On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:43:12 -0600, John McGuigan wrote:
> Two things that jump to mind are weirdness with Apple hardware (not sure
> this is the case or not) but I recall that in Bootcamp mode the EFI displays
> IDE devices instead of SATA in some cases. I remember Theo(?) mentioning
> this about a MacBookAir some time ago.
Not that. Both machines are ITX tiny (-ish) boxen running amd64 kernels
on intel hardware.
> The other is if you've modified the kernel previously with config(8), as
> you've said you copied it over from another machine.
No, this happened before copying the kernel. On its original machine,
the kernel brings up a similar (2.5") SATA hard drive as sd0. And, in
fact, since I used that machine to investigate the SSDs in question, it
also finds them as USB-hosted SCSI devices, sd1.
I'm not sure what sort of hardware would have to fail on the system
board for it to decide SATA drives aren't scuzzy enough.
Amy!
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I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather
like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something,
or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a
by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
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