eSATA on an Intel mobo?

[DeaconFrost]

I've never used eSATA before, so I'm a bit confused about something. I would assume the computer would treat the drive as an internal, SATA drive, so I'm guessing I wouldn't have the same disconnect options for one as I would with a USB drive, which is treated as removeable storage? I'm going to be connecting a 1 TB back up drive to my servr at home, and would like to use eSATA, unless I wouldn't have the option to manually disconnect the drive.

I should mention, that the OS will be Windows Server 2008 x64, and the SATA controllers will be set to AHCI.

 

[Asposium]

not quite answering your question i appreciate, but in the absense of any other replies...

i have an asus p5e64 ws evolution, eSATA is via a marvel chip. running xp
external drive is an seagate 1tb extreme eSATA/USB/FW combo

i haven't "un-plugged" it as such, but i have turned on/off the power whilst the computer was running. purely by accident i might add. usually leave the drive plugged in if the comp is on. there were no ill effects to either drive or system.

i could test it properly if you wish???

 

[Stereodude]

You may be able to use this utility to stop eSATA drive on your Intel controller for safe removal. It works fine for me on my ICH10R under XP. In my other PC my eSATA ports are connected to a Jmicron / Gigabyte controller. On it they will show up under the standard Windows XP remove hardware icon so that utility isn't needed.