On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2009-09-24, James Ausmus <james.aus...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > > I'm don't think that the connectors are different enough to > > care about - I had (in a previous life/system) a PCI SATA > > interface card that had both internal SATA and an eSATA > > connector, and when I ran out of regular internal SATA > > connectors, I just used a regular SATA cable, plugged into the > > eSATA port, then ran the cable back in through an empty > > expansion slot in the case, and hooked it up to a regular > > internal SATA driver - worked like a champ... ;) > > The two connector types are supposed to be physically > incompatible, but we'll take your word for it that you can make > them mate. > It may very well be that the cheap adapter card I bought decided that having a SATA port on the outside made it an eSATA port, as I didn't run into any difficulty in plugging in the regular SATA cable. ;) -James
