Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page

[acquacow]

I have an HP 4.0.2 firmware on my fileserver...I don't see the driver, but HP probably has it on their site.

Edit: Software Details | HPE Support Center

 

[acquacow]

@acquacow - How do you generally interpret the output of "fio-status.exe -a" that Lev posted? I am trying to understand what the actual device name is based on the output.

1. Is it an adapter type called ioMono?
2. But then it says the device is actually called ioScale3 by Fusion-io
3. Is ioScale3 different from another product say...io3 Flash Adapter?(I got this flash adapter name from a random driver file that I have saved for Windows)
4. What are these naming conventions?! I am so confused

1. Is it an adapter type called ioMono?
Yes, if it's not a duo with dual memory modules, then it is a Mono.

2. But then it says the device is actually called ioScale3 by Fusion-io
iodrive/ioscale are the same hardware, just different user-adjustable overprovisioning from the factory.

3. Is ioScale3 different from another product say...io3 Flash Adapter?(I got this flash adapter name from a random driver file that I have saved for Windows)
Nope, these are all the same.

4. What are these naming conventions?! I am so confused
Just different marketing/development things leftover from when we had devices with multiple memory modules on them. None apply to the SX/PX 300/350 line, everything is a "mono"

Interesting that this card is a green PCB... that's probably a pre-production engineering sample, which would explain the firmware issues. You need to get that on 4.0.2 and then you should be able to upgrade it directly to current (according to the docs).

I'm not sure we had windows support in 4.0, I think that was linux only initially, so you might need to use an older CentOS liveCD to get the job done.

-- Dave

 

[warlockedyou]

Now I am thinking of upgrading my 1.2TB FusionIO with something bigger. Any ideas where I should start my research?

 

[acquacow]

Now I am thinking of upgrading my 1.2TB FusionIO with something bigger. Any ideas where I should start my research?

The 3.2 and 6.4TB SX350s are getting cheap. I'm slowly collecting 3.2s that I find deals on.

I have a dead one here as well that another member sent me that I poke at every now and then and see if I can revive. I'm currently waiting on JTAG info from an old coworker so that I can try to push an FPGA image to it.

 

[tx12]

I'm currently waiting on JTAG info from an old coworker so that I can try to push an FPGA image to it.

I can provide reversed JTAG pinout if you need it.
Any chances to get complete schematics / pcb cad files for these cards?

BTW, support.fusionio dot com and fusionio dot com addresses are currently not resolvable. This effectively makes all original support files and drivers off-line.

 

[acquacow]

I can provide reversed JTAG pinout if you need it.
Any chances to get complete schematics / pcb cad files for these cards?

BTW, support.fusionio dot com and fusionio dot com addresses are currently not resolvable. This effectively makes all original support files and drivers off-line.

All the drivers from the link.fusionio.com and link.sandisk.com sites are now here: Home

 

[tx12]

All the drivers from the link.fusionio.com and link.sandisk.com sites are now here: Home

All these resources use underlying connection to support.fusionio.com which is currently unresolvable

 

[acquacow]

All these resources use underlying connection to support.fusionio.com which is currently unresolvable

Hah, I just clicked thru it all and I see what you mean. I didn't realize they just used an iframe to load content off of support.fusionio.com, lol!

Well, that sucks...maybe they will fix it.

On the other hand, it's been over 5 years since WD bought SanDisk and EOL'd the ioDrives... they may have finally passed that 5-year paid support from all customers and just finally pulled the plug.

 

[i386]

just finally pulled the plug

And the iodrives are still running

 

[mimentum]

I've been following this thread. I have a copy of all the windows drivers for the Fusion IO Drive II here if anyone needs them (hosted on Mega).
I've also been wondering if it is possible to load one of these drives up into a QNAP NAS and take advantage of Qteir/SSD caching. But I feel like this would be outside of my skill set (not a coder).

I presume these Linux drivers on GitHub would need to be compiled somehow. Again outside of my abilities.

Also, I am unable to download anything from here: https://link.westerndigital.com/enterprisesupport/software-download.html

 

[i386]

Also, I am unable to download anything from here: https://link.westerndigital.com/enterprisesupport/software-download.html

Did you wait 15-25 seconds untils a dice (or something like a dice) animation appears? After that the download button works for me.

 

[tx12]

Hah, I just clicked thru it all and I see what you mean. I didn't realize they just used an iframe to load content off of support.fusionio.com, lol!

Well, that sucks...maybe they will fix it.

Looks like it's back!

 

[acquacow]

I'll try to remember this week to look around and see if there are any new versions of things for me to archive.

 

[mimentum]

Did you wait 15-25 seconds untils a dice (or something like a dice) animation appears? After that the download button works for me.

Yes, Mega has this weird way of letting you download files.

 

[mimentum]

As @tx12 states the site is back up, best to access from Edge, it wouldn't load properly on Chrome for me.

 

[miha_]

How or with what program can you unfip firmware.fff file, to change vender ID for flashing ?

 

[mimentum]

Well it turns out that WDC will block you from mass downloading all the drivers damn download limits ha

 

[acquacow]

How or with what program can you unfip firmware.fff file, to change vender ID for flashing ?

Any unzip program.

 

[miha_]

I see, I had to rename .fff to.zip so that the program unzips

I would also need help, with how to write the line/type bin for my card // if anyone can help me with this one

Adapter: Single Controller Adapter
Fusion-io ioDrive2 785GB MLC, Product Number:69RV8, SN:US069RV87605134C0011
ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:FY3TT
External Power Override: ON
External Power: NOT connected
PCIe Bus voltage: avg 11.82V
PCIe Bus current: avg 1.16A
PCIe Bus power: avg 9.15W
PCIe Power limit threshold: 74.75W
PCIe slot available power: unavailable
Connected ioMemory modules:
fct1: Product Number:69RV8, SN:1308D120D

fct1 Attached
ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, Product Number:69RV8, SN:1308D120D
ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:FY3TT
SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.32.0, Boot Version: 0.0.9.1
Located in slot 0 Center of ioDrive2 Adapter Controller SN:1308D120D
Powerloss protection: protected
PCI:05:00.0
Vendor:1aed, Device:2001, Sub vendor:1028, Sub device:1f6f
Firmware v7.1.15, rev 110356 Public
785.00 GBytes device size
Format: v500, 1533203125 sectors of 512 bytes
PCIe slot available power: 75.00W
PCIe negotiated link: 4 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 2000.00 MBytes/sec total
Internal temperature: 33.47 degC, max 38.39 degC
Internal voltage: avg 1.02V, max 1.02V
Aux voltage: avg 2.49V, max 2.49V
Reserve space status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00%
Active media: 100.00%
Rated PBW: 11.00 PB, 96.64% remaining
Lifetime data volumes:
Physical bytes written: 369,348,764,910,776
Physical bytes read : 394,532,886,608,640
RAM usage:
Current: 446,769,920 bytes
Peak : 491,456,640 bytes
Contained VSUs:
fct1: ID:0, UUID:b7ead0ef-6500-5346-ba3a-90ea75a9844d

fct1 State: Online, Type: block device
ID:0, UUID:b7ead0ef-6500-5346-ba3a-90ea75a9844d
785.00 GBytes device size
Format: 1533203125 sectors of 512 bytes

 

[gb00s]

If I remember correctly it should be like:

fio-update-iodrive /folder-of-firmware/xyz_*.fff

Of course, the drive has to be detached before the upgrade via

fio-detach /dev/fctXYZ

You can also test (pretend the upgrade) for any error messages before the upgrade via

fio-update-iodrive -p /folder-of-firmware/xyz_*.fff