[Novalug] ARRG!! Strange SSD Revisited

[Barnett Hsu]

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On 12/23/2010 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> A few days ago I started a short thread (Strange SSD)
> describing my problems trying to install Fedora 14
> on a Solid State Disk (MicroCenter house brand, 64GB).
> Feeling that drive may have been defective I returned
> it and purchased a similar drive from a different
> manufacturer (OCZ Agility 2).
> 
> The new drive is acting the same way as first; after
> seeming to work it shifts from looking to the system
> as a SATA II interface to a SATA I.  The system thinks
> it has no partitions, 0 capacity and all I/O fails.

As I haven't had time to read my home e-mail lately, I've
only just read this thread about SSD install problems.
The odd thing is, it's awfully similar to the problems
I was having trying to install Fedora 13 on an OCZ
during the summer.

I was trying to use the OCZ in a self-built Core 2 Quad
system with an EVGA motherboard.  Didn't matter which
distribution I used, I couldn't get a successful install.
The end result was that I was able to install Ubuntu 10.04
on the OCZ SSD when I plugged it into an external USB dock
and plugged the dock into my Toshiba laptop.

I then got a Kingston SSD and put that into the self-built
desktop and was able to successfully install Fedora 13
on that.  Not sure why the Kingston SSD worked but the OCZ
SSD didn't.

In any case, here's links to my threads in the NOVALUG
mailing list archive:
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/2010-July/110390.html
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/2010-July/110438.html
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/2010-August/110594.html


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Barnett Hsu
bhsu at acm.org
http://www.systemarchive.com/


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