Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

[Andrea Conti]

> E-SATA != SATA !!!!

Nah. They are *exactly* the same.

Evidently someone realized that the original SATA connector is way too 
fragile to be regularly used to plug/unplug a cable by hand, so they 
engineered in some features which make it a bit more resilient. But 
apart from the shape of the connector there is really no difference.

(Well, in the old days of SATAI not many chipsets supported hotplug; 
often boards came with a couple of eSATA ports wired to a separate chip 
with hotplug support. But on virtually all new boards all ports support 
hotplug).

andrea