Georg Havelka wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am using an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe Motherboard and have an external
> eSATA-harddisk connected via the JMicron eSATA-Port found on the
> motherboard. All is working well except for one tiny annoyance: every
> time I turn on the external harddisk while WinXP is running
> (hot-plugging) the whole system freezes to a complete halt for a few
> seconds while the harddisk spins up. Nothing works during this time, no
> mouse/keyboard, no downloads, just nothing...
>
> As soon as the harddisk has spun up, everything returns back to normal
> and the running tasks continue to work like nothing has happened.
>
> So it's just a minor problem but still I would like to know if this
> behaviour is normal or if it can be prevented? Has anybody else
> experienced anything like this?
>
> btw: the harddisk is a Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB 16MB SATA II
> the eSATA enclosure is a RaidSonic Icy Dock MB-559US-1S, 3.5", USB
> 2.0/eSATA
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> bye,
> Georg
>
>
> PS: For answers by mail remove "_keinspam_" from the mail-address!
>
That sounds to me, like bad driver design. Like the driver is
staying at interrupt level, waiting for the connected drive to
signal it is "ready".
This driver is dated April 25, 2007 and is 3.7MB in size. I don't
see any release notes, so it is hard to guess as to what was fixed.
Getting a driver straight from the chip maker, sometimes gets you
a fix faster, than waiting for Asus to put the file on their
server. The INF in here (jraid_i.inf), has entries for various Asus boards.
Entries are like "PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360&SUBSYS_82081043" and lack
any model number comment text. I do know that 1043 is for Asustek,
so at least that seems consistent. But I don't have any table
that maps the 8208 part, to a motherboard model number.
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/JMB36X_R1_17_17.zip
Paul
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