[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[Boris Borisov]

I've never done that setup. But I do have 120 GB SSD and recently bought
USB enclose for it. Up give it a shoot tonight.



On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 6:47 PM William Wylde <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:

> It has a dongle-type USB 3.1 cable attached directly into the device.  I
> plugged it directly into a USB 3.0 port on a riser card in my tower.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:53 PM Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How did you plug the SSD into USB port. What hardware you use for that?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:41 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm assuming this system does new-fangled EUFI boot. Poke in the startup
>>> stuff and look for boot devices. See if you can add that usb3 interface.
>>>
>>> On March 4, 2019 5:18:20 PM EST, William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So I bought a 250 gb external SSD (PNY USB 3.1), to plug into a usb 3.0
>>>> port on my computer- in the hopes that I could install Linux on the SSD.
>>>>
>>>> I had a dual-boot windows 7/xubuntu 18.02 system that was running just
>>>> fine, except the windows 7 system was basically hosed and slow, and I
>>>> needed it faster for gaming (the only real reason I had a windoze partition
>>>> at all).  And assuming that I could put Linux on the SSD, I went ahead and
>>>> bought a windoze 10 license along with a usb install stick and put it on my
>>>> main 1tb disk.  That went off without a hitch.
>>>>
>>>> BUT
>>>>
>>>> The bios in my computer doesn't see my PNY elite 250gb PSSD at all.  It
>>>> ees the usb 2.0 card reader, and will add it to the boot device list with
>>>> no problem- but the new external SSD is invisible to it.
>>>>
>>>> The drive itself is fine.   Windoze see's it with no problem, and it's
>>>> access time is what you'd expect from a usb 3.0 connected SSD.
>>>>
>>>> And now I can't get a xubuntu install CD or USB stick to work either.
>>>> They hang, and eventually the hdmi display will time-out and tell me that
>>>> there's no input from the computer.
>>>>
>>>> "Trusted computing" is turned off, and I can find no settings
>>>> concerning EHCI in the bios setup utility, so I'm at a loss.   Anybody have
>>>> a clue as to what I'm doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
>>>> always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
>>>> become great.”
>>>>
>>>> ― Mark Twain
>>>>
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> “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
> always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
> become great.”
>
> ― Mark Twain
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