Re: Vista issue?? Or not??

On Jun 24, 12:15 pm, Dave <no...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:28:45 -0700 (PDT)





Mtek <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I am running Vista Home Premium.  I had been running 2 Western Digital
500GB drives in RAID 0 mode.  The external enclosure was a Fantom
enclosure.

The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
enclosure which supports RAID 1.

Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive.  Once
I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive.  If I hook it up as an eSATA,
Vista does not see it at all......

It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
1.

I have a PB5 motherboard.  I have tried a lot of things via the cables
and re-booting and such, no luck.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!!!

John

If you are using an external enclosure, your mainboard bios is not
involved in recognizing the size of the drive.  And your OS will see
whatever the external enclosure sees, so you'd have the same problem
with XP or linux, for that matter.  This is a hardware (or firmware)
problem with the external enclosure.  -Dave  - Hide quoted text -

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Dave,

Are you saying the enclosure is bad? Or defective? Or is there
something else I am missing or not doing?

John.
.

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