External hard-drive formatting problems

[Ed Greshko]

arora.himanshu at gmail.com 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.