Missing SSD drive

My Dell G5 box has 2 drives. a.) 128 GB M 2PCle SSD + b.) 2TB SATA HDD.
When I look in the system setup both drives are correctly reported and checked as being available.
When I installed Manjaro the SSD is not showing at all.
[davidvj@DELL ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
run 7.8G 1.5M 7.8G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 1.8T 779G 961G 45% /
tmpfs 7.8G 103M 7.7G 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 7.8G 47M 7.8G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 300M 280K 300M 1% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1.6G 76K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
…
gparted does not show this SSD drive.
I want to install Manjaro on the SSD and /home on the HHD
How do I activate the SSD?

Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

[davidvj@DELL ~]$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for davidvj:
Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
2 317MB 2000GB 2000GB ext4

In BIOS, is it set for AHCI or RST/optane/raid ? AHCI is needed for Linux

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Many thanks … switched over to AHCI and the SSD is now visible.
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