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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:38:03
Message-Id: 4D0A8314.2010903@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging. by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> OK. I'm not going to argue the point. All I know is this, the cable that
6 >> came with the case will plug into any SATA connector on my mobo. There is
7 >> nothing marking a eSATA port on there.
8 >>
9 > There's nothing to argue. On your motherboard all ports are eSATA compatible.
10 >
11 > On my DH55HC only two of the 6 are eSATA compatible:
12 >
13 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageGallery.aspx?CurImage=13-121-396-TS&SpinSet=13-121-396-RS&ISList=13-121-396-Z01%2c13-121-396-Z02%2c13-121-396-Z03%2c13-121-396-Z04%2c13-121-396-Z05&S7ImageFlag=1&Item=N82E16813121396&Depa=0&WaterMark=1&Description=Intel%20BOXDH55HC%20LGA%201156%20Intel%20H55%20HDMI%20ATX%20Intel%20Motherboard
14 >
15 >
16 > In the picture you can see 6 ports on the upper right. 4 are black, 2
17 > are red. The two red ones are the only ones eSATA compatible.
18 >
19 > Your machine is put together perfectly AFAICT.
20 >
21 > Cheers,
22 > Mark
23 >
24 >
25
26 You have red and black connectors where mine are blue. Yours physically
27 look like mine except for the colors. They have the same L shape
28 thingy. Spell checker don't like thingy so I need to trademark that
29 word. lol
30
31 http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5640/201012070003cutscale.jpg
32
33 That is my rig but I have added a couple things since then. I also
34 moved the ram to the outer slot. My CPU fan was rubbing on it a bit. I
35 got to get shorter sticks for the inner slots. The red wire that can
36 barely be seen is the cable that goes to the front eSATA plug. That pic
37 doesn't show it well at all tho.
38
39 Dale
40
41 :-) :-)