On Sun, January 25, 2009 5:02 pm, centos at 911networks.com wrote: > Does anybody has any experience with e-sata on CentOS5.2? > > - How fast is it? Same as an internal sata? > - Does it support sata-2? > - Does it "hot-plug" like a USB? I use one ExpressCard eSATA II controller with a laptop under CentOS 5. The controller requires reboot in order to be recognized (at least I don't know a way to make it work any other way), but the disks are hot-pluggable just like with USB. No idea how the speed compares to internal SATA. Marko