In case anyone is wondering if their motherboard (chipset) supports<br>pluggable eSATA or not, check this table.<br><br>lspci should tell you what your computer is running and from there, <br>you can tell if you have the PMP feature support or not.<br>
<br><a href="https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features">https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features</a><br><br># lspci | grep -i ata<br>00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)<br>
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