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how could that guy hook up an eSATA drive to his mac? As far as I can see, none of the currently available machines provide eSATA support. I thus assume that h
by pilif 17y ago
how could that guy hook up an eSATA drive to his mac? As far as I can see, none of the currently available machines provide eSATA support.
I thus assume that he was using OSX on a custom-built machine and it's very well possible that OSX doesn't have built-in eSATA support (due to the lack of official hardware) and thus doesn't recognize the external drives as external ones.
You see, when I plug a USB or Firewire drive into my Mac, Time Machine doesn't try to back them up.
- pmjordan 17y agoPresumably using either an ExpressCard (in a MacBook Pro) or PCIe (Mac Pro) eSATA controller. Not exactly what I'd call "custom built". Interesting though, that it recognises USB and Firewire as external, but not eSATA. I wonder if it supports hotplugging/ejecting of eSATA drives at all?
- lisper 17y agoI use an ExpressCard. It didn't even occur to me that a drive connected this way might appear to the OS to be an internal drive, but that actually makes a certain amount of sense.