Re: Dell Latitude E series & docking station eject?

Glenn Hopwood wrote:

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.

I think you're operating on borrowed time there ... if you've got a devices that's writing data, and you kill connection, only one thing can happen. Data corruption. This isn't a windows issue, it's a computer issue. Same as if you unplugged the connection to your (unmirrored) IBM i dasd while it was writing.

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

If this is what I think it is, the hack doesn't work ... it will re-enable the undock option if you have a real docking station and it goes away, but it won't give you an undock option if there never was one.

david