jgreco
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Now thats exciting:
I am able to access the Controller BIOS from within the mainboard bios.
The picture below shows the current firmware version. if p16 == Version 16 an update is probably a good idea :)
It does? Where? I'm not sure what generated that summary -- I think you mean that the BIOS did. The output from "mprutil show adapter" at the UNIX shell on a LSI 3008 looks like
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# mprutil show adapter mpr0 Adapter: Board Name: LSI3008-IT Board Assembly: Chip Name: LSISAS3008 Chip Revision: ALL BIOS Revision: 0.00.00.00 Firmware Revision: 16.00.10.00 Integrated RAID: no SATA NCQ: ENABLED PCIe Width/Speed: x8 (8.0 GB/sec) IOC Speed: Full Temperature: 70 C
Looking at the "Firmware Revision" here, it has P16 firmware (good) subrev 16.00.10.00 (slightly bad); 16.00.12.00 is the latest available. There are some release notes around that clarify that this probably isn't a big deal in this specific case though.
-> Do i update only the firmware?
You can, if you choose.
-> if i need to flash bios, is it: mptsas3.rom (sasbios_rel) or mpt3x64.rom(uefibsd_rel\Signed) ?
Depends on whether your system is booting EFI or legacy BIOS. You can also omit the BIOS. I personally do not like that because I strongly prefer the ability to debug any disk issues outside the UNIX environment.
Does somebody know how the correct procedure looks like?
It's "mprutil flash update firmware <filename>" or "mprutil flash update bios <filename>", a two step process, if memory serves.