Rock 5B plus - NVME detected only sometimes!

[Chris C]

Hello,

 

I've recently bought a rock 5B plus. I have a brand new crucial P310 nvme 1TB with the goal to boot from it.

 

As the title says, sometimes the nvme drive is properly detected, sometimes not. (Everytime the controller is visible in lspci, but only sometimes shows in lsblk).

When the drive is properly detected, I can write to it and it works fine, without issues.

I've noticed that it is more likely to be detected on a cold boot (ie. if I turn off the power and come back the next day, the first time it will probably show up).

 

I have the official radxa 65w PD power adapter (although I've also tried a lot more during the process with the same results).

 

I tried with the official radxa debian image, and with armbian, and the results are exactly the same on both.

 

Btw, I would like to mention that armbian noble gnome doesn't boot even from the sd card (blue led but no display output, I let it for over 10 minutes), only the minimal/iot works.

 

I don't know what else to try at this point, I can post any info / logs you may want.

 

Thanks!