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

[Fred Erickson]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:25:00 -0500
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> 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

I don't have a machine with UEFI firmware only BIOS. But, if BIOS/UEFI
doesn't see a drive, the OS isn't going to be able to see it either.