I'm in the middle of building / burning in a new all-in-one home NAS which includes a LSI SAS3008-based controller built into the motherboard (SuperMicro X10SRH-CF).
After reading https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...re-does-not-match-driver-cant-solve-it.43637/, I went ahead and installed the P12 IT firmware on the SAS3008 controller.
However, I've noticed that Avago appear to have (finally) released the P13 firmware earlier this month - it appears on http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9311-8i#downloads, the downloads page for their 9311-8i (SAS3008-based) controller.
This leads to two questions:
1) Has anyone tried the P13 IT firmware with FreeNAS yet?
2) For those of us with a HBA built into our motherboard, should we be waiting for the motherboard manufacturer to publish firmware updates themselves before we install them? Or is it safe to install firmware "intended" for add-on cards on to our motherboard-integrated controllers (e.g. in this case, intall the P13 IT firmware intended for the 9311-8i add-on card onto the SAS3008 controller integrated into my X10SRH-CF)?
Thanks!
After reading https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...re-does-not-match-driver-cant-solve-it.43637/, I went ahead and installed the P12 IT firmware on the SAS3008 controller.
However, I've noticed that Avago appear to have (finally) released the P13 firmware earlier this month - it appears on http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9311-8i#downloads, the downloads page for their 9311-8i (SAS3008-based) controller.
This leads to two questions:
1) Has anyone tried the P13 IT firmware with FreeNAS yet?
2) For those of us with a HBA built into our motherboard, should we be waiting for the motherboard manufacturer to publish firmware updates themselves before we install them? Or is it safe to install firmware "intended" for add-on cards on to our motherboard-integrated controllers (e.g. in this case, intall the P13 IT firmware intended for the 9311-8i add-on card onto the SAS3008 controller integrated into my X10SRH-CF)?
Thanks!