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970 Extreme3 R2.0 & esata enclosure

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Topic: 970 Extreme3 R2.0 & esata enclosure

Posted By: ecip
Subject: 970 Extreme3 R2.0 & esata enclosure
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2021 at 8:16pm

I've got a 4 bay external enclosure, running on "single" mode (meaning all 4 drives show up individually). The motherboard has 5 SATA outputs, which are all used. To my understanding, the esata output acts as SATA port 6.

Problem is, that when I hook the enclosure up to the esata port, only one (1) of four (4) drives is recognized by both windows AND the BIOS (BIOS is running in Legacy mode at the moment, with AHCI enabled).

Is this simply a limitation on the motherboard? Is this a symptom of not using UEFI? Am I missing something else?