Hi all,

I just this weekend clean installed Win 8.1 x64 (and applied all patches offered by WU) and have a couple little problems. The main one is the jMicron *eSata* driver (R1.17.65.11) fails to install with the message "UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices: error" which is pretty unhelpful.

This driver worked fine in Win 7 x64. Is anyone using this driver on Win 8.1?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers

Hi Fernando,

The driver I am using is the eSATA one (not the SATA one) from the jmicron ftp site (JMB36X_WinDrv_R1.17.65_WHQL_eSATA.zip). Like I say it worked fine in Win 7 (the driver would install and I could hot plug eSATA drives).

Interestingly, when I plug an eSATA drive, Win 8.1 does not respond in any visible way and nothing appears in Dev Manager.

Stupid question: How do I use the generic 8.1 driver for the jMicroon eSATA ports?

Cheers

Zitat

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Is the JMicron eSATA Controller listed within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager?

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No, the jMicron eSATA controller is not listed in the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager. All I have is "ATA Channel 0", "ATA Channel 1" and "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller". The "Storage Controllers" section lists "Intel Desktop/... SATA RAID Controller" and "Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller".

Zitat

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Do you get any yellow mark (means "missing driver"), when you plug in any device?

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Yes, I do get a yellow mark when I plug in my WD USB HDD. Incidentally, the WD SES driver also refuses to install from Windows Update (just says it failed with no explanation) and fails with a "Invalid Data" message when I try manually. The drive still works regardless.

Zitat

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Is the JMicron eSATA Controller enabled within the BIOS?

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Yes, the jMicron controller is enabled in the BIOS.

This is strange because I used the eSATA port in Win7 to do a backup just before I shutdown to install Win 8.1 from a USB stick (made with rufus).

Could it be the way I did the install? I disconnected all drives except the boot one prior to the install and then reconnected them after. This was probably not required but I read that this is best way to go when installing Win 7 onto SSD when you also have other internal HDD and applied the same logic for Win 8.1.

Cheers

Here are the hardware IDs:
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2362&SUBSYS_84601043&REV_10
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2362&SUBSYS_84601043
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2362&CC_010185
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2362&CC_0101

It seems that this device is the jMicron controller. I tried to manually update the driver but it failed with the message "The data is invalid". Same message as I get for the WD SES driver. Curious...

Hi Fernando,

It looks like I'm snookered until jMicron release a new driver.

Anyways, thanks very much for your help.
Cheers

Zitat

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Why do you want to use a JMicron driver, when the MS SATA driver works fine?

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The MS SATA driver doesn't appear to hot plug. I plug the eSATA HDD in and nothing happens...

EDIT by Fernando: Quoting corrected.

I'm sorry but I don't see how HotSwap! can work in this case because windows does not know that the HDD is there. It is not recognised when it is plugged in: it does not appear in device manager or in "This PC".

Incidentally, I use hot swapping software called "USB Safely Remove" which works really well.

Zitat von Fernando

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Maybe the HDD doesn't get enough power.

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It's a WD "My Book" powered by its own external power cable. It works fine when plugged in via USB but it's only USB 2.0 that is slooow when doing backups.

EDIT by Fernando: Wrong quotes corrected