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.