Re: Dell Latitude E series & docking station eject?

According to their sales literature...
"Transition seamlessly to a desktop environment with the new E-Port and E-Port Plus docking solutions featuring true hot docking and undocking capabilities. Both docking solutions provide an expansive compliment of USB, powered eSATA and graphics ports."
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e6410/pd

I've done it without any obvious issues.

According to this link, at least some ThinkPads with Win 7 don't have the button either...
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/No-Undock-button-in-Windows-7/td-p/204364

I did notice that there is a registry hack to get the 'Undock' option back. YMMV.

Glenn

On 4/13/2011 1:21 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

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