At 1:51 AM -0400 7/18/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
PM G4 sawtooth.
external enclosure for my 320GB seagate drive about 2 months ago,
and then received anther one from tyler. I have the 320GB Seagate in
the enclosure right now, and while I was in the process of plugging
in the new 320GB Sata drive I got, i couldn't help to notice that I
had an eSata plug on my enclosure. I have a few questions about that:
1: Is there a connector cable that can plug into an eSata enclosure
and plug into an Internal Sata drive?
2: If I have a SATA plugged into the Esata port and inside the
enclosure, will Leopard see both drives or mount them as the same
drive but 2 partitions?
3; Is what I'm doing possible?
4: Where can I get myself a 2.5" Bracket for the HDD and an eSata to
Sata cable?
The purpose of the eSATA connector on the outside of the external
hard drive box NOT to connect another hard drive. It is to connect
to the eSATA connector on your computer. This would be instead of
using USB or Firewire. The eSATA connector on your computer would be
provided via a SATA PCI card.
SATA is primarily a point-to-point protocol. It is not daisy chained
or hubbed like USB or Firewire. If you have a SATA interface in your
PowerMac, then you would need a separate eSATA port and socket for
each of your external HD boxes.
- Dan.
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