Fedora 42 install only sees one of 2 internal SSD drives

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I have a laptop running Fedora 41, it has 2 internal SSD drives, one has the root and boot partitions and the second is entirely a mount point of /data

However with Fedora 42 when I click on the installation destination it only sees one drive

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Thanks in advance for any help

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In case it helps here is a df -h from the current fedora 41 install:

$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p5 1.9T 56G 1.7T 4% /
devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 32G 12K 32G 1% /dev/shm
efivarfs 438K 348K 86K 81% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs 13G 2.7M 13G 1% /run
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-network-generator.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-vconsole-setup.service
tmpfs 32G 4.0K 32G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p4 974M 483M 424M 54% /boot
/dev/loop4 517M 517M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-42-2204/202
/dev/loop2 7.2M 7.2M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/chromium-ffmpeg/73
/dev/loop5 92M 92M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
/dev/loop7 45M 45M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/23771
/dev/loop6 171M 171M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/opera/362
/dev/loop3 74M 74M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1908
/dev/loop8 171M 171M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/opera/367
/dev/nvme1n1p1 3.6T 1.5T 2.0T 45% /data
/dev/loop0 128K 128K 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
/dev/loop1 74M 74M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1802
/dev/nvme0n1p1 196M 139M 58M 71% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
tmpfs 6.3G 128K 6.3G 1% /run/user/1001

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It sounds like it could be a BIOS RAID option; if Intel RST/RAID is enabled (instead of AHCI), some drives get remapped through that and some Linux distros don’t present drives doing that (dmesg reports remap or something).

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This solved it, Thank you!!

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