I've got a Fantec DB-F8U3e external enclosure that carries its own power supply, usb3 and esataII ports. I use a 3.5" 7200rpm 1TB WD Black HDD within this Fantec and it's the only HDD I've got so there're both OS and storage in it.
I tried to connect the Fantec to my MSI B450-A PRO motherboard firstly with the usb cable and all went good, I mean the Fantec's blue led switched on as soon as I pushed my PC power on button and then it was recognized in bios environment as a usb peripheral and I could work with it.
Now I've just bought an esata-sata 1m (39,37") 3Gb/s cable to try to connect it to one of the 6 msi sataIII ports, just for experiment. When I switch on my PC the Fantec's led remains switched off and in bios "system status" there's nothing connected to sata ports, nevermind which one of the 6 I choose. Of course I've already try to enable "hot plug" sata parameter in bios but nothing changed. I'm quite sure there're no other sata parameters to set in bios, I mean there's no "eSATA section" or whatsoever just because my mobo has no esata port.
Afaik esata and sata signals are slightly different therefore I don't think my mobo "understands" if there's a sata or an esata port at the other end of the cable. Moreover I've checked the connectivity (Ohm=0) between some pins of sata plug and some pins of esata plug of the brand new cable but I know this isn't enough to be sure it's ok.
My personal idea of the reason of this issue is a sort of "misunderstanding" between sata port and plug generations involved, I mean: hdd goes @ 6Gb/s, cable carries @ 3Gb/s, so is mobo's sata port (6Gb/s) maybe not able to accept cable speed? In the case I could try to use jumpers with WD but they would lower its speed to 1.5Gb/s so I don't know if it's the way out.
Any thoughts about that? If nothing else works then I think my enclosure's esata port is broken.
I tried to connect the Fantec to my MSI B450-A PRO motherboard firstly with the usb cable and all went good, I mean the Fantec's blue led switched on as soon as I pushed my PC power on button and then it was recognized in bios environment as a usb peripheral and I could work with it.
Now I've just bought an esata-sata 1m (39,37") 3Gb/s cable to try to connect it to one of the 6 msi sataIII ports, just for experiment. When I switch on my PC the Fantec's led remains switched off and in bios "system status" there's nothing connected to sata ports, nevermind which one of the 6 I choose. Of course I've already try to enable "hot plug" sata parameter in bios but nothing changed. I'm quite sure there're no other sata parameters to set in bios, I mean there's no "eSATA section" or whatsoever just because my mobo has no esata port.
Afaik esata and sata signals are slightly different therefore I don't think my mobo "understands" if there's a sata or an esata port at the other end of the cable. Moreover I've checked the connectivity (Ohm=0) between some pins of sata plug and some pins of esata plug of the brand new cable but I know this isn't enough to be sure it's ok.
My personal idea of the reason of this issue is a sort of "misunderstanding" between sata port and plug generations involved, I mean: hdd goes @ 6Gb/s, cable carries @ 3Gb/s, so is mobo's sata port (6Gb/s) maybe not able to accept cable speed? In the case I could try to use jumpers with WD but they would lower its speed to 1.5Gb/s so I don't know if it's the way out.
Any thoughts about that? If nothing else works then I think my enclosure's esata port is broken.
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