Jerry Geis wrote:

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/ 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.

John,

Yes... it is connected to the motherboard. That would have been what I suspected also that the disk would show up just as any other disk. Very odd. Perhaps I'll just wait for 5.3 unless there is another suggestion.

Side note: I have an amd 6200+ and now an Amd Quad 940. There is significant improvement in the 940. Project compile went from 12 seconds down to 9. Copying 12GIG file went from 8 minutes down to 5. So now I'm waiting on 5.3 to see if ext4 helps that even more! Any day I hope.

let me know if there are other things to try for the esata. Have a great evening.

Jerry