Re: Dell Latitude E series & docking station eject?

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

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