I installed Mandrake 10.1 on a new, "bare metal", PC. That seemed to go
well.
Then I put a Samsung 80 GB ide drive into a NexStar 3 enclosure,
partitioned it as one big partition and formated it as ext3 using the
wizard in Mandrake. When I rebooted with the NexStar plugged into a USB
2.0 port Konqueror wouldn't start and when I rebooted again KDE wouldn't
start. Also lots of things "failed" at reboot.
After some effort, including erasing the HD in the PC, I managed to
re-install Mandrake 10.1. Now I would like to use the NexStar/Samsung
external drive to move files from my old PC to my new one but I'm afraid
I'll have the same problem as before.
I suspect the problem lies in the way a set up the NexStar/Samsung
drive. When I assembled it I followed the recommendation in the NexStar
manual and left the "General pin setting" as "Master". Should I have
changed it to "Slave"? Also, I didn't change any BIOS settings: I just
hoped Mandrake would auto detect the new drive. Should I have changed a
BIOS setting?
My experience with external usb drives have always been with the master pin
set -- I have never come across one where the slave was set. Like the
other respondent had advised, you need to look at the Bios setting with
regard to boot sequence.
On one of my external units and computer combination however on a windoze
environment, I have a similar situation where it would refuse to boot. I
was about to rebuild the os until I discovered that with the external usb
drive unplugged, it booted up fine. As soon as the bootup sequence started
(pass the bios and boot sector read), I could plug the usb drive back in
and everything worked fine. This appears to be a problem with only that
specific hard drive / external usb enclosure combination.
HTH
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