ESATA Dropping Off System

Hi All,

I've been running my current setup with an external eSATA (Seagate Freeagent Extreme 1GB) for nearly 2 years without any issues. I've recently added another eSATA Lacie q2 Quadra to the system and shortly after that these two drives will randomly totally drop off the system.

They've even dropped off the system as they are being read from or written to ... very odd.

I've read that a possible solution (with caveats) is to turn off write caching in the policies tab of the drive properties. The problem is that the OS tells me that the drivers don't allow this to be turned off.

Anyone have a possible solution to this?

Cheers,

James

BTW, I've already made sure that the power settings don't turn the drives off.

Hmm ... OK, a not solved!

I have the lacie q2 plugged into the eSATA port provided as standard on the P6T Delux V2 mobo and the Seagate Extreme plugged into an Akasa expander port slotted into one of the PCI backplate mounts and then plugged into one of the internal SATA ports.

The one plugged into the internal SATA port is still dropping off the system but the eSATA (Lacie) is fine.