internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all
Arun Khan
knura9 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 10 11:20:55 MST 2024
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:18 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at 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.
--
Arun Khan
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