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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?
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On Tue, 14 May 2013, RW wrote:

> On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
> Robert Huff wrote:
>
>>
>> Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
>>
>>>  3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
>>>  should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
>>
>> 	I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB (which may
>> be ASrock as well), but I don't believe I had to do anything other
>> hand make sure eSATA was enabled.
>
> I don't there there is any difference between SATA and eSATA above the
> physical layer. I'm not sure what that setting would do.

At a guess, it could connect one of the internal SATA ports to the eSATA 
connector.