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atc

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 17

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E-SATA support on Linux

Hi all,

It's been a long time since I've had a glance at the ever-so-fastly evolving hardware market. Recently though I've come to need an external hard drive. Researching options for that I've learned that there's a communication interface called E-SATA which is supposed to be faster than both Firewire and USB2.0.

Now, I use Arch on all of my three main computers, that is a laptop, a desktop computer and a server. My desktop computer actually supports the E-SATA interface so I'd obviously like to take advantage of that.

Question: Does Linux support the e-sata interface well enough for it to be reliable? How is its performance on Linux? Does it work like when I plug in my USB sticks and do a mount?

Right now, my impression of it is that it's currently a bit like ntfs-3g when it was unstable. Am I wrong?

I'd especially like to hear from people having actual experience with E-SATA on Linux, even better Arch Linux.

Thanks in advance.

mthode

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From: Atlanta, GA USA

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 55

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Re: E-SATA support on Linux

I think esata == sata to linux, nothing special.  I will test when I get home.

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Diaz

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 366

Re: E-SATA support on Linux

It works fine, i have esata on my desktop, and esata on my laptop, i always use them to connect an external hdd.

Linux will detect them just like a normal hdd like if it was internal.