eSata Is Not Hot-Swap?

If it’s not, then to me that defeats much of the point
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=794>.

Nobody should be introducing new external connectors to PCs that aren’t hot-
pluggable. We left all that nonsense behind with SCSI.

 

It is for me, just tell windows to remove the device in the tray, tells
me I can remove it, unplug it.

Plug a drive in and within a few seconds it autolaunches.

It doesnt do that if you use IDE emulation, for obvious reasons that IDE
is not swappable, but a refresh in device manager will have it finding a
new drive, and unplugging when not writing to it seems to have minimal
ill effect, unless you are dumb enough to have a drive formatted in FAT

 

Yep, same for me. My desktop machine has one fixed (system) drive and four
SATA HDD bays. I did have to download a little app that allows me to stop
them, (I'm running XP on it) similar to a USB 'safely remove' thing that
sits in the systray.

Mmm. I'm using ACHI mode, on both my desktop and my laptop.
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