E-Sata dive will not work with KN9 Ultra

[musicman53]

Just connected an Antec MX-1 E-Sata case with a 500Gb WD drive to my KN9 Ultra AM2 NF5 board.
The dive cannot be seen by windows(where the others are).
It is seen in devices but with a yellow mark.
IF I connect it via USB then no problem.
It seems that Antec never said that it has problems with NVidia chip sets BUT it does!
Suggestions please.

[BUFF]

have you got the nVidia storage driver installed (their equiv. of AHCI)?
Tried another cable e.g. the WD Mybook cable is known to need trimming back a little.

[musicman53]

have you got the nVidia storage driver installed (their equiv. of AHCI)?
Tried another cable e.g. the WD Mybook cable is known to need trimming back a little.

Yep.
Nothin wrong with the connectors.
Other eSata cases work ok.
It is a problem with that exact brand and certain Abit boards.

[Abit_NL]

Is the HDD detected by the BIOS correctly (when it is connected before boot)?

You get a yellow mark in the device manager, but what are the details about that? Driver not installed? Or device cannot be started?

[gilgamesh]

Yep.
Nothin wrong with the connectors.
Other eSata cases work ok.
It is a problem with that exact brand and certain Abit boards.

no

I have a abit board ip35 pro to be honest, and I use mine with a WD external 1TB mybook. No issues at all.

As Buff has said have you tried the NVIDIA controllers at all?

gilgamesh

[BUFF]

Yep.
Nothin wrong with the connectors.
Other eSata cases work ok.
It is a problem with that exact brand and certain Abit boards.

going by your earlier comment it is a problem with that brand of external case & nVidia chipset mobos in general (which includes certain abit ones)?
If so & it's a known problem then it's really Antec (or perhaps nVidia's) problem to sort.