Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
What's a "sled drive"? Anyway, when the LCD broke on my main laptop, and I sent it for a repair, I took out the hard drive, put it in an external USB box and hooked it up on an Asus EEEpc 701. Except that I had to update the initramfs to include the usb drivers (ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usb_storage, sd_mod) I don't remember doing anything else special. fstab was already configured to mount by uuid, grub2 too. -- дамјан