On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:18 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < [email protected]> 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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