Having some issues with optical drives in an esata chassis with my ESB2 (ICH6R) southbridge (Lian-Li powered ESata front panel). Detected on boot but not reliable once in Windows and hotplug causes the system freeze for about half a second every 5 seconds and are wrongly detected as SATA gen2 by RST. Is it just not supported or is this likely a driver issue?
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ESATA - Do you need ICH9R or higher?
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NoxTek
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You shouldn't, ESATA is just SATA with a different plug.
However for hot-plugging to work you DO need to have your onboard SATA controller running in AHCI mode, otherwise you will get all kinds of unpredictable results including but not limited to freezing, BSOD, data loss, etc.
However for hot-plugging to work you DO need to have your onboard SATA controller running in AHCI mode, otherwise you will get all kinds of unpredictable results including but not limited to freezing, BSOD, data loss, etc.
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I'm wondering the same thing re: drivers...my thermaltake blacx seems to be a no go and i'm in ahci mode on ich10r. no freezey, no bsods, just no recognizey. thermaltake has a driver that they say only to use if your os won't recognize the esata drive--but that didn't help either.
Actually, the P6T WS Pro does not run its eSATA ports off of the ICH10R's SATA controller at all - but instead, it uses a Marvell controller connected to one of the ICH10R's PCIe lanes for eSATA.
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Its seems drivers have an effect on ESATA functionality.
With Intels RST I cant even get stability when plugging the drive in before booting the system, it stalls and crashes the ripping program. Hot plugging with Intels RST is a complete failure too, it either crashes the machine or causes it to freeze every few seconds; it never detects the drive.
Microsofts AHCI driver is better. It is at least stable with an exrternal drive plugged in on bootup and although the drive is a bit slow it otherwise works OK. Hotplugging works the first time you plug the drive in perfectly but subsequent attemps lead to no detection.
With Intels RST I cant even get stability when plugging the drive in before booting the system, it stalls and crashes the ripping program. Hot plugging with Intels RST is a complete failure too, it either crashes the machine or causes it to freeze every few seconds; it never detects the drive.
Microsofts AHCI driver is better. It is at least stable with an exrternal drive plugged in on bootup and although the drive is a bit slow it otherwise works OK. Hotplugging works the first time you plug the drive in perfectly but subsequent attemps lead to no detection.