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That's a 2U server as well. However, by eschewing the normal ATX form factor for the mainboard and using a riser instead, four full height (and full length!) slots are fit into it along the left side of the chassis, plus somewhere from one to three more half height slots in the middle (depending on PCIe lane availability and possibly positioning of CPUs etc; the one in that picture looks like it can't handle any half heights to me due to the CPU) If you have multiple cards then select the appropriate one using the appropriate option (e.g. "-c ") !! Foxconn Mini ITX board, Intel Atom D520 Hyperthreaded DualCore 1.66ghz 2c4t. 4GB DDR2-800 RAM, LAN=Realtek 8168 and WAN=Realtek 8169. Does about 700Mb LAN and 200Mb WAN. I came across numerous errors as I tried different tutorials, the biggest one was gaining access to EFI shell. I tried Rufus method, I tried simply formatting the drive to FAT partition and creating /boot/efi/….nothing worked. When something worked, I got this error. “ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting the program.” Once the installation is complete, cd to EFI directory of the USB drive. Then create a folder called ‘tools’ # mkdir tools
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As Highpoint's cards use Marvell controllers and as I absolutely wanted to avoid them (I had all kind of problems with those - data lost and/or the whole array of disks going offline when just 1 had a problem) I was forced to look at those other "weird" cards that have those "SFF"-connectors I never heard about. The cheapest cards of LSI were the 9211-4i and the 9211-8i - the forums described them both as being reliable. I followed the procedure above to create a bootable flash drive and while it would show up in the server's boot menu, it would NOT boot for some reason. I noticed that these servers have a built in EFI shell, so I booted to that and was able to follow the procedure from step 13 on using the files I had copied over to the flash drive ( map -b to show a list of attached drives, fs1: (or whatever number) to use the drive, and so on). But (important): I will be able to flash this card to become the community favorite card LSI 9211-8i (with version P20 - IT mode) to be used in FreeNAS 9.3.1?If you have seen any recommendations for the LSI 9211-8i HBA card, you may have seen the recommendation to have the card be in “IT mode” when the HBA card is used for applications like Unraid, FreeNAS or ZFS. So this turbulent history with these HBA card designs manufactured by multiple companies explains why you might see the same card model produced by LSI, Avago, Fujitsu etc. if you are searching for them online. But since all of these cards are using the same underlying design they are in fact identical cards regardless of the manufacturer. ESXi Host 1: SuperMicro X9SRL-F, E5-2620v2, 96GB ECC RAM | VMs: DNS/DHCP, Stash, OpenSSL CA, PS Jumpbox, Splunk, Nagios, about 20 more. All answered here: https://www.ixsystems.com/community...-lsi-9211-9300-9305-9311-hba-and-variants.54/ Looking for a better controller I’ve learned the popular LSI 9211-8i, which is optimal for my setup as well (8xHDD). The only disadvantage of the card is the IR firmware, which shall be overwritten at home by the IT version. People out there claimed with a lot of frustration attempting to overwrite the firmware. My experience has confirmed this and after a week of try-and-error, ending in success I've thought to share my experience.
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I thought all i needed was to crossflash it and move on but reading some posts seems like I need to upgrade to P16 firmware to make Freenas happy. Couldnt find a detailed post on this. I used this guide for the most part http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ and havent installed Freenas as of yet. Thx Sovking, I managed to flash the H200 controller with IT but I'm not able to boot the server. I get the follwing message. In some cases (especially leasing), you might not even be ABLE to sell the hardware, because strictly speaking it isn't yours. So in the model where you go and lease the servers and then buy them for a dollar at the end of the lease, you actually HAVE to hold on to the cards, because selling the leasing company's cards would be theft. You should see the list of the drives. In my case ‘fs0’ was the USB drive where needed firmware was stored; mount this directory: Shell> mount fs0 Pool0 = 3x2TB RAIDZ-1 (mixed 2 Seagate, 1 Hitachi), Pool1 = 4TBx3 RAIDZ-1 (Seagate ST4000DM000-1F2168)
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When using the combo of LSI SAS 9211-8i —> HP SAS Expander —> Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drives, the Hitachi drives will only connect at SATA 150 speeds. Drives will connect at SATA 600 when directly connected to the HBA. You need the absolute latest firmware (mid-June, version 10, I believe) to enable proper communication between the 9211-8i and the HP SAS Expander.
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Take the time to do proper burn in testing of your machine, and "possibly put data at risk" becomes a low risk - even with a "fake" card.I need hotplug/hotswap to work. Hopefully upgrading firmware will solve it. Any other idea? I don't want to fix whats not broken, if I can just run a command to detect them. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives... I actually was wrong about what model it was, so I probably would have messed it up. Seems like its an IBM M1015 already crossflashed... CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 7700X | GPU | ASUS TUF RTX3080 | PSU | Corsair RM850i | RAM 2x16GB X5 6000Mhz CL32 MOTHERBOARD | Asus TUF Gaming X670E-PLUS WIFI When ran through the HP SAS i was led to belive it would be a ghost and the drives would transpire through right on the LSI card. The HP card lights up all over, ive tried it in various 8x slots.. to no avail. And if im not mistaken, all it really needs from the PCIe is power.
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The card in the current IR-mode can take up an insane amount of time to start (in my case ~4 minutes in IR-mode, later in IT-mode it takes ~20 seconds), so don't even start thinking that your PC/server is hanging if you keep staring at the "Avago" boot prompt of the card for less than 5 minutes (I thought so and put it into a second PC getting the same result). For a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I determined sas2flash P20 has 1 additional important sounding option, than P16 (as was in Freenas): "-sbr" however I did not even need to use it. It seemed to detect that it needed to run this option itself. And I think if I flash the new firmware over top, and just leave off the -b BIOS or UEFI part, it will remove the BIOS, and I can skip BIOS detection.Megarec.exe would execute, but all attempts at accessing the card hung, no matter the command, so I was unable to -readsbr, or -cleanflash
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