I recently purchased a Vantec NexStar external eSATA hard drive
enclosure and have been having some issues trying to get it to work
connected via eSATA. Everything works fine connected by USB 2.0 but
when I switch over to eSATA the drive is never detected in Windows.

The drive itself connected with eSATA is detected in my bios and in the
JMicron boot screen but Windows fails to see it. I have AHCI enabled
for my eSATA port (MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard) and enabled the AHCI
system drivers in my registry but still am unable to detect the drive.
I had it working for a little bit under IDE mode in the bios but the
drive was unreliable and would become unresponsive after a minute or
two.

Can anyone think of anything I may have missed in getting this working?
Any input would be appreciated.


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