I purchased two AMS DS2350 5 bay Esata towers and hooked one to my HP quad core with a PCIe card. It worked great and I added 5TB to my computer of drive space. I then added the second tower to my home server with 2 drives of 1T . It plugged in great and recognized the drives and I added them to the memory space. My next two back ups failed as it appears that when the home server tries to acces the two drives, it can see them but not write to them. The tower is using a SIL4726 internal 5 SATA port multiplier. Any idea why the home server suddenly decides to not use these two drives?
When I go to the home server system and manage hard drives, the drives show up in the bottom half of the drive manager but not in the top half? If you try to look at properties it says it cannot do this due to an error. After a while I get the red eye of death on the home server and have to shut everything down and disconnect the SATA tower and turn on the home server. Everything works again. It seems strange that a ESATA port on the home server will not use these drives.