On Wednesday 11 October 2006 12:26, krishnakant Mane wrote: > I have a 40 g ide hard disk and I am aware that there are USB to > IDE converters available. > my idea was to convert this IDE hard disk to an external USB hard > disk. how viable is this?
Completely viable. > I know that the power would be a problem, Note a problem. get an adapter with power connector. > correct me if I am wrong > jtd. but USB pen drives > and external hard disks are all powered > from the USB port itself. Only pen drives and laptop hardisks. Regular hardisks have an external power adapter. > now on to the gnu/linux specifrics. > if my above idea is viable, will my hard disk be sda or hda? sdx where x is a to h, depending on what other scsi /usb stuff is connected > how will it be mounted? mount -t <filesystem> /dev/sdxn /<mountpoint> where x is as abv and n is the partition number. > and if I want to load a complete operating system like debian, will > it be possible? Absolutely. But it will boot only if the mobo bios supports usb booting and u have installed grub for the special case of usb booting. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
