Hi,

Anyone else have this issue? I have Vista 32bit. I have an Asus P5B
motherboard. It has that all wonderful Jmicron controller (1.06.59
version).

Anyhow, I cannot seem to get the eSata port on the back to recognize
anything. It works, the BIOS sees the external drive plugged in, but
Vista sees nothing.

I cannot seem to find a fix for this or anything........can anyone
help? Anyone have this issue?

Worst case is I need to spend another $300+ to buy a different brand
motherboard and chip that will properly support esata........

Regards

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:07:41 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Hi,

Anyone else have this issue? I have Vista 32bit. I have an Asus P5B
motherboard. It has that all wonderful Jmicron controller (1.06.59
version).

Anyhow, I cannot seem to get the eSata port on the back to recognize
anything. It works, the BIOS sees the external drive plugged in, but
Vista sees nothing.

I cannot seem to find a fix for this or anything........can anyone
help? Anyone have this issue?

Worst case is I need to spend another $300+ to buy a different brand
motherboard and chip that will properly support esata........

Regards

Your CD/DVD units aren't working in Windows and/or your EIDE
controller drivers are all messed up - all hashed over, and over and
OVER in four or five threads.

Now you have another thread running about a non-functioning eSata
port.

TRASH that thing and be DONE with it.

Go into the Control Panel - System & Maint - Admin Tools - Create &
Format Disk Partitions (a.k.a Disk Management) and see if it lists the
drive there.

Sometimes you have to initialize a drive for Vista to actually assign
it a drive letter.


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Cyberwolf

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Hi,

Anyone else have this issue? I have Vista 32bit. I have an Asus P5B
motherboard. It has that all wonderful Jmicron controller (1.06.59
version).

Anyhow, I cannot seem to get the eSata port on the back to recognize
anything. It works, the BIOS sees the external drive plugged in, but
Vista sees nothing.

I cannot seem to find a fix for this or anything........can anyone
help? Anyone have this issue?

Worst case is I need to spend another $300+ to buy a different brand
motherboard and chip that will properly support esata........

Regards


I have a P5B running Vista Ultimate and have no issues, either with optical
drives in general, or with the eSATA port. What device are you attempting to
connect via the eSATA port? If it's a hard drive, have you partitioned and
formatted the drive? As Cyberwolf has told you, it won't be assigned drive
letter(s) until you do that.

On Sep 22, 8:02*am, "PvdG42" wrote:
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Hi,

Anyone else have this issue? *I have Vista 32bit. *I have an Asus P5B
motherboard. *It has that all wonderful Jmicron controller (1.06.59
version).

Anyhow, I cannot seem to get the eSata port on the back to recognize
anything. *It works, the BIOS sees the external drive plugged in, but
Vista sees nothing.

I cannot seem to find a fix for this or anything........can anyone
help? *Anyone have this issue?

Worst case is I need to spend another $300+ to buy a different brand
motherboard and chip that will properly support esata........

Regards

I have a P5B running Vista Ultimate and have no issues, either with optical
drives in general, or with the eSATA port. What device are you attempting to
connect via the eSATA port? If it's a hard drive, have you partitioned and
formatted the drive? As Cyberwolf has told you, it won't be assigned drive
letter(s) until you do that.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I have an external RAID 1 TB drive (so 500GB mirror). It is in one of
those Xtrastro enclosures. Not sure what is wrong, or even if the
control panel is supposed to shoe some seperate device. I recently
performed a Repair install, and everything is working fine except.
(Actually the eSata never worked to begin with....so purchasing a new
MB and performing a full re-install may be what happens........I would
hope not though.

Thanks for the reply.....

On Sep 22, 8:02*am, "PvdG42" wrote:
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Hi,

Anyone else have this issue? *I have Vista 32bit. *I have an Asus P5B
motherboard. *It has that all wonderful Jmicron controller (1.06.59
version).

Anyhow, I cannot seem to get the eSata port on the back to recognize
anything. *It works, the BIOS sees the external drive plugged in, but
Vista sees nothing.

I cannot seem to find a fix for this or anything........can anyone
help? *Anyone have this issue?

Worst case is I need to spend another $300+ to buy a different brand
motherboard and chip that will properly support esata........

Regards

I have a P5B running Vista Ultimate and have no issues, either with optical
drives in general, or with the eSATA port. What device are you attempting to
connect via the eSATA port? If it's a hard drive, have you partitioned and
formatted the drive? As Cyberwolf has told you, it won't be assigned drive
letter(s) until you do that.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The drive is partitioned, formatted and is running ok (sort of).

When hooked via USB, the drives seems to appear & disappear. This
only started a couple of days ago. When it re-appears it sometimes
appears in a 'raw' mode, where I need to press a 'reset' button on the
back, recreate the partition, etc. So, instead of 500GB, it should
8GB. Other times it is ok.

To me, that does not sound like a HD issue, but the enclosure. So, I
thought maybe the USB port was loose or something and wanted to try
eSATA. But, I cannot get that to work.......

I may just trash this enclosure and get one that uses Firewire......