Do I need to enable E-SATA somehow?

[alevasseur14]

Hello everyone! I just finished getting the motherboard in my sig installed this morning. I have a hand full of spare SATA ports and the external hard drives I have support E-SATA and included a bracket to mount E-SATA ports on the back panel.

My question is whether or not I need to enable anything in the BIOS or Vista to make the E-SATA drives removable like a USB drive would be? I used to run an eVGA 680i and there were E-SATA settings in the BIOS that I had to turn on. I just don't want to hook it up and toast my new baby!

Thanks everyone!

 

[zagood]

For the easy way, install hotswap. Pretty good program.

http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm

 

[alevasseur14]

Mmmmm. I'll pass. Designed for Windows XP/2K and the site is full of spelling and grammar errors. Doesn't give me the best feeling...

I didn't specify my OS so that one was my fault.