eSATA setup

[vivek]

hi
i have a problem with my eSATA setup, i am not getting the option to "Safely remove hardware" for hotswaping. my motherboard is Asus p5kc with jmicron controller for eSATA. have enabled AHCI for Jmicron in bios, loaded the Jmicron drivers, tried under vista & XP both still when i connect my external HDD (Kingwin enclosure) to eSATA it is not recognized as hotswapable device.

please help me hw to configure eSATA.

 

[bobbknight]

I have an eSata drive in an external enclosure, I just leave it connected and turned on.

 

[vivek]

thanks for the suggestion but i use it as backup drive & connect it only when i require to copy some data. and my problem was how do i get windows to recognize my eSATA as hotplug device.

 

[rockbyter]

device manager - open up the properties for the drive and check the option to make it removable. if that is not an option you just uninstall the device and it does the same thing

 

[vivek]

device manager - open up the properties for the drive and check the option to make it removable. if that is not an option you just uninstall the device and it does the same thing

i was looking at something similar to USB devices having the option to "Safely remove hardware". i have gone through many articles & forums whereby i understand windows should recognize it as Hotplug device.