![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the computer refused to boot if I’d anything plugged into the eSATA port on this card. I thought that may be this less popular controller would have poorer support in Linux. This controller is found in fewer products than the ASM1061, but it also looked like a popular controller. I then installed a StarTech PEXESATA2 PCIe with a Sil3132 SATA controller instead. I found a driver from Asmedia, but it performed no differently than the default driver. Yet, Windows couldn’t talk to it properly. Based on a search for ASM1061 on Amazon, it looks like this is a common SATA controller that’s found in a lot of products. The other disks didn’t show up in either the Device Manager nor in Disk Management utility.Īfter doing some more research, I learned that Microsoft’s Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver supposedly supports modern and legacy port-multipliers (CBS and FIS/FBS), yet it doesn’t seem to want to talk to my Asmedia ASM1061 controller. However, in Windows 10 I could only see the top-most disk in the enclosure. It seemed like even the SATA driver in the BIOS worked with the port multiplier. I then booted into Windows, and noticed that all my new disks also showed up in the boot menu. It worked flawlessly without any additional configuration or setup required. First I booted up in Linux because I wasn’t sure if Linux even supported port multipliers. I installed the new disks and connected the disk enclosure over eSATA. Using a port-multiplier, your PC’s SATA controller can instruct the enclosure to let it read and write to the correct disk in the enclosure. For a single eSATA connection to hook up with a multi-disk enclosure, the SATA controller in the enclosure, as well as the SATA controller in your PC, must support SATA port-multiplying. This difference changes how a few the disks can be used in Windows.Ī regular SATA connection only supports connecting to one disk at a time. USB 3.0 would technically be faster, but I wanted to connect it with eSATA as this would make my PC consider them to be internal disks rather than external removable disks. Rather than filling up my PC tower with a growing number of disks, I got an Icy Box 4-bay external hard disk enclosure with eSATA-300 and USB 3.0 to house my new disks. Most of these disks were several years old, but it has still been inconvenient that so many disks went at the same time. Over the last few months, I’ve witnessed an extinction-level mass die-off of all my hard disks at home. Surprisingly, Linux was much happier about this arrangement than Windows 10. (A big box full of hard disks.) I intended to use this in a dual-booting setup with Linux and Windows having access to separate disks inside the enclosure. I recently got an eSATA port-multiplier capable external multi-bay disk enclosure. ![]()
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