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  3. April 2011

Re: Dell Latitude E series & docking station eject?

Glenn Hopwood wrote:
I have a Dell E6410 and when I asked a Dell rep about the undock options
I was told that as long as you have Win7 on it you don't need and
shouldn't have a software 'undock' function. He told me that 'hot
undocking' was supported.

Yeah, that's false.

The undock function tells the OS that you're about to disconnect bus connected devices ... like eSata drives (which can have write caching enabled). What happens when you disconnect such a device without preparing it first? You loose data.

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754084.aspx

david


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