eSata drive not automatically recognised

Hello,

I have a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel Bearlake chipset)motherboard as
the basis of a Vista Ultimate system. My problem is that when the
system is up and running and I connect an e-sata drive, the PC does not
automatically detect the drive as it would do for USB devices. I have
to access 'Device Manager' and scan for new devices to get the drive
recognised.

What do I have to do to have this PC automatically recognise e-sata drives?

BTW I have the latest drivers and Vista updates installed as well as the
latest bios from the motherboard maker.


Thanks,
Shane

Unless the drive hardware/drivers/software sends a hardware change message
to Vista it won't see the new drive automatically appear. You'd need to see
if the SATA hardware, drivers or software can do this.

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"nospam" <> wrote in message
news:475b06d9$0$31444$ u...
> Hello,
>
> I have a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel Bearlake chipset)motherboard as the
> basis of a Vista Ultimate system. My problem is that when the system is
> up and running and I connect an e-sata drive, the PC does not
> automatically detect the drive as it would do for USB devices. I have to
> access 'Device Manager' and scan for new devices to get the drive
> recognised.
>
> What do I have to do to have this PC automatically recognise e-sata
> drives?
>
> BTW I have the latest drivers and Vista updates installed as well as the
> latest bios from the motherboard maker.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Shane