NVMe boot with SuperMicro X9DA7 & X9DRi-F
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Just as a follow up, it worked well. Be sure to not carry over your settings though.
@trinitrond1 - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM.
@swznd - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM.
@swznd - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM.
a bit delayed reply to old comment here.. :
). Tested through AS SSD and ATTO benchmark (could share results).
I know it´s a bit funny setup and results, especially on ancient C2SBA+ II. with Core2Quad Q9550s (socket 775 CPU) I think such bad speed results are due to not-so-good ASMedia bifurcation chip, due to its PCIe x4 limit and of course bottlenecked by CPU and MB chipset. But still it should give you some imagination towards running NWMe M.2 SSD disks on PCIe cards on old systems...
For me the strange is another situation. I always check CPU utilisation during read and write speed on NWMe 970 Evo Plus. And even on ancient C2SBA+ II and even under Win7x64SP1, the % CPU utilisation of C2Q was still relatively low. So someone should presume, that if CPU is still NOT fully loaded, than why Axagon PCEM2-ND with 970 Evo Plus is not much faster ? chipset speed limitation etc. ?
Unfortunately It´s NOT so strange low speed for me.. I´ve got 2 old Supermicro board - X9SRH-7F (C602 chipset) and very old C2SBA+ II. (G33 chipset). I tested them on low-cost Axagon PCEM2-ND (https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...furcation.31172/page-3#lg=post-353379&slide=0) , which is x8 electrically but due to limitation of its ASMedia self-bifurcation chip only PCIe x4 in real...and only PCIe Gen2... And when I tested it with inserted Samsung 970 Evo Plus NWMe M.2, the speed was only 2,2-3x better comparing to my another Samsung 860 Pro SSD SATA disk (connected to onboard SATA3 or 2 respectively
). Tested through AS SSD and ATTO benchmark (could share results).I know it´s a bit funny setup and results, especially on ancient C2SBA+ II. with Core2Quad Q9550s (socket 775 CPU)
I think such bad speed results are due to not-so-good ASMedia bifurcation chip, due to its PCIe x4 limit and of course bottlenecked by CPU and MB chipset. But still it should give you some imagination towards running NWMe M.2 SSD disks on PCIe cards on old systems...For me the strange is another situation. I always check CPU utilisation during read and write speed on NWMe 970 Evo Plus. And even on ancient C2SBA+ II and even under Win7x64SP1
, the % CPU utilisation of C2Q was still relatively low. So someone should presume, that if CPU is still NOT fully loaded, than why Axagon PCEM2-ND with 970 Evo Plus is not much faster ? chipset speed limitation etc. ?
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@Smeden - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM. I do them myself.
@Ben Vermeulen - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM. Keep in mind this only adds NVME support nothing to do with bifurcation.
@Ben Vermeulen - I have sent you the BIOS you requested in a PM. Keep in mind this only adds NVME support nothing to do with bifurcation.
Much appreciated!
Any idea on how I would add the bifurcation support (I saw the link to the old forum here, but not sure which part you have to modify for the bifurcation as this old forum link specifies adding NVME support)?
you can not add Bifurcation support. you can only unhide hidden BIOS options and hope the BIOS code takes care of it.
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Great job & Thank you very much for your help.
I have tried to locate the "Bios driver injection" -guide from the old win-raid forum ( now located on winraid.level1techs.com ), but with no luck.
A good thing is that the Bios on the X9SRI-f allready supports bifurcation.
If the modded bios adds the native nvme support, then hopefully I will be able to create a bootable Raid-1.
Best regards
Niels