On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 09:37 -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 purchased SYBA Silicon Image SIL3114 from NewEgg, but > unfortunately, > had the same symptoms. The BIOS recognizes the PNY SATA drvie, but > the > Fedora 24 Live Cd disc does not recognize the drive and I am unable > to > insstall Fedora 24 to the PNY SSD. I also tried the CentOs 7.2 > install > disc and had the very same symptoms. If anyone else has an idea of > how > to proceed, I would surely appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Greg > -- Check the specifications of your SSD. Most likely the SSD supports SAT2 and 3 (resp 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s) but not the SATA1 (1.5Gb/sec). I checked the SIL3114 does only 1.5Gb/Sata1. So if your drive does not support that there is an incompatibility between the 2.... I checked Samsung and most (all?) their drives support SATA1. 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
