Need help to install an e-SATA hard drive

[corso13]

hi all i Need help to install an e-SATA hard drive to the external conector by e-sata

the hard drive is a MyBook from WD the Mobo is a TPower 45, i did as the instructions says and the pc didn´t recognized the drive, simply it doesn t appear on the device manager, i trid different ways to install it even went to bios and nothing

can anyone give me a tip to put this hard drive working by e-sata and tell me what im doing wrong ?

Many thanks

[zanzabar]

u have to have ahci enabled, and the esata i think os one the jmicron controller

[corso13]

u have to have ahci enabled, and the esata i think os one the jmicron controller

OK do you mean AHCI Enable and the OS pluged into tge JMicrom Controler ????

[zanzabar]

no there are 2 controllers an ich10 (for sata, with your internal HDD) and jmicron for PATA and eSATA. u need the ich to be whatever u had it on, and the jmicron to be ahci