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SATA Hardrive Detection Problems
Hello friends,
I have recently puchased a external SATA E5 hardrive from Acomdata and I am experiencing problems with it. I have installed all the drivers, and in the device manager it lists all the things that should be installed with the correct drivers... Under SCSI and Raid controllers: DMI Raid Interface... Looks good! Dura Micro S-ATA Raid Adapter... Looks good! After I installed the drivers, I flipped my drive on and it detected it as a RAW Local Drive with 0 free space and 0 total space . According to Acomdata it should be installed as a FAT32 Hardrive that can be formatted into NTFS format. When I tried to format the puppy, it said something along the lines of "Drive is not connected" . Strange because it was connected. So I decided it looked like something maybe a nice fresh reboot could fix. So I rebooted my PC and now its not detected at all! My motherboard doesent have SATA connectors on it so I am using the SATA/RAID card that came with it, which the drivers were installed to correctly and the card is detected. I did install the card with the drive connected to it with the powercord and SATA wire to it, but the drive wasent powered on. If anyone can help me out here it would be very appreciated! Last edited by azurepancake; 05-06-2006 at 08:49 AM. |
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05-06-2006, 01:44 PM
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please post the make and model of the components; so I can read the install manual and try to discover a solution. How are you able to connect a Sata external to an internal sata/raid card ????
I have seen many Sata drive enclosures that are USB connected ??????? as well as have used many sata/raid PCI slot controller cards that your drives connect directly to from inside of the computer; but your description sounds like you are trying to do both ???? How is your drive connected to the system ? ~~~~~~  please elaborate
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05-06-2006, 05:30 PM
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some of the new mobo"s have a hot plug system were they have rear SATA connections althought I have not looked around to see if there are sata enclosures about.
I agree a manual or card model would be helpful. Was the drive powered on when you rebooted ? Are you sure the SATA drive is SATA and not SATA2
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