[CentOS] ma78gm and esata

[John R Pierce]

Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my motherboard ma78gm is working.
> I am trying to get working the esata.
> I plug in my external driver, power cycle the external drive.
> then turn on my machine.
> My drive sda is detect as normal. however I dont see anything about any 
> other disk.
> dmesg didnt show anything.
>
> Is there something special needed to activate the esata drive?
>
>   

silly question, is the esata chassis port connected to the 
motherboard?      if so, the esata port should be working just like any 
other sata port.