Storage Solutions Hard disk docking station : what an amazing idea

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@stackoverflow: if you are upgrading from XP to vista there might be issues installing the drivers. Still there's no harm giving a try.

I'll be in a better position to assist you if i knew the h/w that you are running.
 
sarang said:
did you enable AHCI? and install the AHCI drivers for your mobo/disc controller?

Only then it'll hot be swappable.

The trouble is you'll either need a floppy drive or need to slipstream the drivers into your XP/vista install disc to install the AHCI drivers.
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NOPE !! ... AHCI not installed in my setup, I know that my setups will need to be redone after switching on AHCI and I cannot do this - I have way too many programs installed in Windows to ever rethink of reinstalling. I would rather run the Dock as a USB then do a reinstall of XP and Vista. I did try connect the Dock as eSATA (without AHCI) but the HDD ran only in PIO mode :(

@janitha ... WHAAAAT !! ... you stalking me ?? :ohyeah:
 
@easy: i guess you'll be having some top of the shelf h/w (wasn't stalking like janitha :P just observed you had some good stuff.)

So if you're mobo has dual controllers, many Asus boards sported an extra JMicron controller. In that case there is a way for you.

You can boot from a hdd connected to the inte/nvidia/whatever controller and enable ahci for the other install ahci drivers for that controller and then swap the disk back in its place. Then repeat the same for the other controller.

No reinstalls and your eSata works as expected with hot-swap n all. What use is a 2grand dock if you can't hot swap it?
 
^^Right@sarang. I have 2 of the Vantecs and they sure are hot swappable.

Btw, why slipstream AHCI drivers for a non-boot drive? Just install drivers afterward.
 
sarang said:
@stackoverflow: if you are upgrading from XP to vista there might be issues installing the drivers. Still there's no harm giving a try.

I'll be in a better position to assist you if i knew the h/w that you are running.
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@sarang,

I have a gigabyte 945GM-S2 motherboard, with C2D 1.86 and 1GB RAM

I will upgrade the ram if I am to install vista.

However I am not able to understand how to install AHCI drivers while installation of vista

Also I have XP at the moment, how can I install AHCI on XP?

Also without AHCI, will eSata not work? on xp or vista?
 
I'll check the board at Gigabyte's site and get back to you.
Installing drivers for vista would be same as installing them on XP.
 
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