Does anyone have experiencing using a dual slot external hard drive docking station with only one eSATA port on the back? Do both drives show up in the OS even though only one eSATA cable is connected? I'm curious because there's a dock I'm looking at that has 2 eSATA ports and many others that only have one. I'm thinking that the dock male connectors internally plug into "two" eSATA host and then are redirected to 1 single output but I want to be sure.
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The result is going to depend a lot on the hardware in the dock and on your motherboard. If the dock and your eSATA controller support port multipliers, you will have no issues at all.
If not, then you will not have plug & play capabilities on both drives. You couldnt add a 2nd drive to the dock later, as the OS wouldnt see it. They would both have to be there when the device is initialized. And if both were and you unmounted one, you wouldnt be able to remount it.
Im not sure, what would happen if only one side supported port multipliers...
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