On September 23, 2015 8:35:55 AM PDT, auxsvr
On Wednesday 23 of September 2015 09:23:36 Felix Miata wrote:
eSATA backplane ports have all but disappeared from available new motherboards. Do converters/adapters like these[1] provide hotplug capability with newer motherboard SATA ports?
[1] http://www.monoprice.com/category?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040707
I bought one of these and wondered about the same question some years ago. SATA connectors are hot-pluggable, but the corresponding controllers (or their drivers) need not be, especially if they're old. If your motherboard SATA controller is hot-pluggable, so should be the eSATA adapter you connect to it, as far as I know. I've been using one on this computer without problems so far.
But do you ever hot plug anything? Most people don't even do that unless there is a rear panel or front panel connector on your case. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org