[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[William Wylde]

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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> “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.”

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