Spinrite has been running great with my new Zimaboard however I have quite a number of drives to process and the normal SATA connector that comes with the Zimaboard is very stiff. I've already slightly damaged one of the connectors connecting/disconnecting drives. So I would like to use a hard drive dock with the Zimaboard and Spinrite. I have a dual eSATA drive dock and a conversion cable (eSATA to SATA connectors), so far that has not worked, no drive is seen by Spinrite. My (limited) understanding of the eSATA to SATA conversion cable is that it makes the dock look like an ordinary SATA drive with no hotswap capability, is that right? Or is the dual drive dock the issue, do I need a single drive dock with eSATA connector? Startech makes one but it's realatively expensive and I'd like to confirm it will work.
I know the eSATA dock is working, if I boot into CasaOS it sees the dock and inserted hard drive correctly.
In the meantime I ordered a trayless mobile rack, very cheap, which presents the normal SATA power and data connector combo and will at least solve the stiff connector problem.
Thanks!
I know the eSATA dock is working, if I boot into CasaOS it sees the dock and inserted hard drive correctly.
In the meantime I ordered a trayless mobile rack, very cheap, which presents the normal SATA power and data connector combo and will at least solve the stiff connector problem.
Thanks!
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