I suspect cable fault? Too long? Or perhaps try and get the latest Marvell SATA driver?
I was thinking if it was possible to switch the internal SATA port connecting the eSATA (which is Marvell chipset) to the one of the 6 SATA ports by Intel... But I believe Asus' eSATA implementation is not like Gigabyte's where an external bracket is provided and you get to choose where your eSATA port hooks up to. On 20 October 2010 06:06, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > I just purchased a 2TB Fantom Green drive with USB2 & ESATA > http://www.fantomdrives.com/products/greendrive.htm. I have not tried the > USB2 as I am trying to use the ESATA. I am using a new 1 meter ESATA cable > plugged into a ASUS Maximus II formula motherboard ESATA port. I set this > up when the power was off. I then powered up the PC and the Fantom drive > appears correctly in Windows 7 PRO. I attempted to copy a number of folders > with around 100GB of video to the drive but after about 10 percent copied > the Fantom drive disappeared and I was forced to abort the copy. > > I shut down, let it sit powered off for a while and then started things > back up. The Fantom drive was right where it should be but no folders or > files showed on the drive. I copied a few small folders with no problems. > Then I let it sit like that overnight and in the morning everything was as > it should be. So I attempted to copy a folder with 418 GB of video in it to > the ESATA drive. After a short time the Fantom drive disappeared and I had a > message that around 15 percent of the folder had been copied and the drive > was no longer available... again I had to abort. The drive is still not > showing but I assume it will appear after a shutdown. > > Having no experience with ESATA I am unsure of where the problem lies,... > the ESATA port on the ASUS board, Windows 7, or the new Fantom drive? >
