Your referenced article on Hot Swapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-swapping indicates that we are talking
about 'Hot Plugging', not Hot Swapping.
So I will use the updated term. I am not 100% sure of the future, but the
article I found indicates that it was never intended to be used that way.
So far as external drives go, Early Mac's had external SCSI drives for easy
expansion, but plugging them in while the system was running would damage
the electronics.
Even though eSATA can be unplugged without damaging the electronics, the
logic of doing so must be considered... was this the boot drive? I would
not expect Vista to be able to do this anytime soon, nor XP without some
modifications to the device drivers (if available).
- B
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] esata
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
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