Can pulling a drive out of esata dock while its running bad sectors

[alohascott]

can pulling a drive out of esata dock while its running make bad sectors?

I had a bunch of drive problems within a day of getting esata dock.

 

[inzone]

Ditto ^. E-sata is not hot swapable and should only be unpluged when the computer is off.

 

[alohascott]

Best answer selected by alohascott.

 

[GhislainG]

Ditto ^. E-sata is not hot swapable and should only be unpluged when the computer is off.

eSATA is hot swappable if the system is configured properly (AHCI drivers and a controller that supports hot swapping).

 

[WyomingKnott]

eSATA is hot swappable if the system is configured properly (AHCI drivers and a controller that supports hot swapping).

Yep. But we have to remind people of the basic principle - Don't remove it until you use Safely Remove Hardware to flush any write buffers.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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