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mrjwalsh

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Registered: 2007-01-08

Posts: 52

Installing Arch on external esata?

Hi all,
Has anyone installed Arch on a external hdd using esata yet? I was going to install it on a USB2.0 connection but theres alot more bandwidth on esata and apparently USB2 can't spin the hard drive down, so it's constantly maxed out, which I guess means a shorter life.

I assumed esata will make the drive look exactly like an internal sata drive...

Any success stories let me know, thanks.

xploded101

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 11

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Re: Installing Arch on external esata?

No reason why it shouldn't work as long as the boot sequence is set in the correct order.

mrjwalsh

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Registered: 2007-01-08

Posts: 52

Re: Installing Arch on external esata?

Alrighty, I got my esata drive working fine, another question though...

Could I install Arch on my esata drive on one machine, then plug it in and configure it on another different machine? I know theres no way in hell you can do this with Windows but maybe Linux is kinder.