SUPERMICRO X10SL7, flashing to IT Mode

[Bruce Wilfong]

Hello all,

I am currently running a SUPERMICRO X10SL7-F board, I haven't had any issues yet but have read in many cases where it is suggested to Flash the LSI 2308 to IT-mode, is this something I need to do? I am currently on 11.1-U5. I am running 8 drives on the SAS ports. I currently am using a USB jump drive for the OS but want to move to SSD since I fear the life-span of USB drives is much shorter. If this is something that I need to do, can you please direct me to the latest instructions on how to perform this?

Thanks

 

[Chris Moore]

but have read in many cases where it is suggested to Flash the LSI 2308 to IT-mode, is this something I need to do?

That is something that should have been done before you created your pool and started storing data. Depending on exactly how you made the system work to begin with, changing the SAS controller firmware at this point could render your data inaccessible.

Please provide the output of camcontrol devlist and also a zpool status but give those to us in code tags.

 

[Bruce Wilfong]

Code:

<ATA Hitachi HUA72303 A580>		at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,da0)		 
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68N 0A82>		at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass1,da1)		 
<ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 CC25>		at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass2,da2)		 
<ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68A 0A80>		at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass3,da3)		 
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68N 0A82>		at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (pass4,da4)		 
<ATA Hitachi HUS72403 A5F0>		at scbus0 target 7 lun 0 (pass5,da5)		 
<ATA WDC WD40EZRZ-00G 0A80>		at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass6,da6)		 
<ATA WDC WD40EZRZ-00G 0A80>		at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass7,da7)		 
<SanDisk Cruzer Glide 1.00>		at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (pass8,da8)

AND

Code:

root@freenas:~ # zpool status
  pool: freenas-boot
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:24:56 with 0 errors on Sat Jun  2 12:42:56 2018
config:

		NAME		STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
		freenas-boot  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  da8p2	 ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: zp1
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 04:42:24 with 0 errors on Fri Jun  1 07:42:25 2018
config:

		NAME											STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
		zp1											 ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  raidz1-0									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/0845bf03-f620-11e5-826e-20cf30014cfe  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/d9cb7b81-5320-11e7-af67-20cf30014cfe  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/1608c24b-5fde-11e8-b6f8-ac1f6b023aa4  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/8558ab4b-562a-11e7-af67-20cf30014cfe  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  raidz1-1									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/43f7b16e-aa66-11e7-b4c9-ac1f6b023aa4  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/44fa49bb-aa66-11e7-b4c9-ac1f6b023aa4  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/45fe4d63-aa66-11e7-b4c9-ac1f6b023aa4  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/46f52751-aa66-11e7-b4c9-ac1f6b023aa4  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

errors: No known data errors

 

[Chris Moore]

It looks like the configuration is such that you would be able to flash the firmware without compromising the pool.
Here is a link to the guide:

Detailed newcomers' guide to crossflashing LSI 9211 HBA and variants
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...o-crossflashing-lsi-9211-hba-and-variants.54/

 

[Bruce Wilfong]

Thank you

 

[Jailer]

No cross flash is needed, just an update to the firmware. I've use the attached document to flash mine a few times as updates have been needed. It's listed for an X9 board but the process is identical.