yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and (reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit): ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency shell. i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung page for that drive: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro... thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something stupid i've done, it would be good to know. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================