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External Hard Drive with e SATA
I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Your comments and advice would be appreciated. -- gemius |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
Is it recognised in Disk Management?
It wont be recognised in win until it is partitioned & formated. BTW is not MS dropping support/selling LiveOne Care from mid 2009? "gemius" wrote in message ... I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Your comments and advice would be appreciated. -- gemius |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:16:59 -0600, gemius
wrote: I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Have you installed the AHCI/RAID driver for the JMicron SATA interface? Check Device Manager, SCSI and RAID Controllers. Your comments and advice would be appreciated. |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
gemius wrote:
I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Your comments and advice would be appreciated. Try booting with the drive connected and on. You can also use Device Manager to find it if your system is already running. My eSATA seems to work just like a normal internal SATA drive, so I would have to say you can't treat the eSATA the same as a USB drive. Clark |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
Does Vista have native support for eSATA, and if so, for which chip sets,
how abouty yours. Or, do you need to install drivers into Vista for the controller on the motherboard? (Note that under XP you would have had to install drivers.) Is the eSATA controller a RAID controller or non-RAID? If RAID, did you build a RAID array? In some cases it is necessary to go through the formality of building an array consisting of a single disk. In other cases the controller will do that for you. If the drive appears in the BIOS, but not in Vista, look into drivers. If it does not appear in the BIOS, look into RAID settings. You may need to press some key combination to getting into the RAID setting, separate from getting into the BIOS setings. On my ASUS P4S8X the magic keys are "CTRL-F" for the Fastrak controller.. "gemius" wrote in message ... I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Your comments and advice would be appreciated. -- gemius |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
Look in the BIOS for a setting to enable AHCI for the eSata port. Without
that, drives will only be detected at boot time. With it enabled, drives should be detected automatically whenever you connect, if the required AHCI driver for the eSata controller is installed. You could also try opening Device Manager and tell it to scan for hardware changes. I find automatic recognition to be a little hit or miss on my Asus P5B motherboard, but it mostly works. Backup speed using the native Vista complete backup is significantly faster with eSata than USB. "gemius" wrote in message ... I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting? Your comments and advice would be appreciated. |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
Thanks for all your replies. I'm a little further on but still can't get it to work! I got the computer to recognise the external drive by booting with it switched on. It now appears in Computer with my other drives. LiveOne care also recognises it but it has (not connected) next to it, and it will not write to it. I looked at the settings in the BIOS and in the Main menu I found......... Configure SATA as [IDE] I changed this to [AHCI] but the computer just went into a loop and wouldn't start so I had to change it back. If it helps I don't have a RAID configuration. Looking at the comment by DL perhaps I would be better looking for another way to back up to the external drive than using Live OneCare? -- gemius |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
There should be settings to change just the jMicron eSata to AHCI. You can't
change the hard disk connection between IDE and AHCI without reinstalling Windows, or doing some clever fixing. The computer not starting up makes it sound like you set the main Sata ports to AHCI instead of the eSata controller. Once the eSata controller is in AHCI mode, you probably need to install a driver for that controller. But I would think if the drive shows up in Computer, it should be useable. Is it partitioned and formatted? Can you copy files to it in Windows Explorer? If you're using Vista then the builtin backup works very nicely, assuming its included in whichever Vista edition you have. I think it's not in all versions. "gemius" wrote in message ... Thanks for all your replies. I'm a little further on but still can't get it to work! I got the computer to recognise the external drive by booting with it switched on. It now appears in Computer with my other drives. LiveOne care also recognises it but it has (not connected) next to it, and it will not write to it. I looked at the settings in the BIOS and in the Main menu I found......... Configure SATA as [IDE] I changed this to [AHCI] but the computer just went into a loop and wouldn't start so I had to change it back. If it helps I don't have a RAID configuration. Looking at the comment by DL perhaps I would be better looking for another way to back up to the external drive than using Live OneCare? |
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External Hard Drive with e SATA
Thank you for your comments but I'm still having problems. I found the JMicron SATA settings in the BIOS and changed it to AHCI but when I re booted the Ext Drive had disappeared from Computer and Disk Management. I changed it back to ADI and now I have the Drive back in them both. I tried dragging and dropping a file into it and it worked so I don't think there ie anything wrong with the drive or that it needs Partitioning. However Live OneCare still won't write to it and while it knows it's there it still says the drive is not connected! -- gemius |
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One other thing:
I'm using Vista Ultimate 64 on a Dell Latitiude D530 and see my 1.5 TB FreeAgent connected to my XP box in another room. Vista reports 1.5 TB on the drive. -- The personal opinion of Gary G. Little "gemius" wrote in message ... Thank you for your comments but I'm still having problems. I found the JMicron SATA settings in the BIOS and changed it to AHCI but when I re booted the Ext Drive had disappeared from Computer and Disk Management. I changed it back to ADI and now I have the Drive back in them both. I tried dragging and dropping a file into it and it worked so I don't think there ie anything wrong with the drive or that it needs Partitioning. However Live OneCare still won't write to it and while it knows it's there it still says the drive is not connected! -- gemius |
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