On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and (reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.ht...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
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a little more digging, and i ran across this:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?79590-Issue-with-M-2-SSD-in-ASUS-R...
"What SSD are you using? I know that there is an incompatibility between the Samsung Pro 950 and the G752 series. Ive been able to get it to work but with a few issues."
grrrrrrrr ... so the very SSD i purchase turns out to be incompatible. drat. however, apparently, there are a couple others that will work:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM951-256GB-AHCI-MZHPV256HDGL-00000/dp/B00VELD... http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM951-512GB-AHCI-MZHPV512HDGL-00000/dp/B00VELD...
so, maybe i'll take a chance.
rday