.