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 <[email protected]> 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.
