NP8662 Wont work with ESata?

I just purchased a Cavalry 2tb harddrive ( Newegg.com - Cavalry CAXB 2TB USB 2.0 / eSATA Black External Hard Drive CAXB3702T3 ). Via USB, it worked great. When I went to try it through Esata though, nothing comes up. I checked device manager, checked bios, nothing. The harddrive and the cable are brand new. Does anyone have any idea? Called tech support, they refered me here lol. Anyway, any help would be awesome! Thanks

EDIT: I have it running under AHCI, and nothing is showing up.

 

Looking at the drive, looks like you are using your own eSATA cable because it doesn't show one included? Make sure it is an eSATA cable and not just a SATA cable.

Also while it should be "plug and play" try connecting it with the laptop turned off, then power up and see if it detects it during the boot-up process (POST).

It could also be a bad cable if you're using an actual eSATA cable too. Just trying to figure out from what you're telling us.

 

A sata cable wouldnt work in it, because the cable fits. I have tried rebooting with it already on, rebooting with it off then on, and simultaneous

 

A stupid question, did you plug the power adapter?

If yes, then another question :
What OS you are running?

If Vista or Win7 then another question :
Did you change the BIOS to AHCI before or after the OS installation?

If after, then you have to re-install OS again

 

You can switch to AHCI without having to reinstall the whole OS again by editing the registry manually amongst other things.

Details can be found here. Some time ago there was also a big thread on this forum detailing how to do this and it was in the Windows 7 sub forum I think. This is not the exact thread I was referring to but it still has the steps and some good information.

 

I did this fix, which got me to get to ahci mode.

 

Something I just noticed: In my bios, when I go in there, I can see all my sata drives. I have Sata 1 set as my internal drive, Sata 2 set as my cd rom, and sata 3 does not detect anything. Now wehn I actually am in my computer and go to check Intel Rapid Storage Technology, its says my external port is port 4 (still says nothing is connected). Is it possible these numbers are confusing my computer?

 

Noone can help?

 

I got two different USB2.0/eSata box enclosures, both supplied with eSata cable. For sure I need external power supply to be plugged in for working, cause eSata is not self powered, but it's not your case cause your enclosure has already external power supply.
Usually when I plug eSata cable and I check the bios, the external Hard drive is seen as Drive 3. I can even boot from that drive.
Coming back to your problem try plugging both the cables, first Usb 2.0 and then eSata and check if your drive 3 is finally enabled.
Anyway looks like it's a defective cable. The easiest way is to try with another one before diagnose some problems to the eSata ports.

 

I had much trouble with xxodd external 2TB HDD (2x1GB raid) on my M860TU..
Ripped it apart so i have 2 1TB's left (-;

Esata won't work with any bios on the M860TU and so it won't show up in the bios.. (only software will activate it)

The only way to get it working is to try an older intel matrix storage manager than the one you get from the support page @clevo or sager..
This because i had speed problems (read/write)

Intel rapid storage manager won't work fine because it slows down boot up and slow speed to.. (don't know about the latest version)

Intel Matrix Driver for Windows 7 32/64 BIT 8.9.0.1023 <--- support page..

I thought 7.8XXX would work correct.. don't know for sure..

If you wan't to find the intel drivers i mentioned go to
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel raid.htm

Hope this helps. (-;

 

Do you know which version I need? Because I have this sata, and I sdesperately want it to work

 

Tried installing 7.8XXX first said it didnt support that OS, then said I dont meet minimum system requirements

 

try this one:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17412&ProdId=2101&lang=eng

if it won't work correctly try 8.7xxx search google for this one (-;


UNINSTALL OTHER INTEL MATRIX/RAPID DRIVERS FIRST..

 

That like was for 8.8 btw. Gonna try to manually uninstall drivers, lets see how it works

 

Just tried manually uninstalling then installing over. Didnt work. When I go under intel manager, it says my port 4 is unused, Thats my external port. Any help would be awesome!

BTW DIADO could you do me a favor? Could you tell me what the following are for you?

O/S:
32 bit or 64:
(In bios under advanced) O/S:
(In bios under advanced) IDE or AHCI:
(In bios under advanced if AHCI) Robertson support:
IDE ATA/ATAPI controller driver version:
Intel Matrix Number (loads on start):

 

i have the latest bios and the latest intel matrix (station drivers)..
i don't use esata anymore..

win7/vista in bios, sata mode ahci, all standard..

What help do you need?
you will never see anything on the bios screen that just won't work correctly..

if you want to use esata in windows 7 try:

1 first turning on your external hdd till its up and running..
2 then start youre notebook with the mentioned drivers..

Installing Intel Rapid Storage Drivers makes my eSATA Drives act weird - Super User.. this may help...

i don't know any further solutions.. good luck

 

FWIW I have a powered eSATA enclosure, uses power from the combo eSATA port. I have SATA set to AHCI. On bootup and in BIOS it shows the eSATA drive as a USB drive. I am also running IRST 9.6.0.1014 and is detected and runs fine, even with hot plug and unplug.

 

So you have it plugged into USB and Esata? Im actually going after class to test out on another computer. Just found out my school has some esata ready computers in the tech labs

 

No, it's only plugged into the combo eSATA port. It's a special cable and enclosure. Check out this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-enclosure-supports-power-combo-usb-port.html

But in your case it shouldn't matter because you have an external power to your hard drive. Standard eSATA cable should work fine.

 

Well still in class, once I get out, Im going to check the drive

 

Good and bad news. Tried it out on another computer, still not recognized. So more than likely problem with either drive or cable

 

Problem solved! It was the cable. Got a new one, fully working

 

Yay! Thanks for reporting back and glad you got it worked out. I've had faulty cables before (not eSATA) and it's frustrating because it's typically the last place I check. Well, now it's one of the first things. At least its a cheap and easy fix usually.

 

@htwingnut

great you solved it

But i had 2 esata cables wich are obvious both faulty then

My hard drive had a special raid chip which connected to esata maybe it was not wel compatible with the esata port..

i never saw my external drive in the bios.. but it did react in windows or it went choppy with speed problems..

But i am very glad it works for the m860tu haha