Windows 7 doesn't like eSATA hot swap

[cmdrdredd]

Has anyone been able to get Windows 7 to hot swap an eSATA HDD without a restart?

I've tried everything, USB is slow and I want to use eSATA because obviously, it's faster.

 

[Elixer]

Why would you need to restart? After you plug it in, you 'safely remove the device', and it tells you it is OK to remove it, then do that. Then when you plug another HD in, it will see it.

If that is not going on, then you have a driver issue of some type.

 

[Voo]

You're sure that you're using AHCI?

 

[cmdrdredd]

I know how it's supposed to work, it worked fine in Vista. It's no driver issue because if you do a search there's hundreds of threads on various forums about this and Windows 7 doesn't seem to work right with eSATA. So I'm asking if anyone has it working and could explain if there was something else needed.

I plug in an eSATA drive and what do you know, it doesn't work. Won't show up and mount as USB does. I go to drive manager and try to get it there and it freezes the app. So I have to restart to get the drive to show up.

 

[Elixer]

Ahh, sorry about that.

You are correct, there does seem to be issues with eSATA and win7.

I still think it is a driver level bug of some type though.

 

[Old Hippie]

If you're using the board in your sig., have you tried updating the JMicron drivers?

 

[taisingera]

For me W7 and eSATA give no problems. It is smoother than it was in XP. Of course all my SATA ports are on the Intel controller, so no JMicron junk to deal with. Definately check drivers esp. if it is JMicron.