Re: Cheap and cheer full SATA controller

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 20:52 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Mon 14 Nov 2011 10:02:31 NZDT +1300, Jaco wrote:
> 
> > Using a STLabs PCIe card from PBTech ATM - works fine.

I've used a tonne of these cards around the place, work nice, cheap as
chips. :-)


> > I've not used (external) eSATA much on my machines, and the few
> > times I have I've had less-than-desirable experiences.
> 
> What were the problems? There shouldn't be any functional difference
> between eSATA and SATA. If th ehotplug support works, plugging in a disk
> behaves the same as plugging in a USB storage device (except that the
> USB performance sucks, which is why I use disk swap caddies). 

Most of the issues I've seen with ESATA is with the handling of on/off.

I find with my nexstar dock, even if the disk is unmounted, if I
disconnect ESATA whilst the disk is running, the OS gets unhappy and
thinks it's been removed uncleanly.

If I first power off the disk via the dock's on/off button and THEN
remove the disk, it all runs fine.

The eject command never seemed to make any difference for me with this
behaviour.

But it is entirely possible that it's something specific to my
controller / disk / dock / OS combination, rather than a system wide
ESATA problem.


regards,
jethro

-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com
www.amberdms.com

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