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Hi Is it possible to test the drive please? Thanks Rich On 17 March 2016 at 09:52, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > some older laptops crash using SATA III 3Gb or better drives ,as they don't all > work* well if the controller is only a SATAII 1.5GB . sometimes its just a problem > due to cheap connector ribbons but some are a bug in the controller. > > basically the ssd is too fast and the controller gets in a pickle or the > interferance on the ribbon leads to checksum problems. > > Its not an issue with anything I've used in the last few years ... it only really > applies to old hardware. usually dell or apple. > > *they are supposed to be backward compatible > > > they also the possibility its just a bad drive. > >> On 17 Mar 2016, at 08:05, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Thanks Nick. Any reason why it might be crashing please? >> >> On 17 March 2016 at 08:04, Nick Roach <nick.roach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Morning Richard, >>> >>> You should not need anything special, I have done a few ubuntu installs onto >>> SSD's, not sure about the home drive part as never tried. >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> On 17 March 2016 at 08:00, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> A couple of questions. >>>> >>>> I have a laptop with an ssd installed as the boot disk. It has Ubuntu >>>> 15.10 installed but it keeps stopping when loading the desktop and >>>> telling me the application has stopped. Do I need to do anything >>>> special for a ssd install please? >>>> >>>> Also is it possible to allocate the 2nd hard drive (in the dvd drive) >>>> as /home please? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -- >>>> Kind regards >>>> >>>> Richard Brown >>>> Youth and Community Worker >>>> http://gucu.org.uk/ >>>> 07747 343637 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >>>> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >>>> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >>> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >>> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards >> >> Richard Brown >> Youth and Community Worker >> http://gucu.org.uk/ >> 07747 343637 >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- Kind regards Richard Brown Youth and Community Worker http://gucu.org.uk/ 07747 343637 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq