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I recently purchased an external enclosure that supports eSata and I put a 500 GB seagate 7200.10 hard drive in it with plans of being able to hot swap it to my computer.
Currently, my Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P motherboard has two sata WD 640GB caviar blacks connected to the first two yellow sata ports on the AMD SB750 ports, running in Raid 0 (bios of course is set to RAID mode. I also have a sata 320 GB hard drive running on the last yellow sata port. I have the "OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type" set to IDE to support the 320GB drive and everything has run perfectly so far.
I decided to hook up the eSata bracket to the second SATA controller on the motherboard (the gigabyte one with two purple ports). I set the GSATA-II Ctrl option in the BIOS to Enabled.
Now from what I have read, you need to set the Ctrl Mode to AHCI in order to hot swap, but if I set this, I still can't hot swap AND my 320GB hard drive on the OTHER sata controller disappears from my drive list. I was able to boot up into windows still, I assume because the AHCI should only affect drives connected to that controller.
I just want to be able to connect this hard drive like I would through USB and have it immediately detect on connection and function (and vice versa). Currently I can only get it to work if I reboot the computer.
Any ideas how I can get it to hot swap on the second sata controller? Also any ideas why my other 320GB drive seems to be affected by the settings of the second sata controller?
Currently, my Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P motherboard has two sata WD 640GB caviar blacks connected to the first two yellow sata ports on the AMD SB750 ports, running in Raid 0 (bios of course is set to RAID mode. I also have a sata 320 GB hard drive running on the last yellow sata port. I have the "OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type" set to IDE to support the 320GB drive and everything has run perfectly so far.
I decided to hook up the eSata bracket to the second SATA controller on the motherboard (the gigabyte one with two purple ports). I set the GSATA-II Ctrl option in the BIOS to Enabled.
Now from what I have read, you need to set the Ctrl Mode to AHCI in order to hot swap, but if I set this, I still can't hot swap AND my 320GB hard drive on the OTHER sata controller disappears from my drive list. I was able to boot up into windows still, I assume because the AHCI should only affect drives connected to that controller.
I just want to be able to connect this hard drive like I would through USB and have it immediately detect on connection and function (and vice versa). Currently I can only get it to work if I reboot the computer.
Any ideas how I can get it to hot swap on the second sata controller? Also any ideas why my other 320GB drive seems to be affected by the settings of the second sata controller?
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