On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 10:39 +0100, WipeOut wrote: > I see lots of new PC's with eSATA connectors but I can't seem to find > much detail on it.. I know its an external SATA port and so has the > speed of SATA but what I can't seem to find out, and maybe someone can > help me here, is whether or not its hot plug like USB.. > > I am looking for an easy way to backup quite a lot of data regularly to > an external hard drive.. If eSATA is hot pluggable then its will be > great to have the speed to do the backups quickly.. If its not then I > guess I am stuck with USB.. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA>, it suggests hot plugging is possible with eSATA and SATA, but *YOUR* hardware has to support the feature. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
