8930 and ESata

I have had my 8930 for some time now but have never used the esata port on the side (other than as a USB connection).

I now need to transfer a large number of files off the internal drives and thought I'd try esata as this would appear to be the quickest way.

However when I connect the esata cable to the port, Windows 7 does not see it.

Is there anything I need to do to get the connection to work (eg install a driver or alter the bios or some such??

For info I have 2 sata drives (one 2.5" and one 3.5") neither of which are recognised.
I am using a sat/esata cable to connect the discs directly to the port (no caddy) and the discs are powered by a separate disc power supply which has a sata power cable on it.

Any input appreciated.

Thanks

 

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Does that mean
- no one viewing uses the esata port
or
- no one viewing has a problem with it
or
something else

 

I don't know if it works this way in Windows or not, but here's what I found using Linux - the esata drive had to be up and running before starting the Linux PC. The external drive we use has esata and USB. I could start the Linux PC, then plug in via USB and the drive would mount. No go with esata; it had to be plugged in and running first.

 

Thanks Telkwa.

I have seen suggestions that this was the case with esata, as well as some who suggest it should be 'hot pluggable'.

I have tried both with no joy

 

Check with acer and see if there is some kind of intel storage manager In the driver list and install it. That should do the trick!

Edit* the driver should be called Intel SATA AHCI and here is the link

 

Thanks ajbutch123 - your reply was much appreciated.

Unfortunately that did not work - the esata drive is still not visible after installing and re-booting Win7.

Of course I was not holding out much hope as the drive does not show up in the bios to begin with - I guess if the port was live it would be seen in the bios???

 

well, I'm sorry it didn't work out. My sager uses the Intel sata controller and I thought that driver might be your problem, but I guess not.

The only other thing I can think of is updating to the latest bios.

 

Thanks anyway Aj.

Not convinced a Bios upgrade would solve the problem - and I'd prefer a solution which did not involve this as knowing my luck lately it would all go wrong doing the upgrade.

I think I may have to resort to buying a USB3 Expresscard and USB3/Sata converter to get quicker transfer rates.
More money to outlay - but not too bad - total cost about $35 -$40 (£30UK).

 

Fixed!!!!

I decided to try a different supplier and buy another sata/esata data cable before splashing out on USB3. (Only cost £1.50 so worth a try).

This time when I plugged in the powered up drive Windows loaded a driver (which it hadn't done before) and the drive was seen and accessible.

So all's well now.