It's not even the wrong hardware, though. This hardware from Intel supports AHCI. However, the Lenovo BIOS has RAID selected as default (for single-drive, believe it or not!), and not only that -- it locks you out of changing it back to AHCI.
The option to do so is on the Advanced page of the BIOS, which was locked out by a small modification Lenovo made (adding two lines of code -- a conditional goto/jmp).
I agree that the blame falls squarely on Lenovo, but for very different (and more correct) reasons.
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Re: Shared blame
Date: 2016-09-21 10:49 pm (UTC)It's not even the wrong hardware, though. This hardware from Intel supports AHCI. However, the Lenovo BIOS has RAID selected as default (for single-drive, believe it or not!), and not only that -- it locks you out of changing it back to AHCI.
The option to do so is on the Advanced page of the BIOS, which was locked out by a small modification Lenovo made (adding two lines of code -- a conditional goto/jmp).
I agree that the blame falls squarely on Lenovo, but for very different (and more correct) reasons.