Would that SATA controller work out of the box?

[chrisf4lc0n]

I have found an OEM PCIE controller based on JMB363 chip on Bay and I am considering buying it...
The chip is listed on NAS4Free website as working straight from the box, but since it is an OEM design they might have changed something to make it incompatible...
Has anyone had any experience with similar product?
I sent a PM to the seller to ask if he had any feedback from FeeBSD user, but he could not answer to that question...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170938089689? ... 1438.l2649

[chrisf4lc0n]

Just ordered it...
Found it even cheaper on Amazon..., so will give it a go

[raulfg3]

must work, but sorry I do not have one to be totally sure.

[chrisf4lc0n]

I will report back once I put my hands on it

[Buhu]

I think it really will work, my NAS boots from the controller with Freebsd 9.0.x.x

kernel: ahci0: <JMicron JMB363 AHCI SATA controller> on atapci0

[chrisf4lc0n]

Thanks Buhu, or should I say "Danke schön"
It is up and running out of the box:

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May 25 19:46:21 nas4free kernel: atapci0: <JMicron JMB363 UDMA133 controller> port 0xe040-0xe047,0xe030-0xe033,0xe020-0xe027,0xe010-0xe013,0xe000-0xe00f mem 0xfea10000-0xfea11fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
May 25 19:46:21 nas4free kernel: ahci0: <JMicron JMB363 AHCI SATA controller> at channel -1 on atapci0

It is not the most beautiful piece of equipment, but it does the job:

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nas4free:~# zpool status
  pool: ZFS_RAID
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        ZFS_RAID    ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada0    ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada2    ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-1  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada3    ONLINE       0     0     0
            ada4    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors