On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 08:04 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > 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, > > I went to Fry's yesterday to pick up SATA controller card and the > Fry's > expert told me that their SATA controllers did not work with Linux. > Can you look up the name of the SATA card that you used and publish > it. > > Thanks, > > Greg > -- Why do you not replace the SSD that works with SATA-1 (1.5g)? the PNY does only Sata2 or 3. Just check for the SATA 1.5 support (I checked Samsung for the 850 EVO and accoding to http://www.samsung.com/semicond uctor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/850evo.html tha drive is backward compatible with SATA 1.5). Now if you want to replace the controller, check what chip it uses and see if that is supported by Linux. I think most are nowadays.... 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
