Hi everyone, new here...
I've been dabbling with this sort of thing for a few years now. When I got my first m1015, I flashed IT mode, and have been using it for years now. However, a long time ago, I noticed that the boot time is crazy long, like 30m or more. I know it has to do with the HBA or the discs but I couldn't find anything helpful on the web that would solve it. I keep checking regularly. But it's been working fine besides that so I haven't done anything.
A couple of months ago, I bought another m1015 on ebay, and the seller stated that he has IT mode with "boot services removed" because people don't like the slow boot times. So I think this is the answer to my problem. But now, I cannot find any discussion about boot services related to sas2flsh etc, or just other people talking about this, so I wanted to bring it up here.
So how do I remove boot services? On a site, I saw the switches for the sas2flsh program that had some boot services options, so I'm guessing that's it. What's the easiest way to do this? I'm hesitant because last time i tried flashing to IT mode, my computers were giving me very hard times with booting and UEFI and stuff like that, and I kept disconnecting devices, trying different motherboards to make it work finally. And I'm worried about taking about my production server.
Thanks!
Windows Server 2012R2, Xeon e3-1276v3
I've been dabbling with this sort of thing for a few years now. When I got my first m1015, I flashed IT mode, and have been using it for years now. However, a long time ago, I noticed that the boot time is crazy long, like 30m or more. I know it has to do with the HBA or the discs but I couldn't find anything helpful on the web that would solve it. I keep checking regularly. But it's been working fine besides that so I haven't done anything.
A couple of months ago, I bought another m1015 on ebay, and the seller stated that he has IT mode with "boot services removed" because people don't like the slow boot times. So I think this is the answer to my problem. But now, I cannot find any discussion about boot services related to sas2flsh etc, or just other people talking about this, so I wanted to bring it up here.
So how do I remove boot services? On a site, I saw the switches for the sas2flsh program that had some boot services options, so I'm guessing that's it. What's the easiest way to do this? I'm hesitant because last time i tried flashing to IT mode, my computers were giving me very hard times with booting and UEFI and stuff like that, and I kept disconnecting devices, trying different motherboards to make it work finally. And I'm worried about taking about my production server.
Thanks!
Windows Server 2012R2, Xeon e3-1276v3