J5040-ITX with PCIe SATA Controller Problem

Hi everyone

I just bought a J5040-ITX motherboard to upgrade my existing NAS system. As on the old motherboard, I wanted to run Ubuntu from a SATA SSD and connect 4 SATA data HDDs in Software RAID 5. Since the motherboard has only four SATA ports, I added a additional PCI Express SATA Controller (Delock 90392, uses an Asmedia ASM1061R chip). I chose this controller since the board already incorporates a ASM1061 SATA controller.

I connected the SSD to the internal SATA3_1 port and the first two data HDDs to the internal SATA3_A1 and SATA3_A2 ports. The SSD and the two HDDs are recognized and show up in the BIOS and also in Ubuntu.

The other two HDDs are connected to the PCIe SATA controller. Now, the SATA controller does not seem to be recognized in the BIOS. The two HDDs do not show up in the BIOS. In Ubuntu, I also do not see the two HDDs and I do not get the /dev/sd*. However, the in the "lspci" output the controller is listed.

- Has anyone successfully used such a setup with an additional PCIe SATA controller?
- Should the PCIe SATA controller and the two HDDs show up in the BIOS?
- Any tip on what I am missing?

I would appreciate any help.

Thx, blue

UPDATE:

After testing a bit more, I found out that controller and mainboard are actually working well, although the SATA ports of the controller still don't show up in BIOS. It turned out that the (new) HDD I was trying to connect was broken

Sorry I couldn't help with your actual problem.