I'm using a RocketRAID 622 card that came with my eSATA 4 bay
enclosure. Are you using the same one?
I tried both ports and it works. However, I have not had the chance to
try BOTH ports simultaneously as I only have one 4 bay unit. Like you,
I actually thought of getting another enclosure but chanced on another
HP N36L unit to house another 4 drives.
On a side note, the RAID card is a x1 PCIe 2.0 which means 500MB/s
transfer rates. While it's enough bandwidth for one 4 bay enclosure,
perhaps it would be limiting if you want to make two 4 bay enclosures
simultaneously sharing the bandwidth.
On 19 February 2013 00:57, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> Does anyone know of a low-cost e-sata card that has the port multiplier
> feature enabled for multiple multi-drive enclosures?
>
> The card I have now has two e-sata ports and supports the port multiplier
> feature, but only for one multi-drive enclosure. The other port can only be
> used for a single-drive enclosure. Now that I'm full in my multi-drive
> enclosure, I want to add a second one. Lo and behold, it don't work. I
> could get the same card and put it in another machine, and use the
> multi-drive enclosure that way...but I'd rather max on a single machine's
> potential first.
>
> I'd much rather not pay $200 for a single card.
