Unlike PATA, both SATA and eSATA are designed to support hot-swapping. However, this feature requires proper support at the host, device (drive), and operating-system level. In general, all SATA/devices (drives) support hot-swapping <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-swapping> (due to the requirements on the device-side), but requisite support is less common on SATA host adapters <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_adapter>
That's from wiki on esata...untrue? I've never heard that esata was not hot swappable, I mean isn't that the point of external drives? Mike On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [CGUYS] esata > > > > I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have >> the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list >> for >> drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps a >> BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. >> > > SATA (and by extension eSATA) are expected (by applications and the > operating system) to act like a PATA drive... which is typically available > from boot to shut down. Yes, you can 'hot swap' all of these drives if you > use a RAID configuration and a RAID controller, but that is not what Mike > intends to do here. I think Mike wants the ability to put a completely > different data volume on the same eSATA port without rebooting. > > ^ "A comparison with Ultra ATA Technology" (PDF). SATA-IO. Retrieved on > 2007-07-12. > > - Brian > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
