Gigabyte wont recognize esata

[wa5vpo]

Hello,
My GA-X58A-UD3R doesn't seem to recognize my Fantom 2 Tb esata external drive. Win7 doesn't know it exists.

 

[itzdanielp]

If you go into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > computer Management > Disk Management

Does it show up in there at all?

Did you try it with a different interface?

 

[wa5vpo]

If you go into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > computer Management > Disk Management

Does it show up in there at all?

Did you try it with a different interface?

Yep, it works as a USB and it works on another computer as esata. Just won't be recognized on my GB motherboard as esata. In the bios the esata port is enabled as IDE . I even changed it to AHCI and still it doesn't find it.

 

[wa5vpo]

It doesn't show up in Win 7 in Disk Manager or Windows explorer.

 

[itzdanielp]

Download the drivers here

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/

 

[wa5vpo]

Download the drivers here

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/

OK, I will give that a try.
Thanks.

 

[wa5vpo]

Download the drivers here

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/

Thanks to your help I have it working. I had to change the JMicron esata controller mode in the bios from IDE to AHCI and that got the bios to recognize the drive. Then I had to install the latest Windows drivers from the link you gave me (JMicron.com) and that allowed Windows 7 to see the drive.
Thanks for your help.

 

[itzdanielp]

No problem, glad it worked out!

 

[wa5vpo]

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