Supermicro SAS3 HBA
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For EU guys, if you are nice and write the guys a nice message, your BID of 60EUR gets accepted here for a HP H240 (SAS3).
Ebay Link: HP H240 Dual-Port 12Gb/s PCIe x8 SAS RAID Controller 726909-001 779134-001 DL G9 | eBay
Ebay Link: HP H240 Dual-Port 12Gb/s PCIe x8 SAS RAID Controller 726909-001 779134-001 DL G9 | eBay
Did you check the links in the Download section here?
And the nice thing about Supermicro HBA/RAID drivers is that that they are almost always simply straight LSI (or Avago, or Broadcom, or whatever they're called this week). Sometimes with a little branding, but not some completely rewrittten stuff that doesn't work half so well. Not like some companies do (yeah, I'm looking at you company who's name rhymes with Hell
)Edit: And before I get bashed by any fanboys/girls, I have lots of said company's stuff and will certainly buy more. That doesn't mean I like how they do their drivers
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Thanks for the confirmation that the received unit was in IT mode, which is what I need.
From my understanding there is an AOC-S3008L-L8e and an AOC-S3008L-L8i. The former is IT and the latter is IR, but they can both be flashed to the other mode. The AOC-S3108L-L8i is a full-blown RAID card, and is what I am replacing with an IT mode 3008 to use ZFS. I may have misunderstood, but as long as I receive an IT card I am happy
As for EU guys wanting LSI, there is plenty of CP400i for 63 EU which can be easily flashed to 3008-8i:
FSC 12Gb/S PCIe x8 SAS SATA RAID CONTROLLER A3C40174126 LOW PROFILE CP400i V137 | eBay
Flashing guide:
FSC 12Gb/S PCIe x8 SAS SATA RAID CONTROLLER A3C40174126 LOW PROFILE CP400i V137 | eBay
Flashing guide:
Nope. The L8e is external connectors only.Thanks for the confirmation that the received unit was in IT mode, which is what I need.
From my understanding there is an AOC-S3008L-L8e and an AOC-S3008L-L8i. The former is IT and the latter is IR, but they can both be flashed to the other mode. The AOC-S3108L-L8i is a full-blown RAID card, and is what I am replacing with an IT mode 3008 to use ZFS. I may have misunderstood, but as long as I receive an IT card I am happy
So I received my Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E cards this week. The bios on the first card was from 2015. That is older than the two packages on the SM site. Also I looked at the drives that they tested. Make sure to take a picture on the SAS address before you do the upgrade. The packages have two folders (IR and IT). There is a batch file that does the whole upgrade. Since I'm using ZFS I configured the usb boot drive for IT. The batch file erases the firmware and the bios (it takes a bit of time), and then it updates the firmware and the bios on the card. Finally it asks for the last 9 digits of the sas address, Get the info from you picture, Look closely at the number and remember last 9digits....
