Is AHCI required to allow eSATA?

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Just curious as I need to find somewhere to start troubleshooting!

I've just recently acquired a WD MyBook 1TB drive that has an eSATA connection on it, so as my new Fractal Designs R2 case also does, I bought an eSATA cable. Alas, it does zilch.

Currently I'm set to run in IDE mode, rather than RAID or AHCI. The case eSATA port is hooked up to port 5 or 6 on my Gigabyte ex58-UD5 motherboard.

The MyBook works perfectly via FireWire or USB.

Ta :).
 
Can't get mine working on eSata and I have AHCI enabled. Have tried everything known to man. Asus just don't seem to like it. (this has been on a couple of Asus mobos with no luck)
 
Hang on a mo, do you mean work if plugged in before startup? To let hotswap work, you need AHCI enabled, but otherwise I've found esata to just behave like a normal sata port, though my only esata port I've used so far was on an expansion bracket, not directly from the mainboard. I'd assume they were the same though, just wired in different places. Perhaps that is a dangerous assumption!
 
Hmmm, ok, that's odd then. I've tried with the drive hooked up when it first boots and still no drive visible.

More testing required me thinks!
 
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