I have a somewhat new build with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 and a AMD 9370 Vishera cpu, 8gb of corsair vengeance ram, nvidia ti 660 video card. C: drive is a Samsung SSD, have a 3 tb and another 2 tb traditional hard drive. I am having problems with the esata ports and the drive bay on top of my ultra case.
I am wondering if the esata powered ports would show up differently in device manager than the rest of the sata ports do? I am pretty sure that the AHCI driver is properly installed (this board defaults to AHCI at least for the main controller which I've read it has to be set as ahci when you load win 7 or it won't install the drivers and it's a pain to get it to do so after the fact, if you even can) I have an icon in the tray to "safely eject" and it lists all my drives which I don't believe I would have that if AHCI driver wasn't working under windows 7 (you get the same icon when usb sticks or drives are operating). This board has a secondary marvell sata controller with two more ports on it that I'm guessing would be for RAID if you desire but can also be used as just two more sata ports.
When I plug my old OCZ throttle stick into the esata port I get no response, it's not seen at all. I know the stick is fine because it works perfectly as a usb 2 stick (nice gadget has both was a bit pricey when I bought it). I contacted gigabyte and they were willing to rma but I'm not ready to rip my machine apart again and put all my stuff on the old box until this one comes back; I believe this is a driver, OS or bios issue and not a hardware issue. I have a copy of windows 8 I could throw on here to test with but honestly 8 doesn't impress me, have it on my laptop and don't really care for it, even the 8.1 update.
My second issue is the sata drive bay on the top of my ULTRA computer case. Yeah I know this was a sixty dollar case so quit whining but it's convenient and I paid for it! lol. The top of the case has a usb 3 port that works properly, three usb 2 ports that also all work properly and then the drive bay and the power/reset switch and sound out/microphone out that are not connected because I'm using my soundblaster card not the onboard sound chip. The only fat cable coming from the top of the case is a big blue cable which I'm assuming is a USB cable that connects into a usb 3 plug on the motherboard. I was thinking it may need an additional power connector but I sure can't find it in the case if there is one. When I put a drive in the bay there is no spinup(you can't put your hand on the drive and feel the motors running and the platters spinning), none of the usual response for windows loading drivers etc. I think it's a bit mysterious that the usb three and two ports work great but the bay doesn't work unless it's just bad. I contacted ULTRA by email and they sent me a phone number to call about it. Kinda guessing if it was just a power connector they would have said hey moron...connect the power but they didn't and there is nothing in their one page setup sheet that mentions an extra power cable. Does usb 3 supply enough power to run a hard drive? So if you've got other stuff plugged in up there like usb sticks or usb connected drives wouldn't it be sucking too much power? It occurs to me that perhaps all the other plugs have to be empty for the bay to work, think I'll try that later.
I've read there are several types of esata ports out now, regular old ones, new esatap that provide power and then some sort of esata/usb combo port. This board has the 6 mb per second esata ports according to the book.
Any ideas?
I am wondering if the esata powered ports would show up differently in device manager than the rest of the sata ports do? I am pretty sure that the AHCI driver is properly installed (this board defaults to AHCI at least for the main controller which I've read it has to be set as ahci when you load win 7 or it won't install the drivers and it's a pain to get it to do so after the fact, if you even can) I have an icon in the tray to "safely eject" and it lists all my drives which I don't believe I would have that if AHCI driver wasn't working under windows 7 (you get the same icon when usb sticks or drives are operating). This board has a secondary marvell sata controller with two more ports on it that I'm guessing would be for RAID if you desire but can also be used as just two more sata ports.
When I plug my old OCZ throttle stick into the esata port I get no response, it's not seen at all. I know the stick is fine because it works perfectly as a usb 2 stick (nice gadget has both was a bit pricey when I bought it). I contacted gigabyte and they were willing to rma but I'm not ready to rip my machine apart again and put all my stuff on the old box until this one comes back; I believe this is a driver, OS or bios issue and not a hardware issue. I have a copy of windows 8 I could throw on here to test with but honestly 8 doesn't impress me, have it on my laptop and don't really care for it, even the 8.1 update.
My second issue is the sata drive bay on the top of my ULTRA computer case. Yeah I know this was a sixty dollar case so quit whining but it's convenient and I paid for it! lol. The top of the case has a usb 3 port that works properly, three usb 2 ports that also all work properly and then the drive bay and the power/reset switch and sound out/microphone out that are not connected because I'm using my soundblaster card not the onboard sound chip. The only fat cable coming from the top of the case is a big blue cable which I'm assuming is a USB cable that connects into a usb 3 plug on the motherboard. I was thinking it may need an additional power connector but I sure can't find it in the case if there is one. When I put a drive in the bay there is no spinup(you can't put your hand on the drive and feel the motors running and the platters spinning), none of the usual response for windows loading drivers etc. I think it's a bit mysterious that the usb three and two ports work great but the bay doesn't work unless it's just bad. I contacted ULTRA by email and they sent me a phone number to call about it. Kinda guessing if it was just a power connector they would have said hey moron...connect the power but they didn't and there is nothing in their one page setup sheet that mentions an extra power cable. Does usb 3 supply enough power to run a hard drive? So if you've got other stuff plugged in up there like usb sticks or usb connected drives wouldn't it be sucking too much power? It occurs to me that perhaps all the other plugs have to be empty for the bay to work, think I'll try that later.
I've read there are several types of esata ports out now, regular old ones, new esatap that provide power and then some sort of esata/usb combo port. This board has the 6 mb per second esata ports according to the book.
Any ideas?
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