NVMe ssd not recognized in Catalina 15.4 on Lenovo Thinkcentre m900 Tiny.

[docsevo]

I have a Samsung 970 EVO NMVe M.2 in an internal PCI slot that works in Windows but is not recognized by Catalina. There are some patches for High Sierra on this site for what seems to be this situation. Would they work for Catalina?

 

[EliteMacx86]

I have a Samsung 970 EVO NMVe M.2 in an internal PCI slot that works in Windows but is not recognized by Catalina. There are some patches for High Sierra on this site for what seems to be this situation. Would they work for Catalina?

Catalina doesn't needs it. Works OOTB.

 

[docsevo]

Catalina doesn't needs it. Works OOTB.

Thanks. Thinking about it I realized Catalina must see the drive if it tells me its an unrecognized format. Feel a little stupid. Installed NTFS for Mac, formatted the NVMe drive, and all is well. I like this machine. 15 secs from power on to Catalina. All usb3 ports work. There doesn't seem to be a compatible wifi card. The broadcom stopped the boot at power on with a bios message about an incompatible card. A usb wifi dongle (TP Link AC600 nano) is tiny, cheap and fast.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Thanks. Thinking about it I realized Catalina must see the drive if it tells me its an unrecognized format. Feel a little stupid. Installed NTFS for Mac, formatted the NVMe drive, and all is well. I like this machine. 15 secs from power on to Catalina. All usb3 ports work. There doesn't seem to be a compatible wifi card. The broadcom stopped the boot at power on with a bios message about an incompatible card. A usb wifi dongle (TP Link AC600 nano) is tiny, cheap and fast.

Happens. In such case, a whitelist removal is required.