It's not working for me. I get to the command line and I enter in "smc3008t" and I get is "Bad command of filename"Success updating the 3008 to IT mode.
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Steps:
0. Find the SAS ID (I found mine on a sticker on the motherboard (starts with SAS: 50003048) - write down the last nine characters.
1. Download the 3008_FW_PH6_091714.zip file and extract IT folder to a USB drive
2. Insert USB drive into server and power on
3. Press F11 to choose boot menu
4. Boot into EFI Shell
5. change to the USB device (type 'fs0: or type 'map' for a listing)
6. cd to IT/UEFI folder
7. run 'SMC3000T'
8. when prompted, enter the 9 characters from step 0. It's a quick timeout, and I finally tried lowercase hex which worked (the first couple attempts failed).
That's what I thought happened too.That's weird. I pasted the exact link (in fact the text is correct). I think the forum SW stripped it.
[root@freenas] ~# dmesg | grep mp mpr0: <LSI SAS3008> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xfb200000-0xfb20ffff irq 26 at device 0.0 on pci1 mpr0: IOCFacts : mpr0: Firmware: 06.00.00.00, Driver: 05.255.05.00-fbsd mpr0: IOCCapabilities: 7a85c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,MSIXIndex,HostDisc>
[root@freenas] ~# dmesg | grep mp mpr0: <LSI SAS3008> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xfb200000-0xfb20ffff irq 26 at device 0.0 on pci1 mpr0: IOCFacts : mpr0: Firmware: 05.00.00.00, Driver: 05.255.05.00-fbsd mpr0: IOCCapabilities: 7a85c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,MSIXIndex,HostDisc>
If I didn't fully populate, SM sent me a handy guide for installing RAM: http://www.supermicro.com/QuickRefs/superserver/2U/QRG-1607.pdf
I know, takes all the fun out of it. :)
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I'm still testing my setup before going to production, so if you can let me know what tests you'd like to see on what config, I'll run them and post the results.
I'm willing to take some out for testing. lmk if you are interested. I still have to run my memory tests, so this could be a good stress test. :)
I've tried everything from just putting those files on an empty USB drive to formatting a drive with Rufus to make it bootable. I used EFI and the Dos comand and nothing. I can't seem to get this to upgrade.tsk, tsk. you aren't in the EFI shell. You are in DOS. Either choose the EFI shell, and use the .nsh file, or copy the files from the DOS folder to your USB and try the .bat file.
And you might want to use the PH5 firmware, since I think that is what the FreeBSD is using. I'm going to try to downgrade.
I see this in dmesg:
Code:[root@freenas] ~# dmesg | grep mp mpr0: <LSI SAS3008> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xfb200000-0xfb20ffff irq 26 at device 0.0 on pci1 mpr0: IOCFacts : mpr0: Firmware: 06.00.00.00, Driver: 05.255.05.00-fbsd mpr0: IOCCapabilities: 7a85c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,MSIXIndex,HostDisc>
Wow. That's a beauty.:)
Slots are all full with identical sticks, so that should be OK.
Hopefully this is better:
Code:[root@freenas] ~# dmesg | grep mp mpr0: <LSI SAS3008> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xfb200000-0xfb20ffff irq 26 at device 0.0 on pci1 mpr0: IOCFacts : mpr0: Firmware: 05.00.00.00, Driver: 05.255.05.00-fbsd mpr0: IOCCapabilities: 7a85c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,MSIXIndex,HostDisc>
PS - This is how my MB came cabled to the SuperMicro backplane. The white wires go from the MB to the Backplane, and the blue ones go from the backplane to 2 external ports on the rear for expansion.
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So the Tech was right. Just leave my (4) 16GB sticks in A1. A2, B1,B2If I didn't fully populate, SM sent me a handy guide for installing RAM: http://www.supermicro.com/QuickRefs/superserver/2U/QRG-1607.pdf
I know, takes all the fun out of it. :)
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I guess I'll leave it the way it is.Interesting that the chart matches exactly what the tech told AltecBX. Pretty much slam em in from left to right. Interesting change even from the x10sra board. They need to stick that page in the mobo manual.
Depasseq, how did the PH6 differ from the PH5?
Is FreeNAS working to use PH6?
What's the difference in both drivers?
I agree, it's curious that the interleaving would use two different patterns between the X10SRA and X10SRH 2011R3 boards, and also depart from all the previous socket 2011 interleaving patterns. It doesn't really make sense to me, and it looks as if the manual for the X10SRH board is incomplete. It states " Populating these DIMM modules with a pair of memory modules of the same type and same size will result in interleaved memory, which will improve memory performance. Please refer to the table below:" but there is no table below.I wonder who wrote that...
I'm not going to say they're wrong, but it's very weird, since it restricts operation to dual-channel mode instead of quad-channel mode. The channels can't possibly go to both sides, since that would make for an insanely complicated memory trace layout. So, that leaves the question of whether there's something weird going on.
If anyone is using these as a tinkering project (yeah, right, that's likely at these prices...) and is interested in doing science, I would appreciate feedback on the "traditional" DIMM placement of "fill all channels first, then go back, rinse and repeat".
I'm lost with that one. How can I show you?I didn't notice any difference between PH5 and 6 (nor IT and IR for that matter).
The driver in FreeNAS looks like v5 and everything I read highly suggested keeping the driver and firmware versions the same.
what does 'dmesg | grep mpr' report?
Here's Ubontu showing 10 drives.Post the output of 'dmesg' in code tags. You could also hit the debug button and post the file.
If I were troubleshooting I'd isolate the controller and backplane and validate proper function. For me that would be windows, Linux, or bsd. I'd also skip the beta until things were proven. Could be a gui glitch or something in the freenas driver, but could also be expander controller related. The bios showing the drives is great but only step one.