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Only one of two hard drives showing up from esata port to NexStar docking station
On Stephen Mann’s recommendation I got a NexStar docking station with two hard drive ports, USB 3.0, and esata cables, which worked well with a laptop I was editing on on a remote shoot with USB 3.0. Now that I’m back home and trying to edit on my desktop, at first it didn’t show up at all on my desktop. Now it shows one hard drive, but not the second one. I would try to trouble shoot this more myself but am on a tight deadline and have other work to do, but what’s the deal? How could it detect one hard drive but not the other, when they worked fine a few days ago on my laptop?
I haven’t tried using the USB 3.0, which I’ll try. If that doesn’t work, I’m not going to have much more time to trouble shoot this before I do some major work arounds.
Edit: USB 3.0 works and both hard drives show up, but I’ll try esata again later. Anyone know what the issue could be?
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Quite possibly one of the eSata cables became loose during transport? I’d reinstall all cables and see if it shows up.
Also- are these drives striped together? If so, then they will show up as one drive.
Dave
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It can’t be the cable if the PC sees one drive. I don’t have eSata on the PC where I use the NexStar dock but I do have USB3 which works just fine.
Steve Mann
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[Dave Osbun] “Quite possibly one of the eSata cables became loose during transport? I’d reinstall all cables and see if it shows up.
Also- are these drives striped together? If so, then they will show up as one drive.”
I tried two cables. The first one (which I had for a while and I used on a separate hard drive enclosure) didn’t show any hard drives, and the other one, which came with the docking station, shows one drive. I don’t know what striped together means, but probably not.
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