I did enable the Marvell controller in the BIOS when I tested it plugged into the red port, but since it was through the bracket, and thus an eSATA to SATA connection (versus a eSATA to eSATA connection), maybe that was the problem. I don't know. Maybe I did something wrong in that test.
One thing is that when connected to a black port, I can turn the external SATA drive on and off while Vista is running. It pauses for a second, but it works. So that seems good.
As for trying it out, you don't need a 7GB file. It happens with 500MB files too if you have one of those

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