Thanks Jim. Yes, I'm afraid I've got these drives in enclosures
littered all over the place.
My new laptop lacks an eSATA port, but it has USB 3.0 and I've got an
adapter coming soon that will allow me to hook back up to the eSATA
devices. The dock I have offers both eSATA and USB ports. The USB,
however, is 2.0. It's pretty fast, but the eSATA throughput is
indistinguishable from the drives in the bays.
I'm not sure why Chuck says that the dock when hooked up via USB is not
a USB device. What would a USB device then be? Flash drive? Is that
it? Since the computer gets partway through the boot process, it must
be seeing it as a USB device from which it can boot. Perhaps you are
correct about its being eSATA that is the problem because there is a
setting in BIOS to boot from an IDE HD, which suggests that the drive
type matters in this circumstance.
Joel W.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011, at 02:49 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Joel,
>
> I use a similar setup consisting of a Dell Dimension 4700 running XP/SP4,
> an
> eSATA card, and a single eSATA drive in a powered, fan-cooled enclosure.
> However, I use the drive as a photo storage drive, to contain all of my
> image files. At present, I have no interest in placing a bootable drive
> in
> the enclosure, but will keep watch for your comments if you find a way to
> make it work.
>
> I would suspect that the eSATA path presents a different interface, for
> which the "Boot from USB device" command is not prepared to deal with.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 2:08 PM
> Subject: [OM] [OT] Booting from an eSATA drive
>
>
> > Do any of you Windows adepti boot occasionally from an eSATA drive in an
> > enclosure or dock?
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