What I am trying to determine is if P20 firmware is required for HBA adapter inside Truenas Scale. I have an HP DL380e Gen8 that, I got for Christmas, with 14 total bays, perfect for storage!!! HP is ....well... particular about the devices you attach.
I have another LSI with firmware P20 in it (a 9205-8i if I recall) and when I used it in place of the HP P420i that came with the server, the fans run at a constant 58% , which is quite audible. So I purchased an HP H220 off eBay (which turns out be the 2308 version 9207-8i). It was already flashed for IT Mode, and when I used it, the fans dropped to the low 30%, which is nice. The problem (maybe) was that that card had version P15 in it (which is the most recent version from HP directly). Reading thru posts and forums, the consensus was Trueneas required P20. But that was for Freenas/TrueNAS Core. I finally found an older version of sas2flash utility to update the firmware, but after updating it to P20, the fans are back to near 60% because the card isn't recognized as an HP flavor anymore!
So my question is , for Truenas Scale, will version P20 be required (thus having to deal with the louder fans) or will it not care as much and P15 be just fine? I tried looking thru the Truenas Scale forum, but my search didn't result in anything.
Thanks for any help!
I have another LSI with firmware P20 in it (a 9205-8i if I recall) and when I used it in place of the HP P420i that came with the server, the fans run at a constant 58% , which is quite audible. So I purchased an HP H220 off eBay (which turns out be the 2308 version 9207-8i). It was already flashed for IT Mode, and when I used it, the fans dropped to the low 30%, which is nice. The problem (maybe) was that that card had version P15 in it (which is the most recent version from HP directly). Reading thru posts and forums, the consensus was Trueneas required P20. But that was for Freenas/TrueNAS Core. I finally found an older version of sas2flash utility to update the firmware, but after updating it to P20, the fans are back to near 60% because the card isn't recognized as an HP flavor anymore!
So my question is , for Truenas Scale, will version P20 be required (thus having to deal with the louder fans) or will it not care as much and P15 be just fine? I tried looking thru the Truenas Scale forum, but my search didn't result in anything.
Thanks for any help!