Intel DX58SO eSATA ports

[Nagglfar]

I have 2 eSATA ports externally on my computer. I plugged these eSATA ports into SATA ports on the Intel motherboard. When I plug devices into them, they are not recognized/do not power up. Could this be a driver issue? Am I missing setup files or something of the like? I know for a fact the SATA ports do work.. as I have 2 SATA drives currently running. Perhaps it is a hardware issue? Currently using xp-pro-64bit

regards

[Apoptosis]

they are not powered eSATA ports, so be sure the drive has power... For example if you are using the OCZ Throttle eSATA drive you must have the USB 2.0 cable plugged in as a power source. Some newer boards have powered eSATA, but 99% don't.

[David R Lewis]

In my brief experience this is what we have learned.

On a PC loading Windows XP Pro from 2 drives conntected to the internal Sata ports in a mirror, we wanted to be able to connect an Esata drive to the red esata ports on the back of the PC to copy data for backup. The esata drive was detected only if the system was booted with it attached or if we went to device manager and scanned for hardware changes. We also experienced boot freezes and one Raid crash during a copy from the esata to the raid..
We then downloaded the Marvell drivers and extracted the F6 floppy contents to a location on the drive, and then updated the IDE controller driver in the device manager (not the Ich10R raid driver, but the IDE) using the files extracted previously, and it identified the Marvell controller and installed drivers. From this point forward we had near instant recognition of the drive when turning it on and off.
However with this said, we are still unable to "eject" the drive safely, and have disabled the write caching to prevent corruption when removing the drive.

If anyone knows how to enable the "hot-swap" so that it has "eject" or "safaley remove" drive options it would be appreciated.