e-sata question

[Donn]

On Sunday, 23 March 2008 19:39:35 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> In my BIOS i have three options for the controller, IDE, RAID and
> AHCI, i think that i need to set it to AHCI to be able to connect an eSATA 
drive. 
Thanks for the acronyms - they are useful to know.

>If the drive is found it should appear as a device under your
> dev-tree. Have you checked if you get any new devices when plugging it in?
If you mean go into /dev and do an ls... I find that directory bewildering! 
It's got loads of devices that seem to be placeholders. I will try to sort 
it, perhaps I'll see something appear on the end.

Thanks for the help.
\d