working my way through quirks with fedora 23 on new ASUS gaming laptop G752VL-DH71

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Fred Erickson <fredferickson at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:33:29 -0500
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:03:16 -0500
>> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> >
>> >> "dmesg" doesn't seem to see it, and neither does "lsblk" or "lshw".
>> >> any suggestions?
>> >
>> > This sounds almost like it has no power. Maybe something isn't
>> > making a good connection. Is there another machine you could try it
>> > in? If you are dual booting, does the other OS see it?
>>
>>    no dual booting, and i have no other box to try it in, nothing else
>> i own has slots for that form factor of SSD. i'm trying to figure out
>> if there is some sort of H/W switch i need to throw. if anyone else
>> has a laptop that accepts that form factor, did you need to do
>> anything special to see it?
>>
>> rday
>
> Does the computer firmware see it? You didn't mention that so thought
> I'd ask.

   by "firmware", do you mean BIOS? no, it doesn't. the BIOS sees both the
primary (regular) hard drive, and the CD/DVD device. that's it.

   or do you mean something else?

rday