ESATA connection

[Guest]

Hi!

I am now sick and tired of my slow external 1tb iomega usb drive and have now purchased first an ST Lab PCIe Serial ATA II Cardwhich i succesfully mounted on my mobo. i also purchased a Artek Speed 3500 HDD Enclosure with eSATA connectivity. i extracted the disk succesfully and inserted it into its new cover, plugged it into my new card, booted up, installed the controller card and now my disk won't show as i hoped it would. No new hardware detection or anything. My WinXP x64 cant find it at all. The disk inside my iomega drive was a Seagate of some kind. What could be my problem? Why wont it show up? :s

Thanks in advance!

/Daniel

 

[evongugg]

The SATA card probably needs a driver.
Is it recognized in device manager?
Is the hard disk recognized in the bios?
You need AHCI to be able to be able to hot swap.
Be aware XP has some problems with AHCI.
If you don't have AHCI, reboot after connecting the enclosure.

 

[Guest]

The controller card is installed properly and now appears under SCSI and RAID controllers:

Silicon Image Sil 3531 SATA Controller

Driver Provider: Silicon Image
Driver Date: 2009-06-04
Driver Version: 1.5.20.1
Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

The drive is not recognized in my bios or device manager.
How do I know if I have AHCI or not?