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

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 17 January 2016, Robert P. J. Day sent:
> 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. 

Are the other drive ports enabled in the BIOS?  And are they set to
detect a drive?

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

Boilerplate:  All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.

Linux servers are always being dæmonised...