esata?
Mikesta
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I bought a new motherboard for my comp with an esata port. Mistakenly thinking that it was the same as sata, I also bought this external drive. Realizing my error when I saw that the two ports have different shapes I went and bought an esata-sata cord. Unfortunately I cannot get xp to detect the drive through the esata port. It works fine using the internal sata ports and usb. Should it be coming up like an external usb drive with the arrow and such? Is there something I have to do to get xp to detect the drive? Also in a somewhat related question: I'm running a raid0 with two 160gig sata drives and for some reason the safely remove hardware icon comes up for them. It's a minor annoyance, but I would like to fix it.
Thanks all.
Thanks all.
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Re: the raid, check the properties of the drives in device manager, I think there is some option to set them as optimized for removal or something like that.
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The thing is, the internal ports are on SATA controller A and the external port is on SATA controller B. They're not literally named A and B, but they are different controllers. I think the internal one is an NVIDIA controller and the external one is something like a Silicon Image or some shit...
You have to make sure that the second SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS and is not set to RAID if you plan on using single external HDs.
If you don't have any yellow exclamation marks in your device manager and are showing only one SATA controller, then your second controller is disabled.