Bought this with the idea to use it to replace my 2xSIL3114 controllers hoping for higher performance as I had a new Gigabyte 870A-USB3L. No luck only one card would sort of work at a time. When both cards were placed into the board only one would be detected.
Got hold of updated firmware for SATA HOST - both cards appeared and the 8 x 1tb drives were reported at bios level but at driver level on BSD some drives would disappear or worse claim everything was fine until you tried to read the data. Could not find drivers for it while using Solaris
This card was tested on Solaris 10 & 11 various builds couldn't get a driver, tried BSD still no go
Linux was much better it had some kind of working driver but it would report read problems every so often during the test - claiming random faulty drives.
The cards appeared to work using MS Windows 7, but I could not test fully as my 8x1TB are in ZFS format - MS Windows 7 just wants to format over them.
Stripped down a machine so I could test these cards on its Mainboard Asus M4A77T/USB - waste of time same problems (note tried various firmware I got from the JMICRON SITE).
Bought another Mainboard an Asus M5A87 - still no luck same result as the Gigabyte and the M4A77T - all this took weeks of checking.
Contacted the Chip Controller Manufacturer in Taiwan by email as it was their site which claimed compatibility for my OS needs - after extensive jpeg's been sent to them they pointed at the two covered chips (black and red with sata raid written on the stickers claiming that its likely these were causing my problems and I should speak to the supplier of the board for resolution.
Just placed my Sil3114's into the new Asus M5A87 I had been testing these cards on - the Sil3114's worked immediately without problems ZFS spotted damage done during my attempt to get these JMB363's working and it repaired the lot - My ZFS box got more RAM a better OS, Linux distro Ubuntu using FUSE, all works fine still looking for a faster reliable controller that works on all OS which doesn't cost an arm, a leg and then some.
I suspect this card design using the JMB363 works fine on MS systems and not much else.
Packed the cards back into their box, most likely I'll just destroy and bin them.
Seems I cannot give a rating of no star - that's what I would give if I could choose it!
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