LSI 9300-16i $129 obo
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Don't think so. There are no options. You'll have to use the cli to remove the bios.
That's awesome. So should just work for unRAID, once I update firmware.
Thanks for posting the link to the firmware, in my case I had to use the sas3flash.efi after booting into an UEFI shell
just leaving this here in case anyone runs into issues
So I bought a 9300-16i on eBay for $85, and I called Broadcom/LSI to verify the serial number, which was valid.
I was a little nervous about the power draw so I mounted a NF-F12 iPPC running at ~2000 rpm, and I'm seeing
ROC temperature(Degree Celsius) = 39
ROC temperature(Degree Celsius) = 36
at 65F/18C ambient with 8 drives plugged in to one of the two controllers (I'm assuming it's the hotter one).
Flashed the firmware from TrueNAS above and it's running pretty smoothly.
I was a little nervous about the power draw so I mounted a NF-F12 iPPC running at ~2000 rpm, and I'm seeing
ROC temperature(Degree Celsius) = 39
ROC temperature(Degree Celsius) = 36
at 65F/18C ambient with 8 drives plugged in to one of the two controllers (I'm assuming it's the hotter one).
Flashed the firmware from TrueNAS above and it's running pretty smoothly.
For reference, the SAS3108 on a Supermicro X10 motherboard in a 2U chassis is running at 51C and a SAS3008 on a Supermicro AOC in a 2U chassis is running at 66C (ambient ~71F/22C)
That's very interesting.
It's highly uncommon for firmwares like this to be special made together with an open source project, and not to be available on the hardware manufacturers own website.
I have not seen any disconnect issues with mine with sata drives under Linux. I wonder if it is a specific FreeBSD issue it addresses.
Thanks for the heads up either way. This is good to know!
Sounds like you've never searched Broadcom / Avago website for drivers, LOL.
Lol, I am well aware how difficult it is to find drivers on their site, just look at my post earlier in this thread
It's just that usually difficult to find or not, they are at least there.
This appears to be a special firmware solely distributed by the TrueNAS project, which is highly unusual.
I am so utterly disgusted with their site that I actually look for firmware on other sites. It's absolutely ridiculous that files are so hard to find. And search is totally useless. Yea, I hope somebody at Broadcom reads this.Lol, I am well aware how difficult it is to find drivers on their site, just look at my post earlier in this thread
It's just that usually difficult to find or not, they are at least there.
This appears to be a special firmware solely distributed by the TrueNAS project, which is highly unusual.
I'm with you, but at the same time I have an inherent distrust of files not distributed on their official websites. There is a lot of malware out there. An open source project like FreeNAS as is one of the few 3rd parties I'd actually trust.I am so utterly disgusted with their site that I actually look for firmware on other sites. It's absolutely ridiculous that files are so hard to find. And search is totally useless. Yea, I hope somebody at Broadcom reads this.
When I am forced to search the Broadcoms site and others with similar problems for drivers and firmware I usually use Google with the "site:broadcom.com" filter. It's usually more successful than using their actual on site search or navigation.
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There are a couple of listings for $75 now. I offered one of them $65, we will see. I don't need it, but having a backup seems reasonable to me.
I bought one of the $75 ones from this listing to replace a 9212-4i4e and I'm pretty sure I got a brand new card. I had the same issue as @mattlach disabling Secure Boot on an Asus board (X99 in my case) and ended up creating a quick VM with UEFI "firmware", passing through the two PCIe devices, and booting up an EFI shell following the directions here (just the first part) so I could use sas3flash.efi to erase the boot areas and flash the latest firmware.
It's a neat card. The two controllers get their own IOMMU groups, and I have one passed through to my always-on Windows VM. This lets me divvy up the hot-swap bays in my system between Linux and Windows so I have some flexibility when doing data recovery, disk imaging, etc. The controllers are reset-able so I can shut down Windows and it comes right back in Linux. (The one caveat is that you can't run sas3flash from Linux when one of the two controllers is passed through... hard crash and corrupt firmware.)
I went back into the system this morning to swap out another card and just about burned the tips of my fingers off. I suppose the supplemental PCIe power input on the card should have raised more red flags! That's with a 200mm fan blowing cool air down on it, so I might need to get something smaller with more directed airflow to keep it cooler. I wish Broadcom would give us better power management control over these things... with each generation it seems to become more and more of an issue.
lspci -tv
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| +-02.0-[04-08]----00.0-[05-08]--+-00.0-[06]----00.0 Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3
| | +-08.0-[07]--
| | \-09.0-[08]----00.0 Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3
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4:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:87
24] (rev ca)
Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724]
05:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
05:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
06:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS 9300-16i [1000:3130]
Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
Kernel modules: mpt3sas
08:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS 9300-16i [1000:3130]
Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
Kernel modules: mpt3sas
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IOMMU Group 54:
04:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
IOMMU Group 55:
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
IOMMU Group 56:
05:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
IOMMU Group 57:
05:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8724 24-Lane, 6-Port PCI Express Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Switch, 19 x 19mm FCBGA [10b5:8724] (rev ca)
IOMMU Group 58:
06:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
IOMMU Group 59:
08:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
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Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
Version 17.00.00.00 (2018.04.02)
Copyright 2008-2018 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.
Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3008(C0)
Num Ctlr FW Ver NVDATA x86-BIOS PCI Addr
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0 SAS3008(C0) 16.00.10.00 0e.01.00.03 No Image 00:06:00:00
1 SAS3008(C0) 16.00.10.00 0e.01.00.03 No Image 00:08:00:00
Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
Exiting SAS3Flash.
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Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
Version 17.00.00.00 (2018.04.02)
Copyright 2008-2018 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.
Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3008(C0)
Controller Number : 0
Controller : SAS3008(C0)
PCI Address : 00:08:00:00
SAS Address : 500062b-2-0026-c440
NVDATA Version (Default) : 0e.01.00.03
NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 0e.01.00.03
Firmware Product ID : 0x2221 (IT)
Firmware Version : 16.00.10.00
NVDATA Vendor : LSI
NVDATA Product ID : SAS9300-16i
BIOS Version : N/A
UEFI BSD Version : N/A
FCODE Version : N/A
Board Name : SAS9300-16i
Board Assembly : 03-25600-01B
Board Tracer Number : SP52410893
Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
Exiting SAS3Flash.Attachments
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So, will this work in dos using the SAS3FLSH utility? Any risk in removing the bios? Can it be reinstalled if needed?
Hi, I seem to be getting 'Write Errors' on a bunch of my HDDs that are attached to the 9300-16i. This happens under heavy load. The drives themselves seem fine. The SSDs that are on a separate RAID group do not have these issues. Is it a case of a defective 9300-16i or do you think I need to add the addition pciex power? It's plugged into a pciEx 16 so I figured that would have enough power. It also has a 92mm fan so it's nice and cool. I have a Corsair Rm750x, which is modular. Which power output should I use to provide the extra power if that is indeed the issue?
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