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