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Current motherboards and bootable USB 2.0 IDE

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corinthos

Golden Member
I tried this on a recently released ACER notebook but during the boot process only got USB 1.1 performance:

1. connected IDE HD to an IDE->USB2.0 adapter and set the notebook BIOS to boot from it.
2 ran into problem where the BIOS's ability to detect that external drive was flaky (took
several reboots to be recognized and show up in BIOS's drive listing, then it wouldn't
be recognized and then several reboots later it would.)
3. booted up XP on that external drive, but only got USB 1.1 performance until XP was
fully loaded, at which point I think it performed at USB 2.0.

I was wondering if this is common with current motherboard BIOSes. I want to be able to hook up an external IDE drive via USB and boot up Linux, so I can configure a Linux system on a separate physical drive and remove it and boot back into XP when I need to access it.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences and naming some boards on which this is confirmed to work.
 
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