Yup. I ordered one last Wednesday. Should be here tomorrow along with the MB.For anyone getting one of these I found the regular I/O shield for 8$ US based: Supermicro I/O SHIELD MCP-260-00042-0N 672042093625 | eBay
Assuming the part number from the supermicro site still matches: MCP-260-00042-0N
It appears to be correct based off visual inspection, will letcha know once I get it.
Good to know, I suspect the ebay seller orders in bulk and sells them for a small profit since supermicro does crazy shipping prices like most manuf do.If you have other items you'd like to buy from supermicro consider using their store for the I/O shields as they're only $2.70. For just one item the shipping makes it more, but if you need more than one or have other things that would already cost you shipping from supermicro it'll save you a few bucks.
Supermicro MCP-260-00042-0N IO Shield For Motherboard and 2U+ Chassis
Thanks for sharing that. Always nice to know which vendors are packing well. Sounds like if they did give you something at the bottom of the stack, it was a clean stack.Just got my board in today, damn this thing is pretty clean, came with the battery, motherboard screws, and it was packed amazingly well.
Gonna test it out later but I don't expect any issues from visible inspection.
Golden.Best of all, IPMI was already set to DHCP enabled, no password on bios, and IPMI password was the default ADMIN/ADMIN, so getting this up and running headless was simple!
IIRC its better to put it in true it-mode as the non-raid doesn't pass all of the drive information to some OS'es.Is the flash from IR -> IT is still needed with this generation of SAS controller? I thought that started with 3008, now disks could be configured as "non raid" and were directly handled by the OS, like on a HBA.
Waiting for the delivery today too![]()
[ 11.156801] mpt3sas_cm0: LSISAS3008: FWVersion(06.00.00.00), ChipRevision(0x02), BiosVersion(00.00.00.00)