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Dell up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com. 2.2.3 eSATA External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (eSATA) serves as an external interface for SATA technologies. For customers who want fast (up to 1.5Gbit/s), easyto-use external storage that has advanced features such as S.M.A.R.T. (SelfMonitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) protection, eSATA may be a good choice. eSATA devices are not bootable when BIOS is set to RAID mode and are not supported as a part of Virtual Disks when in RAID mode for S100. To operate eSATA devices in the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.8 environment, the BIOS mode must be manually switched from default (AHCI mode) to ATA mode. Mode ATA mode AHCI mode RAID mode (S100 enabled) Table 3. eSATA Modes Bootable Yes Yes No Hot-Pluggable Restrictions No Yes RHEL 4.8 is not supported. No Linux and Virtualization OS are not supported PowerEdge R210 Technical Guide 13

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Dell
PowerEdge R210 Technical Guide
13
up-to-date information, see the
Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge
Systems
on Dell.com.
2.2.3
eSATA
External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (eSATA) serves as an external
interface for SATA technologies. For customers who want fast (up to 1.5Gbit/s), easy-
to-use external storage that has advanced features such as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-
Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) protection, eSATA may be a good
choice.
eSATA devices are not bootable when BIOS is set to RAID mode and are not supported
as a part of Virtual Disks when in RAID mode for S100.
To operate eSATA devices in the Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
4.8 environment, the BIOS
mode must be manually switched from default (AHCI mode) to ATA mode.
Table 3.
eSATA Modes
Mode
Bootable
Hot-Pluggable
Restrictions
ATA mode
Yes
No
AHCI mode
Yes
Yes
RHEL 4.8 is not supported.
RAID mode (S100
enabled)
No
No
Linux and Virtualization OS are not
supported