ESATA hard drive vanishing

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AlanHo

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Vista 32
ASUS P5KC Mobo
Intel Q6600 CPU
Antec 650 W PSU
Two SATA 320 GB internal drives connected to SATA slots 1 and 2 of 4
An external ASUS eSATA and USB2 enclosure with WD 640 GB SATA hard drive connected to an eSATA port on the computer.

The external eSATA hard drive works fine after a reboot but after a few hours it vanishes and cannot be found by Explorer or the Control panel even though it has not been accessed to modify, delete or add files. A reboot finds the drive and it works again for a while.

I have an eSATA backplate port connected to slot 3 on the mobo. The mobo also has an integral eSATA port on the back. The problem occurs when I connect the external drive to either of these ports.

The external enclosure also has a USB2 connection - if I use this the problem does not occur indicating that the hard drive itself is OK.

Any suggestions?
 
Did you happen to find a solution to this? I'm having what is probably a similar problem in that my drive is detected via USB, but not at all via eSATA.
 
I am afraid this is not going to help you.

My problem seems to have gone away - the external drive is now performing OK - despite me not consciously doing anything about it.
 
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