eSATA Card Busted? Or?

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ps2cho

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I have a Sans Digital 8 drive bay and it keeps corrupting WS2012 and Win7. It ran fine on both for over a year. O/S got corrupted, so I reinstalled and it simply BSOD or fails to boot as SOON as I install the drivers for the eSATA card.

Is the bay the problem, or the RocketRaid 622 card that it came with?

Are there better eSATA cards out there I can replace it with to try and fix it? I don't want to give up on an awesome hard drive bay it is.

Thanks

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This is the drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=16-111-168&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=3#scrollFullInfo
It uses a port multiplier if that helps at all...I still dont understand it fully, but I just need a compatible card that will allow it to function since it uses TWO eSATA cables to connect up.
 
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getochkn

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Seems just reading the reviews from the link you posted, a lot of people had trouble with the card. Sans Digital seemed to respond to most of the complaints, maybe contact them directly. Did you update the BIOS of the card as others said,

What type of RAID are you trying on it?
 
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The 2 port eSata bracket could be a viable solution if
1: your motherbd sata controller supports port multiplication
2: you have 2 free sata ports on your motherbd.

Also, if its having issues with the driver, be sure to use the latest drivers from the manufacturers site, not the disk that came with it.
 
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The problem is there is about zero motherboards that support port multiplication.
 
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The manufacturers site doesn't even have any drivers...its stupid
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_r600-download.htm
 
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The AMD SATA *.inf drivers have supported it on each mobo I've encountered ... not only with the Sans Digital 8-bay external enclosures, but the 8-bay Rosewill enclosures, too.

Intel is different and should be verified by chipset. ICH9, ICH9R and
ICH10/R support port multiplying ... not sure about newer chips.




 
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This is the motherboard I have:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128341

Think it will work?
 
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No ,it only has 1 eSata port and you need two ports that support the multiplication. Have you contacted Sans support yet? As I said, they seemed to very helpful on the newegg reviews.
 
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Yup.

(Assuming you have AHCI enabled, and are running the AMD SATA *.inf)



 
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