I recently purchased a Vantec NexStar external eSATA hard drive enclosure and have been having some issues trying to get it to work connected via eSATA. Everything works fine connected by USB 2.0 but when I switch over to eSATA the drive is never detected in Windows.
The drive itself connected with eSATA is detected in my bios and in the JMicron boot screen but Windows fails to see it. I have AHCI enabled for my eSATA port (MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard) and enabled the AHCI system drivers in my registry but still am unable to detect the drive. I had it working for a little bit under IDE mode in the bios but the drive was unreliable and would become unresponsive after a minute or two.
Can anyone think of anything I may have missed in getting this working? Any input would be appreciated.
08-12-2009
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