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Recommended hot-plug eSATA PCI cards?



Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> ...need a PCI card that support
> hot-plugging of an external eSATA-capable USB drive.
> Which models do you use and what would you recommend?

This has been covered before in the BLU archives:
http://old.nabble.com/hot-swap-eSATA-td18900910s24859.html


Peter Petrakis wrote:
> eSATA is hotpluggable by design. It's not card that's the problem,
> it's the driver and/or the userspace tools which manage the mounting.

Right.

See also Dan Ritter's post:
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-hot-swap-eSATA-p18901531s24859.html

  -Tom

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