Skypix7
Senior member
Sorry, didn't mean "burners won't post" They won't burn.
I hope someone's got an idea what's going on, I'm out of ideas.
My new ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 build has been running just great. Not a single BSOD with two Samsung 830 256GB SSDs leading the charge, but strange things happening lately and thought I'd check into the braintrust here to see if anybody's got any ideas.
I have a Seagate 1TB external drive using e-sata, which was working fine then all of a sudden my computer doesn't see it any more. Tried everything I know of: switched cables, even power cords; clicked on scan for hardware changes in device manager; switched between three esata ports; checked Disk management; checked in bios. Vanished: it's an esata drive, has always worked well. Now just disappeared.
Final check: plugged it into my laptop: shows up fine, all folders present (I have about 900GB of backup on there). So it's something with my hardware, or Windows (the usual suspect)
The drive lights up just fine too when plugged into the computer, it sounds normal when spinning up, files open when I click on them (on the laptop). Just doesn't get detected on the desktop, for a couple days now.
Some recent changes that might be the culprit:
I re-enabled my 2 onboard Marvell SATA 3 ports (they were disabled on advice here and elsewhere) and have one SSD plugged into one of them, a Corsair 240GB Force GT that works fine (I had another one that I just RMA'd, they sent me a knew one, but this one is great.)
Nothing plugged into the other Marvell 6GBs (hah!) port. Did it because I needed to connect more drives, I also have two DVD burners. The Corsair ATTO scores are consistent with what they should be for those ports, not as fast as the Intel SATA3 ports, but top scores are 144K write 396K read, not the 525K/559K I get on the Intel but good enough for data storage.
BTW, another anomaly: both my burners failed within a week of each other. Two ASUS DVD double layer burners. I replaced them and they're working fine...at reading. They refuse to burn.
Windows sends up dialogs: first it wants to format the blank disk, then when I click OK, it asks for master or USB, I choose Master, then it says it can't read the disc.
That's the two issues since the Marvell ports were enabled. Could it be all the ATA channels it installed in Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (I'd had the Marvell ports disabled when I built the system) or do I have yet another arcane Windows problem you might have heard of that I haven't found searching on the net?
Oh: my OS is Win 7 Pro 64 bit.
thanks for your help!
I hope someone's got an idea what's going on, I'm out of ideas.
My new ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 build has been running just great. Not a single BSOD with two Samsung 830 256GB SSDs leading the charge, but strange things happening lately and thought I'd check into the braintrust here to see if anybody's got any ideas.
I have a Seagate 1TB external drive using e-sata, which was working fine then all of a sudden my computer doesn't see it any more. Tried everything I know of: switched cables, even power cords; clicked on scan for hardware changes in device manager; switched between three esata ports; checked Disk management; checked in bios. Vanished: it's an esata drive, has always worked well. Now just disappeared.
Final check: plugged it into my laptop: shows up fine, all folders present (I have about 900GB of backup on there). So it's something with my hardware, or Windows (the usual suspect)
The drive lights up just fine too when plugged into the computer, it sounds normal when spinning up, files open when I click on them (on the laptop). Just doesn't get detected on the desktop, for a couple days now.
Some recent changes that might be the culprit:
I re-enabled my 2 onboard Marvell SATA 3 ports (they were disabled on advice here and elsewhere) and have one SSD plugged into one of them, a Corsair 240GB Force GT that works fine (I had another one that I just RMA'd, they sent me a knew one, but this one is great.)
Nothing plugged into the other Marvell 6GBs (hah!) port. Did it because I needed to connect more drives, I also have two DVD burners. The Corsair ATTO scores are consistent with what they should be for those ports, not as fast as the Intel SATA3 ports, but top scores are 144K write 396K read, not the 525K/559K I get on the Intel but good enough for data storage.
BTW, another anomaly: both my burners failed within a week of each other. Two ASUS DVD double layer burners. I replaced them and they're working fine...at reading. They refuse to burn.
Windows sends up dialogs: first it wants to format the blank disk, then when I click OK, it asks for master or USB, I choose Master, then it says it can't read the disc.
That's the two issues since the Marvell ports were enabled. Could it be all the ATA channels it installed in Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (I'd had the Marvell ports disabled when I built the system) or do I have yet another arcane Windows problem you might have heard of that I haven't found searching on the net?
Oh: my OS is Win 7 Pro 64 bit.
thanks for your help!
