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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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> "Anna" <myname@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 Quote:
>> >> there, they're few & far between, that's for sure. More's the pity, of
>> course.
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>> Some time ago I had occasion to work with one of the ASUS notebooks that Quote:
>> >> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Colin, if you've had any direct experience with an eSATA ExpressCard I'd
>> like to hear about it.
>> Anna
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We had this conversation a month or more ago. Remember? I don't have any Quote:
> > new reason to revisit it.
Colin:
No, I really don't recall our "conversation a month or more ago". But do I
detect a note of annoyance in your response? If so, may I ask why?
Anna