On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:44:30 -0800, Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote:
This leads me to believe that the BIOS does understand about external USB hard drives that are plugged in to some USB port on the laptop.
Right so far.
(and I assume also eSata drives plugged in to a USB/eSata port)
And here you err. These are two electrically different ports that just happen to share one connection. To the machine these are different ports so a BIOS option for external USB will most certainly not mean a drive connected as eSATA. These combined ports are mostly meant for drives that connect as eSATA but draw their power from the USB bus as the eSATA designers totally forgot about that. My experience shows that eSATA drives are enumerated like internal drives so you still have to find out the device that gets assigned to the disk.
devices listed... To my untrained eyes, that seems inconsistent as I had the USB/eSata hard drive plugged in when I rebooted the laptop and brought up the BIOS menu...
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