Re: External SATA (E-SATA) hot pluggabability?
- From: "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:20:29 GMT
For a device to show in "Safely remove" list, its driver (or its controller
driver) should mark it as "Removeable". My guess is that an existing driver
for your on-board SATA controller doesn't know that those ports are for an
external device, so it doesn't mark them as such. The driver should also be
able to detect hot plug. I guess the generic one is not.
Regarding USB, it's very sensitive to the PCB layout from the controller to
the connectors. I also have an ASUS board and its USB ports are all very
unreliable. One port will only recognize high-speed devices as USB 1.1. Even
though they all are connected to the same controller.
"BDD" <bdd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hTu%h.23395$Bk.14837@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi. So I've heard E-SATA is hot pluggable but its not working on my
setup. I have a fairly popular ASUS motherboard (ASUS P5-B Deluxe).
I have an External SATA HDD connected right now through the E-SATA
connector on the back of the mobo with a 500GB Western Digital SATA. The
device works fine and gives good performance but Windows Vista shows no
options for disconnecting the drive through that "Safely Remove Hardware"
tray icon. From all appearances, I might as well have plugged this thing
into an internal SATA connector!
Incidentally, my USB connected drives all connect/disconnect (usually).
That is one of the reasons why I want to switch to E-SATA. Not only for
better efficiency but USB has been proving to be unreliable at times where
it fails to recognize the USB drive forcing me to repeatedly physically
disconnect and reconnect the drive's USB cable until it finally works.
Grrr. :( Anybody else get this at times?
I've gone through all the BIOS options I know but haven't come across
anything I recognize that allows/disallows E-SATA hot plugability. Can
anyone point me in the right direction as to how to get this thing to
work? Is this a BIOS setting, OS setting or both?
Relevant System specs:
ASUS P5B-Deluxe mobo (Intel P965 chipset) (BIOS version 1004)
Intel Core 2 Duo E-6400
4096 MB DDR2-800 RAM
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition
TIA!
.
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