I have a Fantom 2TB external drive (model GF2000EU) which has an eSATA port on the back. I am also using an ASUS P5Q-e motherboard which has an eSATA port on it.
Been using it now 2yrs on USB, but decided to give the eSATA a try and bought a cable. I assumed (incorrectly) that it was the same as USB. Plug it it, turn the drive on and it pops up on screen, but, when I turned it on, I didn't get anything, not even that 'ding' noise Windows7 makes when I plug in a USB drive.
I read something about needing AHCI needing to be enabled in the BIOS, so, went into the BIOS and took a look. My SATA is setup as IDE (option was, if I recall, IDE, RAID and AHCI) so I switched to AHCI, save/restart, and won't start windows... so obviously needs a few other settings changed.
My system has 3 internal SATA drives and a SATA DVD Burner, there is a main SATA drive (250GB) with Win7 on it, the other 2 SATA drives are 3TB each with media on them so, didn't want to start messing around and wipe anything out. I set it back to IDE and computers works again.
So... anyone know what I need to do? Not sure if this is a post for storage, or motherboards...
Been using it now 2yrs on USB, but decided to give the eSATA a try and bought a cable. I assumed (incorrectly) that it was the same as USB. Plug it it, turn the drive on and it pops up on screen, but, when I turned it on, I didn't get anything, not even that 'ding' noise Windows7 makes when I plug in a USB drive.
I read something about needing AHCI needing to be enabled in the BIOS, so, went into the BIOS and took a look. My SATA is setup as IDE (option was, if I recall, IDE, RAID and AHCI) so I switched to AHCI, save/restart, and won't start windows... so obviously needs a few other settings changed.
My system has 3 internal SATA drives and a SATA DVD Burner, there is a main SATA drive (250GB) with Win7 on it, the other 2 SATA drives are 3TB each with media on them so, didn't want to start messing around and wipe anything out. I set it back to IDE and computers works again.
So... anyone know what I need to do? Not sure if this is a post for storage, or motherboards...