Identifying SATA drives connected through Seritek PCI card

Does anyone who has a Seritek or other PCI expansion card to add external SATA drives know of a way to identify which ports are connected to which drives?
I have a 4-bay external SATA enclosure, and there's no good way to identify which drives are in which bays (short of writing the drive name on the outside of the bay, which I don't want to do since I may well swap out drives). I have the bays numbered, and if I can get those numbers to correspond with the numbers of the 4 ports on the card, I'll have an organised system...
Will anything in the /dev directory help me?
Many thanks!
Matt

If your card is SiliconImage based (Vendor ID 0x1095) then you'll need to update the drivers. If you don't know the brand of the card, it doesn't really matter as pretty much any SI based card will work with any brand drivers.Download and install the Sonnet E2P Driver from here http://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/software/DSKCD-E2PE342PE_NEW.dmg which should update the SI3132 kext
Bob's your uncle. Hope this helps.
PS otherwise, what vendor ID do you see in the System Profiler?

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Driver development for custom PCI card

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Use the Sonnet tech cards, they have a 10.6 compatibility matrix in the support section of their site. Yes, I paid more for the card when I got it, but I haven't had any headaches with it at all. I guess you get what you pay for.
This is good advice for both PCIe and Expresscard. I have discussed this with Sonnet and I think they regret the cheap/expensive strategy owing to the lack of support on SI drivers. They did lower the price on the Expresscard/34 Pro by 1/3 , or $100.
I still have their E2P (PCIe Si 2 port based card) and an Expresscard/34 (non-Pro) available cheap for anyone who thinks Si drivers are a good value.
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