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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
I have recently built a PC, based on the P55A-UD4 mobo.
I purchased Antec Easy SATA drive bay, for connecting drives externally, and it is connected to regulat SATA. I need the external drive to be hot swap, while the internals ones not to be, so the internal ones will not appear in the add/remove programs. I thus used the standard SATA for the internal drives and the Marvell 9128 GSATA sockets for the drive bay. I defined the GSATA sockets as AHCI in the BIOS and installed the AHCI Marvell91xx drivers. Yet, any hard rive I put in the Antec drive bay is not hot plugged. I have connected the drive bay with 5 wires SATA electric power source. Any idea as to what do I miss? Uzi for e-mail user is azuz and domain is nisht.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com |
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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
I forgot to mention that the OS is XP pro sp3.
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:59:20 +0300, Uzi wrote: I have recently built a PC, based on the P55A-UD4 mobo. I purchased Antec Easy SATA drive bay, for connecting drives externally, and it is connected to regulat SATA. I need the external drive to be hot swap, while the internals ones not to be, so the internal ones will not appear in the add/remove programs. I thus used the standard SATA for the internal drives and the Marvell 9128 GSATA sockets for the drive bay. I defined the GSATA sockets as AHCI in the BIOS and installed the AHCI Marvell91xx drivers. Yet, any hard rive I put in the Antec drive bay is not hot plugged. I have connected the drive bay with 5 wires SATA electric power source. Any idea as to what do I miss? Uzi for e-mail user is azuz and domain is nisht.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com |
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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
What happens if you plug the drive directly into the motherboard
GSATA3 connector, and power the drive directly from the power supply? On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:59:20 +0300, Uzi wrote: I have recently built a PC, based on the P55A-UD4 mobo. I purchased Antec Easy SATA drive bay, for connecting drives externally, and it is connected to regulat SATA. I need the external drive to be hot swap, while the internals ones not to be, so the internal ones will not appear in the add/remove programs. I thus used the standard SATA for the internal drives and the Marvell 9128 GSATA sockets for the drive bay. I defined the GSATA sockets as AHCI in the BIOS and installed the AHCI Marvell91xx drivers. Yet, any hard rive I put in the Antec drive bay is not hot plugged. I have connected the drive bay with 5 wires SATA electric power source. Any idea as to what do I miss? Uzi for e-mail user is azuz and domain is nisht.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com |
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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:15:20 -0700, Andy wrote:
What happens if you plug the drive directly into the motherboard GSATA3 connector, and power the drive directly from the power supply? I tried it. It behaves exactly the same. Should I understand from your message, that it had to work the way I did it. The hard drive is now identified when plugged, but does not appear in the safely removed program, and a new hard drive that has not yet been installd is not recognised when connected. Thanks, Uzi On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:59:20 +0300, Uzi wrote: I have recently built a PC, based on the P55A-UD4 mobo. I purchased Antec Easy SATA drive bay, for connecting drives externally, and it is connected to regulat SATA. I need the external drive to be hot swap, while the internals ones not to be, so the internal ones will not appear in the add/remove programs. I thus used the standard SATA for the internal drives and the Marvell 9128 GSATA sockets for the drive bay. I defined the GSATA sockets as AHCI in the BIOS and installed the AHCI Marvell91xx drivers. Yet, any hard rive I put in the Antec drive bay is not hot plugged. I have connected the drive bay with 5 wires SATA electric power source. Any idea as to what do I miss? Uzi for e-mail user is azuz and domain is nisht.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com |
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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:08:09 +0300, Uzi wrote:
The hard drive is now identified when plugged, but does not appear in the safely removed program, and a new hard drive that has not yet been installd is not recognised when connected. The intel SATA-Controller still does not support eSATA. You have to connect your HD to the JMicron controller and install the latest eSATA drivers from JMicron. There the safely remove function is available. Udo |
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GA-P55A-UD4 and hot swap SATA drives
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:54:14 +0200, Udo Kammer
wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:08:09 +0300, Uzi wrote: The hard drive is now identified when plugged, but does not appear in the safely removed program, and a new hard drive that has not yet been installd is not recognised when connected. The intel SATA-Controller still does not support eSATA. You have to connect your HD to the JMicron controller and install the latest eSATA drivers from JMicron. There the safely remove function is available. Udo Thanks, but as I wrote, the SATA controller is made by Marvell - not Intel or JMicron. and both controllers (Intel and Marvell) claim to support AHCI, so I thought they are supposed to support hot plugging as this is part of the AHCI standard, (and as I wrote, I did enable AHCI for the Marvell). I also checked and I use the latest (official) controller driver from Marvell. P.S. Wouldn't it make sense if there was a way to choose which drives to be hot plugged and which drives not, even when they are using the same controller. Uzi Uzi For e-mail contact and other, see: http://www.uzipaz.com |
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