Quote Originally Posted by bgraves View Post
Surprised to see that my UD7, Windows 7 64 bit Pro:
Plugged in a running, externally powered SATA drive into the rear ESata/USB 3 ports. Nothing happens until I reboot!

Once Windows sees the drive, if I unplug Windows doesn't notice.
Arn't Esata ports hot-pluggable?
Under XP with a PCI Sata/Esata card all of this worked fine!!!!

anyone know better?
I used the on board esata port once,
once the driver was loaded and used my Ethernet ports were unusable.
don't know why, never tried it again, my external drive also supports USB2 so i use that instead.