Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe eSATA Port Not Working

[morocco31477]

I just bought an external enclousure. I know it works, I'm transfering stuff to it right now via USB. But the eSATA port on the motherboard doesn't seem to work. I tried two different eSATA cables, so that's not the problem either.

I did notice one item in my device manager that is unrecognized. It's an unknown device. Does this board require a driver for eSATA to work? I installed the chipset drivers, and everything else in device manager is recognized, so I don't think that a driver is the problem.

Please help.

[SmaugyGrrr]

Apparently Driver Genius can identify unknown devices. I haven't tried that aspect of the program though.

Another thing to try is to go through the BIOS checking for/fiddling with SATA-like things. You know, real scientific like.

[morocco31477]

Thanks for the Driver Genius suggestion, however that program downloads the drivers real funky (very slow connection or something). Anyway, the problem is solved. To get eSATA working on an Asus motherboard, you just have to enable "JMicron RAID Controller" in the BIOS. I set it to AHCI. I fixed this issue AFTER I already transfered 250GB worth of data over to my external HD via USB 2.0. DOH!