Bought myself a nice new 4-bay enclosure for the mass of hard-drives I seem to be collecting. It runs both USB3 and eSATA, which is nice.
Newegg.com - IVIEW HFR2-SU3 RAID 0/1/3/5/10, JBOD, CLONE, Normal 4 3.5" Drive Bays USB 3.0 / eSATA 4-Bay HDD RAID Enclosure
I already have eSATA, but at four years (going on five), this tower doesn't have USB3. I figured I'd run eSATA for now and when I do my new build here in a few months, switch over to USB3 if needed (but eSATA supposedly is faster).
Well--the problem I have is that the multiplexing doesn't quite work, and I'm not sure if that's my eSATA controller's fault (as in--not supported), or if it is on the enclosure side of the equation and it's being finicky\buggy\etc.
I've got three drives in the enclosure now, and on eSATA, it doesn't recognize any but one of the drives. USB works fine--sees all three, but not eSATA. Is it my J-Micron controller that I'm using since 2008, or is it this new enclosure?
The chipset running the eSATA is a
J-Micron JMB363 on an
Asus P5K-Deluxe\Wi-Fi AP
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