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    Has anyone tried the esata port on the 78XX series?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by k9hydr4, Jun 19, 2009.

  1. k9hydr4

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    Has anyone successfully connected an esata external HD?
     
    k9hydr4, Jun 19, 2009
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    Yeah my cousin hooked up to my external to download about 3GB worth of documents on his 7805. Worked like a charm
     
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    Same here, worked fine.
     
    Kazeari, Jun 19, 2009
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    Mine works fantastic. I just bought a Seagate 1 TB eSATA drive.
     
    sparkyman2000, Jun 19, 2009
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    Thanks guys! At least now I know the technology is not dead-
     
    k9hydr4, Jun 20, 2009
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    I don't have a 78XX but on my 172x the eSATA has always worked fine. I have a Addonics eSATA port multiplier with a Seagate 1TB Freeagent pro and a dual HDD dock plugged into it.
     
    BlackSheep5, Jun 20, 2009
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    My three drives connects and works just fine. If you have an Oxford 3 interface chip, firewire ,sata, usb, you may have slow speed problems and you cannot read smart data. The Oxfords are used in Seagate and many other external drives. Typical speeds with adapter; 70-80 MB/sec or 30 MB/sec without Express adapter using my Seagate xTream case on eSata.

    My work around is to use an expresscard adapter, drive dock or non Oxford chip set. I'm also curious to see if Gateway upgraded their chip set in the newer laptops to avoid this problem.

    M
     
    hydra, Jun 20, 2009
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    Mine Works too. Even with one of those adapters to change from IDE to sata, then I had a cable to go from sata to esata. Even with that hokie setup it works.
     
    JdgM3NT4L, Jun 21, 2009
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    Some here , works fine 70~75MB/s
     
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    For reference, what drive are you using?

    TIA
     
    hydra, Jun 21, 2009
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