We had this conversation a month or more ago. Remember? I don't have any
new reason to revisit it.
"Anna" <myname@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Assuming you are responding to my point about eSATA connections on a
>>> laptop I would certainly be interested to know which laptops have them.
>>> My Lenovo R50e certainly doesn't!
>>> --
>>> Jeff Gaines
>>> Damerham Hampshire UK
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jeff & Colin:
> Notebooks equipped with an eSATA port are indeed a rare commodity. To the
> best of my knowledge ASUS is the only major player that has released a few
> models with an eSATA port. I'm not aware of Acer, Dell, Gateway, Compaq,
> Sony, etc. having *any* models with an eSATA port. If they're out there,
> they're few & far between, that's for sure. More's the pity, of course.
>
> Some time ago I had occasion to work with one of the ASUS notebooks that
> came equipped with an eSATA port (I can't recall the model #) and we were
> able to boot from that port with a SATA HDD that had been the recipient of
> the cloned contents of the notebook's internal HDD. That was no surprise,
> of course, since every eSATA port that we've worked with on various
> desktop PCs have proven to be "bootable". (For that matter it really makes
> *no* difference whether the port is a "normal" SATA one or an eSATA one).
> A bootable external SATA HDD connected to either type of port will boot.
> Obviously we're talking about motherboards that support SATA capability.
>
> We have never been able to boot from a CardBus (a/k/a PCMCIA) equipped
> with either a SATA or eSATA port. We've concluded that it's just not a
> bootable device.
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> As I mentioned in my previous post, we're still experimenting with various
> ExpressCard devices to determine their potential "bootability". Every one
> we've come across is equipped with an eSATA port and they're supposed to
> provide boot capability. However, our experience has been mixed to date
> although we were able to boot from a SATA HDD connected to an Addonics
> eSATA ExpressCard.
>
> Colin, if you've had any direct experience with an eSATA ExpressCard I'd
> like to hear about it.
> Anna
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