How to eject sata drives on express card bus

I recently added a Siig sata express card and two serial drives to my MacBook Pro. When mounted in the Finder there is no grey "eject arrow" to the right of the icon in the side bar like there is for usb or firewire mounted drives. How can I get one? Right now the only way I know to properly unmount the drive is using the program MainMenu or Disk Utility. Thanks for the help in advance.

They are separate drives. My express card has two eSATA ports. I installed the drives without any RAID arrays. I do get the card icon in my menu bar when it is on. The only function it allows though, is to power off the card. If I power off the card without ejecting the drives I get the warning message that I didn't properly unmount the drives before disconnecting. I see no reason why I would need to RAID these drives to get the OS to recognize them as external.

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