On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:25:00 -0500 "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Fred Erickson <fredferickson@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:33:29 -0500 > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Quoting Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > >> > On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:03:16 -0500 > >> > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > > >> >> "dmesg" doesn't seem to see it, and neither does "lsblk" or > >> >> "lshw". any suggestions? > >> > > >> > This sounds almost like it has no power. Maybe something isn't > >> > making a good connection. Is there another machine you could try > >> > it in? If you are dual booting, does the other OS see it? > >> > >> no dual booting, and i have no other box to try it in, nothing > >> else i own has slots for that form factor of SSD. i'm trying to > >> figure out if there is some sort of H/W switch i need to throw. if > >> anyone else has a laptop that accepts that form factor, did you > >> need to do anything special to see it? > >> > >> rday > > > > Does the computer firmware see it? You didn't mention that so > > thought I'd ask. > > by "firmware", do you mean BIOS? no, it doesn't. the BIOS sees > both the primary (regular) hard drive, and the CD/DVD device. that's > it. > > or do you mean something else? > > rday I don't have a machine with UEFI firmware only BIOS. But, if BIOS/UEFI doesn't see a drive, the OS isn't going to be able to see it either. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org