esata drive question

[Tim]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:47 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> I got a bracket with 2 eSATA connectors, on the inside are just 2 sata
> cables that connect to the motherboard sata ports. Works fine with F11
> and 2 Western Digital external hard drives. No PCI card required,
> unless you need some additional sata ports.

That may not work for all circumstances.  External SATA is supposed to
handle hotplugging, but that's not expected with internal SATA drives.
If an internal host supports hotplugging, consider that to be an
surprise bonus.

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