Jmicron eSATA controller
Al
I have a JMB36X Jmicron onboard (motherboard) eSATA controller.
I am trying to use it with a Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 SATA hard drive
dock. This hard drive dock has the option to connect to my motherboard
via eSATA. Kewl I thought.
I firstly changed the bios options to enable eSATA controller and to
use AHCI mode.
I plugged a drive in and the drive showed up in windows (7) explorer,
and I could browse the contents of the drive, although sometimes
explorer folders had a very annoying pause before displaying contents
of several seconds.
Now comes the really stink bit, I wanted to backup the contents of the
drive. I tried both acronis and drive image xml and both failed at the
point where it actually started to backup the data.
It failed in that nothing happened and eventually the operation times
out.
I tried to update the Jmicron driver in windows 7 and the driver
updated ok (from ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/XP_Vista_Win7/ )
and I got to version :
JMB36X_WinDrv_R1.17.51_WHQL.zip
But I still cant update drives connected with this dock.
Anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
-Al
Andy
wrote:
Check Event Viewer.
>
>Cheers
>
>-Al
Ato_Zee
On 9-Nov-2009, Al <biga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I still cant update drives connected with this dock.
Are you sure the drive is being seen?
True Image works fine with eSATA on Win7.
The onboard SATA mobo port needs an adapter
to convert it to eSATA, this is just a connector
J to I SATA eSATA change, no change to pinning.
Is the eSATA drive connected at bootup?
If you plug it in after bootup you may need
a simple fix.
I use DriverGenius which is Win7 compatible
to keep my drivers up to date,
Driver Magic or similar, if listed as Win7
compatible should be just as good.
Some external drive housings can be
flaky particularly in USB mode with the USB
ports on an add-on board Can't speak for
Icy Dock in eSATA mode.
.
Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a JMB36X Jmicron onboard (motherboard) eSATA controller.
>
> I am trying to use it with a Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 SATA hard drive
> dock. This hard drive dock has the option to connect to my motherboard
> via eSATA. Kewl I thought.
Just in case:
Does it require a patch SATA cable from a normal SATA port to the eSATA
port? :)
--
@~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.31-14-generic
^ ^ 21:03:02 up 10 days 2:44 2 users load average: 3.21 3.24 3.30
不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA):
http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
Al
<toylet.toy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Al wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
>
> > I have a JMB36X Jmicron onboard (motherboard) eSATA controller.
>
> > I am trying to use it with a Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 SATA hard drive
> > dock. This hard drive dock has the option to connect to my motherboard
> > via eSATA. Kewl I thought.
>
> Just in case:
> Does it require a patch SATA cable from a normal SATA port to the eSATA
> port? :)
>
No - there is a native esata port on the back of the mobo.
-Al