A few months ago I upgraded my acer aspire laptop with an SSD.
I noticed people sold HDD caddies to fit into optical drive spaces in the laptop so opted for a 120Gb SSD as I intended to mount /home on the original plater.
Being cheap and lazy I've been running the SSD in the laptop and the HDD in a USB caddy.
This is working happily but is clearly not the nicest solution as I need to make sure I don't knock out the usb cable when I move the live system around.
Last week I recieved my optical caddy and began assembling it yesterday.
The system posted that it recognised both HDDs but, alas, then froze.
I was neither able to access the BIOS or BOOT menus.
I played around for a little while and can confirm:
a) Both drives work (load or complain about lack of OS) when installed to the laptops HDD bay.
b) The system fails to enter setup when either drive is installed in the caddy (with empty HDD bay).
c) The original optical drive works when installed in the bay.
My initial thought was that the caddy was duff but the fact that it's recognised as the system POSTs made me question this.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
I'm going to get back to the supplier to see if they've come across this before but as I couldn't find this case from a google search I opted to make a public record of the issue (and fingres crossed a solution).
[edit: clealy this is a question rather than discussion but I cannot amend this. Can a mod please make the correction.]
I noticed people sold HDD caddies to fit into optical drive spaces in the laptop so opted for a 120Gb SSD as I intended to mount /home on the original plater.
Being cheap and lazy I've been running the SSD in the laptop and the HDD in a USB caddy.
This is working happily but is clearly not the nicest solution as I need to make sure I don't knock out the usb cable when I move the live system around.
Last week I recieved my optical caddy and began assembling it yesterday.
The system posted that it recognised both HDDs but, alas, then froze.
I was neither able to access the BIOS or BOOT menus.
I played around for a little while and can confirm:
a) Both drives work (load or complain about lack of OS) when installed to the laptops HDD bay.
b) The system fails to enter setup when either drive is installed in the caddy (with empty HDD bay).
c) The original optical drive works when installed in the bay.
My initial thought was that the caddy was duff but the fact that it's recognised as the system POSTs made me question this.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
I'm going to get back to the supplier to see if they've come across this before but as I couldn't find this case from a google search I opted to make a public record of the issue (and fingres crossed a solution).
[edit: clealy this is a question rather than discussion but I cannot amend this. Can a mod please make the correction.]