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??windows can tell the difference between Sata & eSata? (AHCI enabled)
question's in the title
so AHCI is enabled in bios & installed in windows (iastor & all that) so as to enable hotswapping
I just noticed that:
1) if I hotplug in a (internal) hard drive into sata, the new drive letter will appear in explorer just as it should, then it will disappear when I remove the drive
so far nothing unusual
BUT:
2) if I put that drive into an external eSata-compatible enclosure (like some iof the Icy Box brand external enclosures) and plug that into my mainboard's eSata port, then the drive letter will still appear in explorer (as it should)
BUT the little icon in the lower-right part of the screen will also appear - as if I plugged in an external usb drive!!!! (it doesn't appear when I plug the drive internally, into normal internal sata)
in other words windows treats an eSata drive like a usb drive!
so how can it tell between esata & sata since esata is supposed to be "transparent"???
(that's the whole f point of esata: make an external drive look like just another internal sata drive)
and more importantly how can I fix that?