Does anybody here on these forums have knowledge on tweaking control of Dynamic Power Panagement?
Certain external IEEE firewire and all my USB and (best of my knoledge) most my eSATA portables do not comply with settings to turn hard drives in Advance Power Management for XP MCE 2005 or XP x64.
I have on my primary workstation (ASUS MAXIMUS FORMULA SE (X38) a PCI slot plate from my old ASUS A8N-SLI Premium and it is connected to only one extra (post 5) SATA on the ICH9R. I hen for test connected an eSATA box with no such lck of active DPM and even connected an extra WD Raptor 74GB 10K RMP directly to the port extender with the included Molex power and still, no DPM. If it is working, it is not fully turning off hard drives in set time (15min, even set to 5min for test). I can hear it sound like it started bk up but t weas still warm to the touch as if it is powered to some degree. My IEEE 500GB Seagate complies completely and actually has to spin up before I can acces it after set time (timeout).
Is this a driver issue from the card hte drives are connected to or the BIOS or OS settings to further adjust? Can somebody please help or at least set me in the right direction.
Also, since the eSATA to SATA on ASUS back plate do not turn off, I have to remember to turn it off myself but if I resume Windows session later, Intel Matrix Manager is stressing on trying to find the drive that is either off or unpluged (cause it is in another room). How do I fix this to be treated as a PnP drive and not part of the RAID controller monitoring? System reacts slow as the "disc" icon keeps poppin up every few moments to search for it. It stops as soon as I plug any drive into the rear SATA on that port. (doesn't have to be the same drive). I am willing to put in a dedicated PCI-E eSATA card on back to fix if it will indeed be treaded with DPM control for power saving (hardware saving and reduced heat in summer).
