On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 08:45 -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 tried to install Fedora 24 on the first machine the > installation > software did not identify the presences of the SSD. I also tried a > Centso 7.2 install disc and the SSD was not recognized with it as > well. > Just to make sure things were working, I added the hard drive back to > the machine, and the Fedora install routines did recognize the hard > drive but continued to fail to recognize the SSD. > > Are there preparatory things that I need to do with the SSD drives > that > I am missing? Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > According to https://www.pny.com/ssd-CS1311 the SSD suuports SATA-3 and is backward compatible with SATA2. The specs I found for the PC suggests that it is SATA (which I assume means SATA1). So it may be that the two are not compatible. Adding a separate SATA card (as suggested in another response) may be a way out... BR, Louis -- 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
