arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > I purchased SATA hard-drive and external hard-drive enclosure > separately. I want to install ext2 fs on to it. Though other machine is > able to detect it when I connect the hard-drive to the motherboard > directly. But my computer is not detecting it at all when I connect it > to the machine with its enclosure as external hard-drive. Would be > grateful if you let me know how to solve this problem. When you plug it in, (USB?), take note of what is recorded in /var/messages and post the results.