On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:04:42AM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:45:13AM -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 went to Fry's yesterday to pick up SATA controller card and the Fry's > expert told me that their SATA controllers did not work with Linux. > Can you look up the name of the SATA card that you used and publish > it. > > Thanks, > > Greg
Silicon Image SiL 3124 PCI-X SATA RAID Controller When I ran the simple "hdparm -t" tests on the same convevtional disks the add-in controller had about 75% the performance of the MB controller. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
