Is the ProBook 4520s eSATA port multiplier compatible

I have an HP ProBook 4520s running Windows 7 64 bit.
Is the eSATA port compatible with port multiplier products? If not, is there any hardware I can purchase to solve this?
This is a quote from the external eSATA enclosure that I'm trying to run.
Q Only a single drive appears when using eSATA.
o This means that the eSATA port that the MB561US-4S-1 is connected to does not support port multiplication. Therefore, only the drive in the top bay can be seen by the system. There is a port multiplier built into the MB561 which encodes the 4 SATA connections to a single signal, however another port multiplier is required on the system to decode that signal back to 4 individual SATA connections.

I assume since you cannot see all of the drives it does not, you can try the chat feature on this page to see if a support rep can answer for sure, if not they can log a case number and maybe an engineer can find out and get back to you.
https://h50203.www5.hp.com/wclweb/wclentry.aspx?lc=en-US&cc=US&origin=nc

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