ESATA problem on K9A2 Platinum

I've been having a baffling problem with my new external hard drive, a WD MyBook Studio Edition.  It's firewire and usb connections work fine, but I have had zero luck getting the esata port to work.  When I have the HD plugged in and turned off, turning on the computer will turn on the white light on the HD that means its on, but I can't see it in the bios or in vista.  Any ideas?

Disk manager doesn't see the disk yet, that is my first and biggest problem.
How do I know if the port is turned on?
Bios is set to AHCI.
Sorry I didn't see these responses sooner, apparently I didn't have notifications turned on.  I really appreciate you all being helpful, as WD tech support told me I was on my own pretty much.

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    Thanks for the links. 
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    "Thanks for the links. 
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    Provide screenshot from Device manager.

  • K9A2 Platinum Sata Raid Problems

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  • K9A2 Platinum Raid problem

    Hi i have 4 days trying to install my new system. And the mobo do not want to recognize the drives in sata 5 and 6, those controlled by promise.
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    hi, you could use the promise controller for your raid array using the rear esata connectors (with a esata to sata cable) and in side ports 5-6, use the sb600 not in raid for the other drives, like bas was saying each controller has it own bios, so what that means is if promise raid is on (sb600 off) the drives would show up in the promise raid setup and the other way around (drives in the SB600 RAID set up) and also if both raid controllers are off the drives show up in the main board bios. once i did have both controllers run through their setup at the same time but i got "some memory ran out of room" message after post,..
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  • K9A2 Platinum Raid 1 Setup / Installation Problem

    I'm trying to setup a raid 1 with my new K9A2 Platinum board. I would prefer to use the promise controller but have had no luck with the SB600 or Promise.
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