"earlgrey9" <earlgrey@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:C2510C60-C467-4B2B-97DD-8704FB75D378@microsoft.com...
It's interesting that the Kingwin SATA controller card is also equipped with
a regular SATA port in addition to an eSATA port, but you would still need a
SATA data cable with a SATA connector on one end and an eSATA connector on
the other end (the latter for connection to your external enclosure),
wouldn't you? And I don't imagine that even if you had that requisite data
cable it would have any effect - one way or another - re the problem you're
experiencing with the Kingwin card.
My suggestion was (if possible) to make the SATA data connection from your
external enclosure *directly* to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors.
Again, I fully realize that wouldn't resolve your problem with the Kingwin
card but it would give you at least the temporary capability to utilize the
external enclosure in your system and would verify there's no problem
involving the enclosure and its contained HDD. (Although I do understand
that the device worked without problems in another machine as you had
previously indicated).
Let me say a few words re the "hot-swappable" ("hot-pluggable") features
involving SATA HDDs. First of all, it's a virtual certainty your motherboard
supports that capability so specifications are met on that end. And since
your WD HDD is SATA II I'm virtually certain it also has that capability.
(Every SATA-II HDD we've worked with had "hot-swappable"/"hot-pluggable"
capability assuming it was supported by the motherboard).
There's a misconception that an eSATA port connection is necessary to
achieve this "hot-swappable" ("hot-pluggable") capability involving SATA
HDDs. Actually this capability exists (or can exist) even when the
connection is accomplished through a "regular" SATA connector/port. It is
true, of course, that where the motherboard (or device) is equipped with an
eSATA port, the "hot-swappable" ("hot-pluggable") capability is presumed
present assuming the SATA HDD involved *also* contains this capability (as
virtually all SATA-II HDDs do in our experience). SATA-I HDDs can also
contain this "hot-swappable" ("hot-pluggable") capability, however, the
manufacturer must specify that this is so.
BTW, doesn't your Kingwin card also have an IDE connector to support a PATA
HDD? Do you happen to have a PATA HDD lying around just to see if the device
would recognize that HDD? (I'm assuming your motherboard is equipped with at
least one IDE channel).
Anna
Rutetuti wrote:
I reviewed the hardware setup of "earlgrey9", and he has the following.
These are on the P5K-VM motherboard.
ICH9
4 SATA ports, manual is unclear about AHCI support (bios options not mentioned)
Jmicron
JMB20368 PCI Express to PATA Host Controller (controls one PATA connector on motherboard)
He has added an extra card. PCI Express based. He doesn't say
what the card is. It could be based on a JMB20366 for example
A JMB20366 would give 2 PATA and 2 SATA ports. The different
chips might be covered by a 2036X driver.
This Startech card is an example.
http://www.startech.com/item-downloa...ller-Card.aspx
The Startech manual says to press <control-J> while in the BIOS,
to access the RAID BIOS on the Startech card. In there, you may
see the ESATA drive being detected. (You shouldn't have to
touch the single drive, or set it up as a RAID volume. Looking
in the RAID BIOS screen, if you can get there, is purely to
see whether the BIOS sees the drive.)
Startech seems to use a RAID driver for the card, so it is possible
that AHCI mode and a non-RAID prepared drive, would be picked up by that
driver. In some previous posts, people have been using ACHI
drivers to get hot-plug working on SATA. Since Jmicron doesn't
offer such a thing, either they expect it to come from the
Microsoft default driver, or via the Jmicron RAID driver. And
I don't know of a way to verify what capabilities exist with
either of those drivers. The Startech driver package has a
"jraid.sys" and that might be the driver associated with the
ESATA port.
So, some more details, such as the PCI Express card used,
the chip number if it is visible, and what driver files are
associated with the ESATA port, might shed more light on the
problem of "hot-plug" failure.
Paul
