P67a-gd65 - how to enable marvel sata ports 7-8?

built my first pc.
using p67a-gd65.
ports 1-6 are managed by intel code, if I understand correctly. They work fine and I can see them in the bios.
ports 7-8 are managed by marvel code, if I understand correctly. They do not work and I cannot see them in the bios, but I do see a reference to marvel at boot-up.
is there something special I have to do to enable ports 7-8?
I searched the forum and can't find anything on this.
thanks in advance for any help you might provide.

I must be missing something; exactly where and how do I enable the controller?
when I look at 'system status' I see
sata port1
sata port2
sata port3
sata port4
sata port5
sata port6
and it shows the devices I have plugged in, and that is good.
I then see
e-sata port1
e-sata port2
where 'I thought' sata port7 and sata port8 would be listed, and they show a status of 'not present'.
thanks

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