eSATA/SATA PCIe card not working

[Argentic]

At first I wanted to have more SATA connectors, but now I want to use this PCIe card for eSATA for backing my NAS up. But I cant see HDD in the web interface (for testing I use the internal connector with a SATA drive, because I doesn't have yet an eSATA drive).

The card: Digitus DS-30102-1
Chipset: Sil 3132

The jumper setting is correct.

As far as I see, it should work, right?
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=siis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE
Or is SIIS in FreeNAS not included?

Either way, how can I fix it?

NAS:
Build: FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201512121950
Mainboard: ASUS P9D-V
RAM: 2x8 ECC Kingston RAM 1333MHz
CPU: Intel Celeron G1840T @ 2.50GHz 1333MHz

 

[joeschmuck]

I don't know if the driver is included in FreeNAS, it's possible it's not. So, the jumpers on the card are all on the pin 2 to 3, the upper pins, all the way across the board, right? That enables the internal connections.

Just a work of advice... Do not hot plug the eSATA drive. Shut down your system, connect the drive, power up your system, import your pool, do your backup, export your pool, shut down, disconnect the drive, and power your system back up. If you try to do things otherwise, well you risk data loss.

 

[Argentic]

Yes, the jumpers are set this way.

Really? No hot plugging? This removes more than half the advantage of eSATA over SATA. I want just to connect the drive, an let the replication run. Probably on a weekly basis and doing it this way every week would be very annoying.
What is the exact problem with hot plugging? If it is once correctly detected, can still errors occur? What are the practical issues that occur?

 

[joeschmuck]

The issue with hot plugging really comes down to good hardware truly capable of working properly but more importantly operator error, you must remove the pool and import it each time, it's not just plug it in and unplug it. Yes, you can hot plug if you like but experience is to turn off your system if at all possible. I have given you my best advice on this topic.

As for the SATA/eSATA card, if you are sure the card is functional (not broken) then it must be the driver not being present. You could verify this by running FreeBSD on your system (disconnect your hard drives and install a test drive) just to see if it works that way. If it works, then submit a bug report on it requesting the driver be supported.