Hey. Join the club. It's like SATA (and esata) is some sort of brand new technology, rather than what - ten years old now?
I've got one mobo that only does esata intermittently*. Another works sometimes, sometimes needs a power cycle. A third seems to work, usually. * I didn't notice this at first. I didn't even know it was *possible* for a SATA drive to run at PIO speeds, but that's what it's usually doing. It appears fine, but unless you pay a lot of attention or run a speed test, you just don't know. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:15 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hotswap worked..to a point. It sees the drive now, but is giving me the > typical cannot be stopped because a program is accessing it. The only thing > I did is connect the drive and move 50 gigs to it as a test. That was > almost two hours ago. > > Mike > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I dunno about Vista 64, but in WinXP I have to use the freeware >> HotSwap!. Better than the default icon anyway, as it shows more drive >> information; I'd recommend it for everyone. >> http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have >> > the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list >> for >> > drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps >> a >> > BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
