On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 1:20:38 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
But why rely on a guess when the obvious thing to do is to test it?
1. Try the M.2 device in another machine
According to some Google searches the X1 Carbon Gen 1 that I have uses a non- standard connector so the device won't work in another machine and getting another device for it will be difficult and maybe expensive.
If you don't have another motherboard with M.2 slots free, you can get reasonably priced PCI-e adaptors that can take anywhere from 1 M.2 drive (using 4 PCI-e lanes) to 4 M.2 drives (using all 16 PCI-e lanes).
These are a useful thing to have around, so it wouldn't be a one-use waste of money.
I've got a M.2 to SATA adapter already. But it wouldn't work with the Thinkpad device. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Carbon-Model-3443-... Here's the information on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1 that I have. A strange small SATA connector that looks like M.2 but isn't. There are adapters but fitting an adapter and a regular M.2 card in there will be difficult. A new storage device for this laptop will probably cost $100US (or $40AU if I get a smaller one). Jason King replied off-list to suggest that the error messages have been correlated to cable-controller issues by other people (which in this case means motherboard). I think I'll keep running it as it is until something dies properly. Then I'll run it with a USB stick for booting and the build-in SD slot for the root filesystem until I can get a good deal on a replacement. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/