Sharkoon sata quickport pro question

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Got one of these today ..

Will it only detect drives that have been powered on before windows has booted? because ive tried swapping drives over in windows, but nothing is detected, ive got the both usb and esata connected, but nothing pops up when i power on a drive
 
tang0 said:
Got one of these today ..

Will it only detect drives that have been powered on before windows has booted? because ive tried swapping drives over in windows, but nothing is detected, ive got the both usb and esata connected, but nothing pops up when i power on a drive
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Hi there. I don't think you're supposed to have both USB and esata connected simultaneously - probably confuses the unit. My advise will be to plug just the USB cable in and then test the drive. I have the usb one and all I need to do is;

a) Plug drive in
b) press "on" button at back of unit.

If I want to replace the drive, I

a) Switch unit off at back
b) Unplug old drive
c) insert new drive
d) Switch on at back.

Windows recognises the new disk immediately.

It could be that you're currently in SATA mode and your sata ports are not "hot swap" capable. This means you're only detecting the disk on bootup. Some motherboards have options on what mode sata ports are in (e.g my old mobo let me choose each sata port as being either raid mode, esata mode, or ide mode.)

I'd check to ensure that the sata port the quickport is plugged into is set to esata mode as that should enable hot swap.
 
Ok, having just the USB port plugged in detects drives instantly

My sata ports are set to RAID right now, maybe that's why it wont hot swap. Having both usb and esata cables connected is surely the whole point of the thing, so you can use the usb ports/card reader as well as having fast transfer rates with esata
 
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Ok case closed ...

Installed the JMicron driver, and it now detects the drives on esata, both cables connected, and can now hot swap etc :)
 
tang0 said:
Ok case closed ...

Installed the JMicron driver, and it now detects the drives on esata, both cables connected, and can now hot swap etc :)
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hi,

can you please tell me tang0 if your hard drives power down when you shut your PC down or do you have to power them off yourself.

i want to use the quickport duo and raid the two drives for a secure back up but i don't want the drives to be running when i shut down the PC
 
having problems with mine also.
esata only not detected
usb plugged in, drive recognised, tried to copy a test iso which started out with 68Mb/s then slowed to a crawl and no read/write red light on the sharkoon.

plugged in both usb and esata i get the red light and get a constant write speed of 71MB/s
hdspeed 58MB/s

so seems that i need both with my quickport duo.
next problem is that i get no safely remove option for the drive.
 
update

got it working better now, used the jmicron drivers instead on the built in vista ones.
working without usb now 58MB/s transfer rate on my WD Caviar SE 200GB.
hotplug working too.
 
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