HD maker makes a Linux HD

[Garrett Goebel]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 08:35 am, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> 
> > My brand spanking new Toshiba Tecra M2 can't... [boot from USB 
> > devices]
> 
> See if there's a BIOS update available.

I called Toshiba, they said they couldn't provide a BIOS update because the
underlying hardware support wasn't there.

Okay I looked it up.

You have to have a USB to ATA bridge controller that acts as a USB to ATA
translator. Without this you can't access a USB HDD except via USB legacy
floppy mode emulation. My guess is that the USB keychain distributions are
setup like CD bootable distro's. I.e., they boot a floppy image and
bootstrap the OS and USB device access from there.

Several workstation motherboards on the market have USB to ATA translators.
Very few laptops do. In fact, the only laptop I found reference to is the
IBM T41.
 
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