Oh, boy!
It's been a while (and a great deal of learning) since I felt the need to wade into these forums. The last time I did, I learned very quickly that I should just shut up and let proper hardware configurations take my money.
Joking aside, I have now bumped into this issue. I recently installed a
Supermicro 6048R-E1CR24L which runs an LSI / Avago / Broadcom 3008 onboard controller. Everything appears to be working nicely, but the FreeNAS Alert panel is informing me that my firmware is version 10, which does not align with the driver which is version 9.
As
@depasseg and others mentioned on the first page of this thread, the conundrum comes because Avago (and subsequently Supermicro, and others) decided to *literally* skip version 9.x firmware. There is none, at least in so far as I've been able to determine.
There may, however, be a version 10.x driver for FreeBSD, assuming "PH10-11.00" is is. Looking at Supermicro's FTP, I'm confused as to the naming convention of these folders, and I'm also confused as to whether we should be considering the contents of the "FreeBSD" folder or the "UEFI" folder under the "Driver" header.
Long story short, I would very much like for my system to be properly configured. I have read where
@Daurtanyn and
@depasseg have installed related firmware from another controller, but I am hesitant to do the same. But now that some time has passed, perhaps I could coerce one of them (or both of them) to sound off as to the viability of that setup.
I haven't lost any data, and everything is backed up, so I am not (yet) concerned about the firmware / driver mismatch, but I do find it odd that my firmware is newer than the newest driver in use by FreeNAS.
Any more thoughts on the matter would be appreciated!