> > 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. > 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