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pageblair   01-07-2009 at 12:15:30 PM

Hey guys, how do you add esata to xp sp1. the mobo(gigabyte 875/865/848p) is sata ready and i have the mobo drivers disc.
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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   01-07-2009 at 02:59:02 PM

I'll order up a spare drive & do some testing; I believe that all you need do is select AHCI in the BIOS, and then load the corresponding driver during the install, and that's it. My case has an eSATA port, & I did surgery on the eSATA bracket that was included to slice out the eSATA power port (which is really just a molex w/some mounting screws) to one of my blank drive plates in front, but I haven't yet had the occasion to try it out; I have got all four OSs, so I should be able to test in each. If you didn't install the driver(s) during the OS install, I know that's a problem, but it IS a soluble one - I'll try to do a search later today to find a good, clearly explained procedure for it...

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jsc   01-07-2009 at 03:46:02 PM

I bought a USB/eSATA external drive housing for a laptop SATA drive. It came with an eSATA bracket and eSATA cable. All I had to do was install a standard SATA cable between a motherboard SATA connector and the back of the external bracket. No drivers needed.

 

It does, however, need the USB cable for power. But it's a lot faster than USB.


Message edited by jsc on 01-07-2009 at 03:48:57 PM
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evongugg   01-07-2009 at 04:09:36 PM

Set your sata to AHCI mode if you want it to support hot swap.
It has to be hot swappable for the OS to detect it automatically like a USB device.
Otherwise you can reboot to get it detected.

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evongugg   01-07-2009 at 04:11:38 PM

How to enable AHCI : Windows XP

http://expertester.wordpress.com/2 [...] indows-xp/

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