eSata how to make it work?

gary996 · 22 Aug 2007 at 16:54

Ok how do you make the eSata work on external hard drive.
Have plugged the drive in (which was working okon USB) but nothing happens
Mobo is abit IN9

Thebug · 22 Aug 2007 at 17:48

restart your pc with the esata drive on - mine does the same - i dont think its plug and play like usb

rpstewart · 22 Aug 2007 at 19:27

What caddy are you using? The IcyBox one you can't jump between USB and eSATA, you need to open it up and connect the drive to the other connector.

Have you enabled the SATA controller which drives the external port in the BIOS?

Keeny1979 said:
restart your pc with the esata drive on - mine does the same - i dont think its plug and play like usb

It should just plug and play, mine does.

Snapshot · 22 Aug 2007 at 20:35

Keeny1979 said:
restart your pc with the esata drive on - mine does the same - i dont think its plug and play like usb

No need to restart as a scan for hardware changes in Device Mangler should do the job.

gary996 · 22 Aug 2007 at 20:39

The drive in question is the Seagate free agent. Have tried hardware scan to no avail.
"Have you enabled the SATA controller which drives the external port in the BIOS"
Have looked over and over the bios and can't find anything to do with this.
Also tried just restarting pc. Still nothing
Am running xp and Vista same on both

rpstewart · 22 Aug 2007 at 22:48

gary996 said:
The drive in question is the Seagate free agent. Have tried hardware scan to no avail.
"Have you enabled the SATA controller which drives the external port in the BIOS"
Have looked over and over the bios and can't find anything to do with this.
Also tried just restarting pc. Still nothing
Am running xp and Vista same on both

The eSATA ports on the IN9 (I assume we're talking about an IN9 32x Max here) are driven by the Silicon Image add in SATA controller. Is this enabled in the BIOS, it's on the Integrated Peripherals page as "Onboard SATA Controller"? (The mode should be set to IDE). Have you installed the drivers for the controller in Windows?

gary996 · 23 Aug 2007 at 16:30

Yes its all enabled.
Have just tried plugging the drive into one of my spare sata ports on the mobo (also tried the ports my other drives are on to see if I can see it in bios) and still it does not work. I guess the drives sata port is not working. All ok on USB though.