Could you share a copy of your biosI have a DRi and got my AOC-SLG3-2M2 to work.
The bios does not support booting from nvme out of the box (with 3.3).
I followed the nvme bios flash instructions on win-raid forums. You have to use the AMI bios flash tool and not the UEFI bios flash tool due to something weird with the supermicro bios.
After doing that, nvme is recognized in the bios with one issue that the drives show up as a generic name and you can't really differenciate between the two nvme drives within the bios (such as boot order etc, it just says something like UEFI boot drive or something)
I have legacy OProm mode on, not UEFI. Bifurcation had to be set on the slot it was in
I was able to install Freenas using legacy mode install and it boots off the nvmes
Hopefully this will help someone.
Can you share more information on this? I'm running a X9DRi-F motherboard trying to get the AOC-SLG3-2M2 working with dual intel 1TB nvme ssds. So far i have updated bios from 3.2a to 3.3 using the IPMI interface with no changes. I have tested bifurcation in slots 1 and 5 with no success, both only allowing me to see 1 of the ssds. Current using this for an unraid/media server. So i don't need to boot from the ssds, just want the nvme raid 0 to have 2TB of cache for the unraid server.I have a DRi and got my AOC-SLG3-2M2 to work.
The bios does not support booting from nvme out of the box (with 3.3).
I followed the nvme bios flash instructions on win-raid forums. You have to use the AMI bios flash tool and not the UEFI bios flash tool due to something weird with the supermicro bios.
After doing that, nvme is recognized in the bios with one issue that the drives show up as a generic name and you can't really differenciate between the two nvme drives within the bios (such as boot order etc, it just says something like UEFI boot drive or something)
I have legacy OProm mode on, not UEFI. Bifurcation had to be set on the slot it was in
I was able to install Freenas using legacy mode install and it boots off the nvmes
Hopefully this will help someone.
Sorry I just saw this now - I'm not sure I have a copy of my bios and I'm not sure how to download the bios on the server. I will look around to see if I have it.Could you share a copy of your bios
The stock bios doesn't work, you have to inject the nvme driver into the bios as it isn't included in the default bios.Can you share more information on this? I'm running a X9DRi-F motherboard trying to get the AOC-SLG3-2M2 working with dual intel 1TB nvme ssds. So far i have updated bios from 3.2a to 3.3 using the IPMI interface with no changes. I have tested bifurcation in slots 1 and 5 with no success, both only allowing me to see 1 of the ssds. Current using this for an unraid/media server. So i don't need to boot from the ssds, just want the nvme raid 0 to have 2TB of cache for the unraid server.
I've got a quadro p2000 in slot 6 and a SAS2 raid card attached to a backplane in slot 3
The stock bios doesn't work, you have to inject the nvme driver into the bios as it isn't included in the default bios.
Follow this thread [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS
When you get down to modding the bios, do not use UEFItool use the AMI tool. There is an issue with supermicro bios and the UEFItool.
Once you have your new bios installed, the nvme will show up as something generic like "Windows nvme device" or something like that. If you have two nvme devices (I have 2x evo 960's) it will show two entries with the same name, which kind of makes it a pain knowing which is which but it works.
Did you ever manage to get this to work? I have the same mobo, trying to make it work with ASUS Hyper M.2 card. Tested bifurcation in all slots, still seeing only 1 drive. Trying to figure out if it's a card problem and that maybe the AOC-SLG3-2M2 would actually work since they're both from SM. My IPMI firmware is 03.54 and BIOS is 3.3.Can you share more information on this? I'm running a X9DRi-F motherboard trying to get the AOC-SLG3-2M2 working with dual intel 1TB nvme ssds. So far i have updated bios from 3.2a to 3.3 using the IPMI interface with no changes. I have tested bifurcation in slots 1 and 5 with no success, both only allowing me to see 1 of the ssds. Current using this for an unraid/media server. So i don't need to boot from the ssds, just want the nvme raid 0 to have 2TB of cache for the unraid server.
I've got a quadro p2000 in slot 6 and a SAS2 raid card attached to a backplane in slot 3
I have X9DR3-F, and JEYI iHyper-M2X16 card, the bifurcation never works. This post says the board does not support bifurcation at all.Did you ever manage to get this to work? I have the same mobo, trying to make it work with ASUS Hyper M.2 card. Tested bifurcation in all slots, still seeing only 1 drive. Trying to figure out if it's a card problem and that maybe the AOC-SLG3-2M2 would actually work since they're both from SM. My IPMI firmware is 03.54 and BIOS is 3.3.
Yo, my dude, please share bios files they gave you, when I spoke with them, the guy just said "EOL can't help you". Checked their site now, they actually removed the page as well, so weird.I have X9DR3-F, and JEYI iHyper-M2X16 card, the bifurcation never works. This post says the board does not support bifurcation at all.
Update: I emailed Supermicro, they tell me that X9DR3-F 3.3 BIOS actually doesn't support PCIe bifurcation. However, they send me a beta BIOS built on Feb 2020 that supports PCIe bifurcation. I flashed it and it works fine.
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Yeah, Supermicro has been removing a lot of older EOL systems from their site recently. Drat!Yo, my dude, please share bios files they gave you, when I spoke with them, the guy just said "EOL can't help you". Checked their site now, they actually removed the page as well, so weird.
It seems they just removed the links to the older product detail page, but you can still get there by simply googling your motherboard model.Yeah, Supermicro has been removing a lot of older EOL systems from their site recently. Drat!
I own a system based on the X9DRi-LN4F+ motherboard, plus several other EOL models.
You can still download the most recent X9DRi/X9DR3 BIOS (v3.4) by browsing to the 'SuperStorage 6047R-E1R224N' support page here, and selecting the BIOS link. Don't know how long it will be available...
Ln4f doesn't need this bios, 3.3 confirmed working. If you want nvme boot there are modded bios in other threadsFrom IPMI I'm getting board Mismatch on x9DRi-LN4F+ with the NVME rom. So I downloaded the new 3.4 bios for the x9Dri-LN4F+ and did the same injection you did and while I won't know about the support for a couple of days the bios seemed to flash fine.