Anyone use SSD?

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I built a new I7 950 system with an ASUS Rampage lll Formula board around the end of 2010. The board comes with 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. I installed a Crucial C300 2.5" 64GB SATA 3.x MLC Int. SSD as my boot drive. The system rocks. The only thing is when I try to boot from a PClinoxOS live CD I can't see the SSD drive so it won't use it for the bootloader. Anyone got some ideas?

[rubentje1991]

You're booting PCLinuxOS 2010.12 KDE live-cd?

There are some folks around here with some experience with SSDs (and PCLinuxOS) - even Texstar I think;
a little patience, and they come around probably


You can do a little search about the topic on the forum.... (probably you did already)
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83629.msg694995.html#msg694995
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,88707
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,84857.0.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89980.msg754484.html#msg754484
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89569.msg753512.html#msg753512
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=87565.0

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Wow.... 188 views one reply... Sigh!!

[Just18]

I built a new I7 950 system with an ASUS Rampage lll Formula board around the end of 2010. The board comes with 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. I installed a Crucial C300 2.5" 64GB SATA 3.x MLC Int. SSD as my boot drive. The system rocks. The only thing is when I try to boot from a PClinoxOS live CD I can't see the SSD drive so it won't use it for the bootloader. Anyone got some ideas?

I don't understand   

The liveCD has its own bootloader .....

[coco]

I have a pclinuxos installed on an SDHC card (with PCLinuxOS 2011.6 KDE live-cd) and boot without any problems from it. You can install pclinuxos on a disk ssd.

[Texstar]

I built a new I7 950 system with an ASUS Rampage lll Formula board around the end of 2010. The board comes with 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. I installed a Crucial C300 2.5" 64GB SATA 3.x MLC Int. SSD as my boot drive. The system rocks. The only thing is when I try to boot from a PClinoxOS live CD I can't see the SSD drive so it won't use it for the bootloader. Anyone got some ideas?

I have PCLinuxOS on a WD 128 Gig SSD hard drive which was detected by the LiveCD and it rawks with 12 second boot to desktop. It appears ldetect cannot determine the correct sata driver to load for your Crucial drive to be seen. You can try modprobe as root the following sata drivers from the LiveCD then check diskdrake to see if the drive shows up.

modprobe sata-inic162x
modprobe sata-mv
modprobe sata-nv
modprobe sata-promise
modprobe sata-qstor
modprobe sata-sil
modprobe sata-sil24
modprobe sata-sis
modprobe sata-svw
modprobe sata-sx4
modprobe sata-uli
modprobe sata-via
modprobe sata-vsc

The only other kernel driver that I can think of that might help is the ahci driver.

modprobe ahci
modprobe ahci-platform
modprobe libahci

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Thanks for the heads up Textsar, I'll try that and post back.