damocles

Eeerrrrrrr, Well...it's sort of working. It works fine with the USB interface albeit slowly ( as you would expect).

But I need it to run in eSATA mode as I have massive files and was hoping for a raid 0 scratch disk.

This is what I have done to date to try to get the eSATA to work

In the bios - set Jmicron to enable > Raid
reboot
the external drive is recognised ( as one volume with 1000mb - despite having two drives ) and windows loads normally......Fine.

Jmicron driver is installed and looks fine.

2 big dual is set to Fast (Raid 0) and the confirm button is pressed to finish the raid set up.

The volume is formatted and the drive is ready to use showing around 935mb available.

I move some images on the Raid drive and they write OK

BUT! when I load Photoshop, or any other program, to read the files - the load bar moves quickly up to around a third of the way and then it stops and it crashes Photoshop - resource manager show disk read times at around 90mb/s then it rapidly goes down to 0mb/s and stays there. This happens when in Raid 1, Raid 0, JBOD mode via eSATA.....everything seems fine when it's in USB.

Also when I run a disk check / disk benchmark t locks up windows when it has to read the files --- sometimes when I format it locks windows.

Sometimes the 2 big dual would report a blinking red light on the left hand drive which suggests a faulty drive. I have taken both drives out of the enclosure and tested them which my internal power supply and sata connections and the drives are good.

There are quite a few report about faulty power supplies not giving enough juice to the drives....I wonder if this is the case for my drive

Any ideas on this.....I just want to damn thing to work.

Cheers

Chris