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Re: [OM] [OT] Booting from an eSATA drive

Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Booting from an eSATA drive
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:41:43 -0500
Keep trying.  I think you'll succeed eventually.

Chuck Norcutt


On 12/22/2011 1:54 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011, at 08:49 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> If you did hook it up as an eSATA drive perhaps your BIOS would be
>> forthcoming with some more options.  ???
>
> Further developments.  I actually located documentation on the PCIe card
> and it points to some files that need to be loaded in order for it to
> boot from the dock.  It would not have occurred to me to look for the
> docs had I not installed Win7 on the SATA 0 drive and seen a bunch of
> yellow ??? in device manager for the card.  MS had drivers for it after
> all, but it got me to poke my head through the docs.  Perhaps I will be
> able to boot that drive via eSATA rather than USB 2.0 eventually.
>
> Anyway, thanks for engaging with me on this stuff, Chuck.  My one
> lingering issue is that BIOS is not currently able to identify the SATA
> 1 drive I put in for data, and I get a "Strike F1 to continue, F2 for
> setup" message during a cold boot.  Fortunately, the drive works just
> fine.
>
> Joel W.
>
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