Haha, I guess I was more anxious than you to find out the exciting conclusion of hopefully that's the issueIt's on my list to get done today, at the bottom... got other business stuff that's more important. LIKE invoicing clients
Home AIO & ESXi/Dev
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Yea tell me about it, sold my workstation parts then spent 3 weeks down waiting on server upgrade since I was rotating that board into workstation.LOL, trust me I'm anxious too. I want to get this up and running, and get my other stuff sold got a lot of float going on at the moment
Now waiting on recovery software scanning my shattered raid array, 24 hours and we're at 50% so I'm trying to live vicariously here and want some good news
Yea, I've actually stayed put for last 3 years busy with other stuff, now the itch has come back with a vengeance and I'm just messing around a bit too much for my own goodIt seems to never end when we upgrade with deals
I retire @ year 2000 to guide my "almost high school dropped out" son , for next 4 years, I had not purchase one item from Newegg or other retailers. Recently, I checked my Newegg order history, year 2005 , I purchased exactly 2 items.
Here's my rule, fixed budget for this stuff every year so I have to think hard if I need it. Or if its replacing something I will sell the original to cover costs. This makes me very disciplined when it comes to resisting deals. Either buy what I need, or figure out a way to fund it
I have a bunch of fans salvaged from bad video cards etc for this exact purpose, never know when you're going to need to cool a chip set somewhere. Older CPU heatsinks and fans also good, I got a box of them. Sometimes if I can figure out a clip mount, super glue dabbed on 4 corners of the chip works well too
How did you attach the fan?
I have an LSI with a passive heatsink on my supermicro motherboard (X10SL7), and now that I'm using it to control some drives, it's getting awfully hot. My first thought was to use a large fan mounted on the case to get high CFM at low noise and then use some kind of reducer to direct higher speed air at the passive heatsink. I'm not sure if there are reducers available for that purpose though.
These chips don't need a ton of air, a smaller breeze over it is fine. If you want to mount dedicated fan, you can get some small wood screws at Home Depot and mount those small 30-40mm fans to the heatsink, that's what I did for the LSI 9260 I have
SuperMicro FTP Firmware:
Index of ftp://supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2208/
ftp://supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2208/Firmware%28not_for_X9DRL-7F%29/3.400.05-3175/
From 2014, the firmware I'm already running.
LSI Firmware:
MegaRAID SAS 9270-8i
From 2015. Anyone cross-flashed the onboard SuperMicro LS2208 to the LSI firmware?
Index of ftp://supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2208/
ftp://supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2208/Firmware%28not_for_X9DRL-7F%29/3.400.05-3175/
From 2014, the firmware I'm already running.
LSI Firmware:
MegaRAID SAS 9270-8i
From 2015. Anyone cross-flashed the onboard SuperMicro LS2208 to the LSI firmware?
I don't think Supermicro to LSI is really crossflashing as supermicro just brands the cards, there's no customization other than vendor ID from what I can tell. If you grab the same dated version from LSI as supermicro, run MD5 on both and if they match you know its the same thing.
When I flashed my SM SAS2LP-H8IR it was the LSI firmware and that's it. Onboard controllers on SM boards seems like they are just hardwired to the PCI-e lanes nothing special. My X8DTE has same BIOS as X8DT6 with onboard LSI and DT6 is missing a PCIe slot which is taken up by the controller
When I flashed my SM SAS2LP-H8IR it was the LSI firmware and that's it. Onboard controllers on SM boards seems like they are just hardwired to the PCI-e lanes nothing special. My X8DTE has same BIOS as X8DT6 with onboard LSI and DT6 is missing a PCIe slot which is taken up by the controller
Which fan do you like the best for that purpose?
In some ways I'd prefer attaching a better heatsink to it (if nothing else something with much taller and more peg-like fins), but I'd worry I might destroy the chip underneath while removing the factory default heatsink. I have no idea whether it's even removeable.
Good to know.
I'll report back.
FWIW - My fan is just "sitting" there right now. I'm planning to find some screws to put into the Heatsink fins just for pressure to hold the fan in place, I may also make something if I can't get it how I want it...
OR
I might throw a larger fan (120mm) above the LSI & other Chip near it to keep them booth cooler.
I'm also going to checkout the mod stores for a taller heat sink, should work much better.
I'll report back.
FWIW - My fan is just "sitting" there right now. I'm planning to find some screws to put into the Heatsink fins just for pressure to hold the fan in place, I may also make something if I can't get it how I want it...
OR
I might throw a larger fan (120mm) above the LSI & other Chip near it to keep them booth cooler.
I'm also going to checkout the mod stores for a taller heat sink, should work much better.
I just use whatever small fan I have on hand, mostly older SocketA or Slot 1 left overs. If there's some sort of clip or mounting bolts then its pretty easy to remove, otherwise be very careful as it may be attached with thermal epoxy and removal could damage chips
Ironically, all the heatsinks seem to have a mechanical mounting system, except for the one that's getting really hot!