Information Update
eSATA Device and Software RAID Solutions
Booting from an eSATA device is not supported when the system is set 
to RAID mode and software RAID PERC S100 is enabled.
eSATA does not support hot-swap in ATA mode.
The following table lists the eSATA device options under different SATA 
controller modes:
Software RAID PERC S100/S300 is not supported on the following 
Windows
®
-based operating systems.
  NOTE: Software RAID PERC S100/S300 is not supported on all Linux
®
-based systems.
Mode Bootable Hot-Swappable
ATA Yes No
AHCI Yes Yes
RAID (S100 enabled) No No
Operating System  Edition
Microsoft
®
 Hyper-V™ Server
 
2008 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server
®
 2008 (x64) 
with Hyper-V role enabled
Standard
Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (x64) 
with Hyper-V role enabled
Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) with 
Hyper-V role enabled
Standard
September 2009