On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:18 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I shut  down the machine so I could open it up and see which sata port
> that drive was plugged into.  I was wrong earlier when I said it was
> plugged into one of the sata ports on the motherboard.  It was plugged into
> an addon card that's plugged into a pcie slot. I have a trayless hot swap
> mobile rack I use for drives I use for backups.  I switched the two sata
> cables.  The internal drive now connects to the motherboard.  The hot swap
> rack connects to the sata addon card.  I rebooted and the internal drives
> don't show..  Apparently anything connected to the sata ports on the
> motherboard is treated as an internal drive and anything conneccted to an
> addon cars is treated as an external drive whether it is or not.
>

What is the "add-on" card and how is it connected to the motherboard?

lspci and lsusb may give more information to help understand the anomaly.

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Arun Khan