Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:44:30 -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
(and I assume also eSata drives plugged in to a USB/eSata port)
And here you err. These are two electrically different ports that just happen to share one connection. To the machine these are different ports so a BIOS option for external USB will most certainly not mean a drive connected as eSATA. These combined ports are mostly meant for drives that connect as eSATA but draw their power from the USB bus as the eSATA designers totally forgot about that.
My experience shows that eSATA drives are enumerated like internal drives so you still have to find out the device that gets assigned to the disk.
Philipp has said much more clearly what I meant :) In addition Marc wrote:
The BIOS is configure so that the boot sequence is first from a CD/DVD drive, then from a USB drive, then from the internal hard drive.
In my limited experience, when there is a BIOS choice of "internal hard drive" or the like, then there is a separate BIOS choice for the order in which the internal disks are to be considered, perhaps buried on a different page. It seems likely that your esata port is somewhere in that menu, and is either not selected or is selected after your internal disk. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org