Seagate Free agent pro eSata

gary996

gary996

gary996

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Has any body got one of these working on eSata yet? Have just rma'd mine as it would only work on USB and the replacement is the same.
Cost me £8.50 to return it. Not pleased with there service at all
 
I know this post doesn't really help, but I've read so many problems with eSATA. The port on my motherboard is either dead or the drivers are appalling. I can't get it working for love nor money so have to route a long SATA/eSATA cable through a watercooling tube hole on the back of my case just so that I can use my external drive.

I too know what you mean about the cost of returning things. Warrenty is supposed to support the product for a specified time, yet one always has to pay extra to get this guarentee if you know what I mean. I guess it's the trade off with buying OEM products which are cheaper...
 
What are you doing to try to get the drive working? Are you plugging it in to your motherboards e-SATA connector? You might require to enable the e-SATA controller in the bios, and install the appropriate driver.
 
Have tried it from different sata ports on the mobo. The Asus Rampage does not have eSata. It does not show up in the bios or in windows.
 
Are you powering up the external drive then booting the PC?

How are your SATA ports configured in the BIOS? IDE, AHCI or RAID?
 
I've been working on Esata hd's all week on a P35 ds4.
I wanted to be able to switch 5 hd's off through the night on my Server, and managed to get it working yesterday.

I didn't change the bios options, and left the setup as sata drives.
I also added two pci-e sil 3132 sata cards, one raid with Esata connectors.

I can now see 3 hard drives in the usb add and remove gadget, but still have two missing. It see's one on the 3132 which is in a external caddy, and two on the purple sata's on the m/b (Jm). Even though all are listed in device manager, the only way to remove them, is using that app "hotswap".

This app will turn selected hd's off, but will rescan for them when needed.
For some reason, if I put one of the two hd's into a external caddy, and plug into the external e-sata port on the 3132 it's then seen in the usb list.

I do hope this helps others, but using that app means I can now turn off 5 hd's overnight, remove one from the esata port, replace, and re-scan for them in the morning.
 
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