E35M1-I Deluxe BIOS update: Got a test bios from ASUS today and applied it right away. (Amazing fast)
The test BIOS has version 0090 so doesn't follow the normal release numbers. It (or an improved version of it) should become public available soon. If anyone should need it for the same issues as mine, I'll pass it along. If your board works as it is, there is no point in it. There are no direct improvements besides compatibility in this version and beta firmwares on bios are dangerous. Keep in mind, they needed my exact serial etc to send me this version.
As already hinted, yes this bios update fixed the issues with the Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9. Bios set to automatic detection of everything, and it finds and sets the right speed and volt (as on the label and recommended) for the modules.
Besides that, i can report that it now also shows my ASrock SATA3 Card's boot message, it didn't do that before, however the driver for this card don't seem to included (yet).
So, Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 compatible with Beta-BIOS v.0090, not with v.0301 or v.0902 or v.1001
Running at 1066MHz and 1.59v (auto detected)
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Little update on the BIOS and RAM issues with Corsair memory. Mason (The friendly ASUS support guy that has been helping me) hasn't had luck contacting the HQ yet as peoples vacations interfere atm.. However I still got a little news.
Official BIOS version 1202 is a fix for some overclocking issues and doesn't contain the memory fixes. So there is no official BIOS yet to fix this. However you can contact
Mason at ROG in case you have the same problem.
I can also inform that the Corsair 2x2G Corsair XMS3 DDR3 memory (TW3X4G1333C9A) has the same problem, but that can also be fixed with same test BIOS version 0090.
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Speed tests seem off, haven't done any config except creating the pools in the GUI...
raidz dd test:
Code:
freenas# zpool status
pool: jcube1
state: ONLINE
scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Jun 21 20:37:25 2011
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
jcube1 ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/607b2ca1-9c35-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/60edda77-9c35-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/615e42e5-9c35-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/61d586ed-9c35-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
freenas# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/jcube1/ddtest bs=1024k count=20000
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes transferred in 292.667245 secs (71656533 bytes/sec)
freenas# dd of=/dev/zero if=/mnt/jcube1/ddtest bs=1024k count=20000
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes transferred in 93.128951 secs (225187976 bytes/sec)
raidz2 dd test:
Code:
freenas# zpool status
pool: jcube1
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
jcube1 ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/d8a9ad20-9c36-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/d972188f-9c36-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/d9e7677d-9c36-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/da60298e-9c36-11e0-a4e3-485d605e63b8 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
freenas# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/jcube1/ddtest bs=1024k count=20000
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes transferred in 348.805016 secs (60123906 bytes/sec)
freenas# dd of=/dev/zero if=/mnt/jcube1/ddtest bs=1024k count=20000
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes transferred in 123.269816 secs (170126968 bytes/sec)
freenas# zpool set cachefile=/data/zfs/zpool.cache jcube1
freenas# zdb -U /data/zfs/zpool.cache | grep ashift
ashift=12