Re: Dell Latitude E series & docking station eject?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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