This is what I use in my Dell desktop to get eSATA
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It just worked from day one in WinXP with no additional software
required. The drives can be turned on and off after boot just like USB
devices. One can also boot from these drives if initially turned on and
selected in the BIOS. The drives most frequently attached are 500 GB
Seagates.
But it doesn't work for everyone. The page above includes the comments
from the minority of users who have rated it #1 (low) on a scale of 1-5.
It seems not to work with certain drives and especially with people
who bought it hoping to build a RAID configuration.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/22/2011 1:54 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011, at 08:49 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> If you did hook it up as an eSATA drive perhaps your BIOS would be
>> forthcoming with some more options. ???
>
> Further developments. I actually located documentation on the PCIe card
> and it points to some files that need to be loaded in order for it to
> boot from the dock. It would not have occurred to me to look for the
> docs had I not installed Win7 on the SATA 0 drive and seen a bunch of
> yellow ??? in device manager for the card. MS had drivers for it after
> all, but it got me to poke my head through the docs. Perhaps I will be
> able to boot that drive via eSATA rather than USB 2.0 eventually.
>
> Anyway, thanks for engaging with me on this stuff, Chuck. My one
> lingering issue is that BIOS is not currently able to identify the SATA
> 1 drive I put in for data, and I get a "Strike F1 to continue, F2 for
> setup" message during a cold boot. Fortunately, the drive works just
> fine.
>
> Joel W.
>
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