I don't know. I do know that it is a standard. You plug your ESATA cable into the motherboard port, and then into your ESATA supported external drive which should have it's own independent power supply.
If you are attempting to plug a bare SATA drive into a ESATA port then it will not work. If you are attempting to do that then just use a regular long SATA cable from the motherboard, with a regular long power cable from the PC power supply outside your case.
At 12:51 PM 4/9/2012, you wrote:
Got it thanks. Now next question: Does this port support both 12v and 5v power? It's a JMB362 controller on an Asus P8Z68 gen 3 MB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] External power eSTATa At 11:44 AM 4/9/2012, you wrote: >I'm confused about my power esata port. Does this port require a >special cable? yes >If I want to connect an externalpowered esata dock, will a normal >esata cable work? you mean a normal SATA cable? ..... then no Get a ESATA cable at http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=ESATA&x=0&y=0
