eSata in Vista - Any problems?

Hi,

I am running Vista Home Premium. I had been running 2 Western Digital
500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. The external enclosure was a Fantom
enclosure.

The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
enclosure which supports RAID 1.

Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. Once
I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive. If I hook it up as an eSATA,
Vista does not see it at all......

It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
1.

I have a PB5 motherboard. I have tried a lot of things via the cables
and re-booting and such, no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!!!

John

Check in the bios that the eSata is enabled

"Mtek" <> wrote in message
news:a7b28323-c3f3-4f55-8bcd-...
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Vista Home Premium. I had been running 2 Western Digital
> 500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. The external enclosure was a Fantom
> enclosure.
>
> The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
> enclosure which supports RAID 1.
>
> Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. Once
> I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive. If I hook it up as an eSATA,
> Vista does not see it at all......
>
> It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
> 1.
>
> I have a PB5 motherboard. I have tried a lot of things via the cables
> and re-booting and such, no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> John

On Jun 25, 2:45*am, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:
> Check in the bios that the eSata is enabled
>
> "Mtek" <m...@mtekusa.com> wrote in message
>
> news:a7b28323-c3f3-4f55-8bcd-...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am running Vista Home Premium. *I had been running 2 Western Digital
> > 500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. *The external enclosure was a Fantom
> > enclosure.
>
> > The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
> > enclosure which supports RAID 1.
>
> > Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. *Once
> > I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive. *If I hook it up as an eSATA,
> > Vista does not see it at all......
>
> > It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
> > 1.
>
> > I have a PB5 motherboard. *I have tried a lot of things via the cables
> > and re-booting and such, no luck. *Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> > Thanks!!!
>
> > John- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Well, I tried tried changing the IDE setting to whatever the other one
was, ACHI? I had trouble booting after that........

If the volumes are dynamic then VHP cannot see them.

"Mtek" <> wrote in message
news:a7b28323-c3f3-4f55-8bcd-...
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Vista Home Premium. I had been running 2 Western Digital
> 500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. The external enclosure was a Fantom
> enclosure.
>
> The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
> enclosure which supports RAID 1.
>
> Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. Once
> I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive. If I hook it up as an eSATA,
> Vista does not see it at all......
>
> It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
> 1.
>
> I have a PB5 motherboard. I have tried a lot of things via the cables
> and re-booting and such, no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> John

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:19:18 -0700 (PDT), Mtek <>
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 2:45*am, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:
>> Check in the bios that the eSata is enabled
>>
>> "Mtek" <m...@mtekusa.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:a7b28323-c3f3-4f55-8bcd-...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > I am running Vista Home Premium. *I had been running 2 Western Digital
>> > 500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. *The external enclosure was a Fantom
>> > enclosure.
>>
>> > The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD
>> > enclosure which supports RAID 1.
>>
>> > Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. *Once
>> > I got it to detect it as a 75GB drive. *If I hook it up as an eSATA,
>> > Vista does not see it at all......
>>
>> > It should detect close to 500GB since the other 500GB is for the RAID
>> > 1.
>>
>> > I have a PB5 motherboard. *I have tried a lot of things via the cables
>> > and re-booting and such, no luck. *Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> > Thanks!!!
>>
>> > John- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>Well, I tried tried changing the IDE setting to whatever the other one
>was, ACHI? I had trouble booting after that........

If youi want to use eSATA, the mode of the SATA interface must be AHCI
to support hot plug.