Installing Esata PCI-e controller cards

I have an IdeaCenter K450 and I have installed (2) two port esata controllers and niether of them is recognized. It does not ask for drivers or a installation CD. My second question is, there difference between an esata Raid controller and an esata controller?

I've to admit, it's new to me, and I believed to many others as well.
How old do you feel PCIE technology is?
To me, 3 years ago, Intel annouces PCIE platform to take over AGP and PCI on the number of parity bits handled to make smoother and faster communication with the board.
About 1 year later, nvidia annouces SLi to bridge 2 PCIE x16 GPUs for faster performance, following by ATI's Crossfire several months later.
If PCIE was really mature, all PCI slots would be simply phased out today on a motherboard. To me, the reason for the standard PCI to remain on a board is like a fall back plan, where makers do not jumped onto the bandwagon to start rolling out masses of PCIE cards. Probably high cost, probably more R&Ds needed due to compatibility issues, this I'm really not sure.
All in all, some have success and some have not, which is why I said test and trial.

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