Re: eSATA problems with ThermalTake BlacX Duet
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:52:08 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> I have a BlacX Duet with two 1.5TB drives in it.
Try with just one disk attached.
Has the onboard sata controller/sata card the "port multiplier" function
enabled? It seems to be a requirement to get the 2 disks working when
using the esata port.
> When I connect it via
> USB, both drives show up as SCSI disks and all is well. I'd really like
> SMART support, though, so I want to connect it via eSATA instead. When I
> do, though, I get a series of SATA errors to the console about not being
> able to establish a link and attempting to reset. I have another drive
> connected via the same SATA card, and it works just fine as well
> (including SMART).
>
> Has anyone had any success with connecting to this device via eSATA?
> What am I missing?
Open a console and run "tail -f | dmesg" then connect the esata external
disk and put here the output.
Things to try:
1/ Another esata cable
2/ Another case
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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