On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:45:13AM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio > SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 > GB > CS1311 SSD drives. The bios was made by Phoenix; I did not identify > a > version number of the bios. I did not plan on keep the hard drive > installed and planned on just using the SSD. These machines were IDE > machines and only had two SATA ports on the motherboard. > > When I install the SSD the bios recognizes the Pny SSD properly, and > I > was able to set up the boot order without difficulty. > When I had to replace the MB of a similar, older system, I used a non- HP MB. Later when I wanted to beef it up, the new MB only had 2 SATA ports and I wanted to install more drives. So I purchased a really cheap SATA controller card. I got a store-brand SSD and to my surprise the MB controller did not see it but the cheap controller did. Blaming the store-brand SSD, I returned it and got a Crucial SSD. Same problem though. So it was the controller, not the SSD. MB controller worked fine with other SATA drives, but not with the SSD. Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon, That is helpful. I have tried everything I could think of as well as read on the internet. So far nothing is working. I think a cheap SATA controller card is my next step. Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
