On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:31:13AM -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > What are the difficulties of getting an ide drive in a usb enclosure > to boot? It will be running Windows ME (gag). Do I have to look for > anything special when shopping for the enclosure? (I have the drive.) > > This is my present idea of how to use my HP S20 scanner. It ran fine > when I dual-booted to Windows ME, but switching to VirtualBox (Ubuntu > host) and Win 2k stopped that.
A couple of years ago, some IDE to USB interface chips would not work with Linux, only Windows. Usually, these chipsets violated the USB standard and counted on a Windows driver to work around that. Available chipsets have changed, kernels have improved, so I don't know how things are now. Test things first if you can. After that, booting from USB must be enabled by the laptop or motherboard BIOS, and the USB interface will need to follow standards for the BIOS USB to work. USB boot can be a little tricky - often you have to go into the BIOS each time you want to boot from USB. That said, I have booted from both USB hard drives and flash drives with newer motherboards. If you want to use a large SATA drive, then the Vantec Nextar "drive toaster" is an interesting way to go. Some other brands will not handle a >500GB drive. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
