Article 5973C Can't see drives on Dell XPS 8940 with fdisk or gdisk to partition them for Slackware

Can't see drives on Dell XPS 8940 with fdisk or gdisk to partition them for Slackware

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Hello, I'm trying to install Slackware on a new Dell XPS 8940 desktop. Created a boot image usb stick, logged in as root. But my internal hard drives are not visible to fdisk, gdisk, or lsblk. Only the usb stick drive appears as /dev/sda. Trying fdisk /dev/sdb, etc results in a drive not found error.

The Optical drive isn't visible either. However the disks & optical drive are fine in Windows 10.

Bios info:

Bios version 1.0.1 Build 4400.12 UEFI Rom

Drive info:

SATA-0 HDD 6001 GB WD-WX12040N1SV9
SATA-1 HDD 6001 GB WD-WX12D4073KNY
M.2 PCIe SSD 512 GB CD05N905213805V1L

Other Bios settings:

SATA Operation setting -- RAID on

Secure Boot setting -- not enabled

Fastboot setting -- minimallatest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=HmQno7FMltg:XX81ZqcmYa0:F7zBnMy latest?i=HmQno7FMltg:XX81ZqcmYa0:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=HmQno7FMltg:XX81ZqcmYa0:gIN9vFwHmQno7FMltg
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