Asmedia 106x SATA Controller and two Physical Controllers?

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I have an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard. It comes with an Intel Controller, a Marvell Controller, and an ASMedia 1061 Controller.

The Intel controller supports 2xSATA 6Gb/s ports (connected to 1 SSD and 1 HDD) AND 4 x SATA 3Gb/s ports (connected to 2 optical drives and 2 HDDs). Not currently setup in Raid.

The Marvell controller provides 2x SATA 6Gb/s ports (connected to 2 HDDs).

The ASMedia ASM1061 Controller is to support 2x Power eSATA 6Gb/s ports (external).

I also have installed an STLab A-480 SATA controller Card to run the drives in the 2 docking bays in my case.

Everything works great EXCEPT the two Power eSATA 6Gb/s ports (external). Nothing I plug in there are recognized.

Shouldn't the ASmedia 106x SATA Controller (as seen in the Device Manager) handle both the ports on the Motherboard AND the ports on the Add-in card? Or will it only handle one at a time?
 
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Are the drives connected and powered up prior to the computer being turned on? I have eSATA on my computer, and if the drive isn't powered up before I turn on the PC, it isn't recognized.

The software for ASmedia should ask you for which adapter (if it behaves like other RAID controllers I have in my servers).

My software shows controller #1 - drive1, drive2, drive3, etc, then controller #2 - drive1, drive2, drive3, etc....
 
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No they are not. I could try that. But the point of the external ports was to connect to a HDD Docking Station to hot-swap some drives that I don't need to have connected all the time. True, I could use the hot-swap in the docking bays, but those are full right now :)

I'm in the process of moving files over from multiple systems and consolidating them on this one PC, the more drives I can have connected the better. Plus I'd really like to just be able to have everything working together all the time.

In the mean time I'll try rebooting with the drives connected and powered on to see what happens.

 
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My dock is only eSata, but it supports hot swapping on other systems. So I would think it should work here.:??:
 
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Just rebooted with a drive in the dock, powered on and connected. Still not recognized.

I can pull it out and pop it in the docking bay in the case and it sees it just fine.

Anything else to check?

It just seems that for some reason the ports aren't active, but I don't know how to verify it or not.
 
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Do you have internal drives connected to that card? I know some share the same port internal/external (i.e. 4 internal ports, ports 3 & 4 are shared with the external ports) and in this case, if a drive is connected to the internal side - the external is disabled.
 
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The ports with the problem are the two ports on the motherboard, green, available on the back plane.

The installed "extra controller card", has the jumpers set for only the internal ports to be active.

I've been reading other posts and I wonder if I need to enable these ports in the EFI BIOS some way.... there are a few things that seem to be "disabled" in there. Guess I could try "enabling" them and see what happens.
 
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After checking the BIOS, the only things "disabled" are
Intel LAN PXE OPROM
Realtek PXE OPROM

everything else is enabled, including: ASM1061 Storage Controller AHCI mode

So I'm back to square one 🙁
 
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