Originally Posted By: tahir
I don't think there's anything in BIOS that says how many controllers there are, I might take a look later.

The bios won't show you any info on other controllers. It'll only be able to control the drives directly connected to sata ports on the chipset.
External controllers use their own chipset and hence their own drivers. The bios is unaware of them. As said, I've known those to give some very strange results, so I would avoid them.
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