I recently purchased a XPS-8900. It works beautifully except for one very serious issue: the BIOS doesn't detect my eSATA PCI adapter, a Syba 2 Port eSATA II PCIe x 1 Controller (SD-SA2PEX-2E).
I need a port multiplier compatible eSATA adapter to access my data, about 20TB of storage, hosted in two eSATA disk enclosures. The enclosures are worth hundreds of dollars by themselves so simply replacing them (e.g. with USB ones) is a non starter.
The symptoms are identical to this XPS-8500 issue which was fixed via a BIOS update (A09).
I tried upgrading from the factory BIOS (v2.0.1) to the latest one (v2.0.3), but that did not fix the problem. The PCIe adapter is still not discovered by the BIOS.
Anyone else experiencing this ?
