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.