So here is my setup, I have two internal SATA on the SATA2_0 and SATA2_1, then there are two SATA DVD burners on SATA2_2 and SATA2_3
Then on the SATA2_4 and SATA2_5 I had this external slot based thing that lets me hookup 2 eSATA. So those two cables go to the _4 and _5 ports. Now when I hookup both of my eSATA drives (which one is a Western Digital 500gb and the other is a Seagate FreeAgent 750GB) only one of them shows up, in this case the Seagate. I thought maybe the cable was bad, so I flipped them around and some reboots the Seagate will show up or the Western Digital. So I know the ports are not bad.
So I decided to move the two eSATAs to the Gigabyte SATA ports. Still on that setup only one of them seem to show up. Sometimes I can get both to show up by unplugging one and plugging it back in and hitting refresh in Device Manager in Vistax64 SP1 and I can see it starts to see the other drive (shows it as DISK DRIVE) and just hangs there, so it never fully shows up.
Here the settings in BIOS I use
Integrated Peripherals
Intel Controller
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10R Southbridge) ............. Disabled
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode ................................... Disabled, tried enabled as well
Gigabyte/J.Micron Controller
Onboard SATA/IDE Device ............. Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode ........... AHCI/RAID, also tried IDE with no luck
So Im not sure if I just cant use two eSATA or what. The bios startup when the AHCI scan kicks in only seems to show the Western Digital.
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Then on the SATA2_4 and SATA2_5 I had this external slot based thing that lets me hookup 2 eSATA. So those two cables go to the _4 and _5 ports. Now when I hookup both of my eSATA drives (which one is a Western Digital 500gb and the other is a Seagate FreeAgent 750GB) only one of them shows up, in this case the Seagate. I thought maybe the cable was bad, so I flipped them around and some reboots the Seagate will show up or the Western Digital. So I know the ports are not bad.
So I decided to move the two eSATAs to the Gigabyte SATA ports. Still on that setup only one of them seem to show up. Sometimes I can get both to show up by unplugging one and plugging it back in and hitting refresh in Device Manager in Vistax64 SP1 and I can see it starts to see the other drive (shows it as DISK DRIVE) and just hangs there, so it never fully shows up.
Here the settings in BIOS I use
Integrated Peripherals
Intel Controller
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10R Southbridge) ............. Disabled
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode ................................... Disabled, tried enabled as well
Gigabyte/J.Micron Controller
Onboard SATA/IDE Device ............. Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode ........... AHCI/RAID, also tried IDE with no luck
So Im not sure if I just cant use two eSATA or what. The bios startup when the AHCI scan kicks in only seems to show the Western Digital.
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