On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:56:16AM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 30/10/10 16:34, Anthony Anson wrote:
Not with hot-plugging ones AFAIK, but I have found that with the Eee (or maybe with Xandros, or just Xandros running on an Eee) that sometimes, after removing a device (properly), USB is totally usless until the box is rebooted.
Yes but we aren't talking about USB mass storage here so your results aren't all that relevant. esata goes in by exactly the same mechanism as the internal disk not USB external ones.
Something else that's passed me by then - the onlt external HDDs I've seen plug into USB - and there may be a Firewire version for all I know. So where do you plug it in?
Into (surprise!) an eSata socket, my desktop machine has one on the front, the Acer Revo has one and my wife's Dell Vostro V13 laptop has one, they're becoming 'standard fitment'.
On the Dell Vostro V13 the eSata socket is *also* a USB socket, so there's one dedicated USB socket and a USB/eSata dual-purpose one.