Hi Kee-Lo - you've got a real eBay thing going on there, haven't you! 
I did a search but there all in the US - and shed-loads of dosh. What I want is a perfect one, for free. Would you have a link...?
If not, I was wondering if I got the wrong one deliberately, would the plug fit? As I said, they SEEM 
to be the same...
We'll have to wait and see.
Cheers,
Chris
Best of luck with your new eBay venture, Kee-Lo. We've certainly raised some good cash with them. (With packaging & PayPal - which I regard as essential - I reckon it costs about 20% of everything sold 
but it's worth every penny! I recommend eBay to anyone.)
As for the docking station - it's become redundant as I've got the USB drivers working in DOS now. (I just need to figure out how to do a System Restore from DOS, via a USB drive, but as I said in 'Alternate Boot Options' - that's another thread.)
For anyone interested, the first three docking stations/port reps. l listed are are the Sony recommended ones. The second two are for the N505 series (If memory serves) and after scrutinizing the plug on the port rep. I think the actual data transfer pins etc. are the same, but the shape of the outer plug-to-socket is not: The male data transfering part (for want of a more acurate descripton!) of the plug looks like it would fit into the female data tranfering part of the R600 laptop, but you'd probably have to physically hold it in with you hand. Not an option for an hour-long Restore, then!
(And the difference between the PR- & the UPR-5 is the latter has i-Link and USB etc. The former has just PS/2, Serial etc.)
Cheers 
,
Chris
It don't matter squat now - look what I did find:
"To perform a system recovery, your docking station should be disconnected"
How about that!? 
Imagine spending all that money on a docking station only to find you 'ain't spent enough! Madness. It seems that Sony laptops will ONLY boot externally from iLink (I'm not sure about FireWire, even) or PCMCIA - though whether they need to be pukka Sony products, I don't know. (Mandy, in another thread, said her GRX booted from a Sony floppy drive but our local computer shop couldn't boot our R600 from a Sony USB floppy.)
Anyway - DO NOT buy a docking station for booting! (I only just found out in time. 
)
Cheers,
Chris
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