Can you send pics of the rails? I bought mine months ago - and I haven't racked it yet and wondering now if I got the wrong ones.
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I updated the backplane firmware before putting any drives in and I've had 6 x 6TB SATA running strong for a few months. No issues.
don't have the wrong rails handy but the wrong rails are the sliding ones.
the correct "rails" have a bottom lip that the server just sits on.
Indeed, flashing the sas expander firmware fixes that issue. The SAS expander firmware has to be done before doing the BIOS or BMC. Also, good luck finding the firmware. Quanta removed all firmware from the website.
Thank you @semidetached and @lnxpro. Really appreciate the help!
Well, that's a bummer with regards to the firmware no being available anymore, but thank you for the heads up. That sort of kills it for me
. Hate to ask, but anyone happen to have local copies of the latest files and willing to generously share them?
Well, that's a bummer with regards to the firmware no being available anymore, but thank you for the heads up. That sort of kills it for me
. Hate to ask, but anyone happen to have local copies of the latest files and willing to generously share them?I zipped up everything I found: two revs of the BIOS and BMC, the expander FW, and both IT and IR FW for the SAS controller. My expander identified itself as the "S2PH" model, so I used the "Broadcom" file.Well, that's a bummer with regards to the firmware no being available anymore, but thank you for the heads up. That sort of kills it for me
Quanta_SD1Q.zip
drive.google.com
Yup I have the wrong ones then - I have some Kingslide rails that look like what I would see in a Dell box... except I ordered my server back when these were first talked about... good luck getting replacements now.
Seems like I might have bricked mine through the BIOS update procedures. I managed to get the BMC updated to 3.33 and run the linux utilities to flash the BIOS to 3A14, but now never posts... Anyone have an idea on downgrading procedures for the BIOS to see if I can save myself? BMC is still accessible.
you can flash it through the BMC web interface. but the big question is, did you update the SAS expander firmware first? if you didn't and if you don't have the old bios update file, you are not going to be able to fix it. the SAS expander has to be updated before you update the BIOS.
post #190 has a firmware zip file. you can try flashing the .12 bios through the BMC web interface then update the SAS expander firmware and then update the bios to latest .14 version.
I did manage to get it downgraded through the BMC, but I've botched the SAS firmware updates. After ran the efi sas3flash.efi -o -e 6 erase command to work towards updating the SAS controller it appears to be stuck. I've tried to finish up clearing the flash with megarec and I'm kind of at an impasse. It's been an interesting weekend trying to get this thing to the point of being able to boot unraid with some SATA disks, I wanted to get it to IT mode on the controller at the same time but maybe I was a bit too ambitious.
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So just to recap, flash order is:
1.) Bmc
2.) Sas expander
3.) Bios?
I'll hopefully get my hands on these come next week. Any news on non-java iKVM?
So after Fedex initially promised the shipment to be on 10. day of February, I finally received two servers today on the 25. A tad bit late, but not a big deal. Luckily kids were at grandparents so I had a free evening to spend it with best way I could imagine - tinkering with new hardware.
First one booted up fine, it was a wee bit banged up but every tray slides out fine. No problems so far with this one.
Other one was a bit more banged up. The rear 2,5" trays didn't slide out. There's a metallic ear in the rear which was turned into a U shape and it blocked the trays, I did my best to straighten it out but the 2,5" trays still didn't slide out. O well. So I tried booting it up, fans spin up twice but there's no picture out. The other server puts out video as the fans spin a bit down second time, but this one doesn't. I tried the psu's, multiple sticks of ram. Any ideas what to try? I checked the green/red leds on the motherboard, too. They both light up and act same way as far as I could tell.
First one booted up fine, it was a wee bit banged up but every tray slides out fine. No problems so far with this one.
Other one was a bit more banged up. The rear 2,5" trays didn't slide out. There's a metallic ear in the rear which was turned into a U shape and it blocked the trays, I did my best to straighten it out but the 2,5" trays still didn't slide out. O well. So I tried booting it up, fans spin up twice but there's no picture out. The other server puts out video as the fans spin a bit down second time, but this one doesn't. I tried the psu's, multiple sticks of ram. Any ideas what to try? I checked the green/red leds on the motherboard, too. They both light up and act same way as far as I could tell.
My unit also didn't boot out of the box. I managed to get in via IPMI and found out that either the BMC (or BIOS, can't remember) had been upgraded out of order. Can you get in via the web interface and see what versions are currently installed?
flash SAS Expander first. then BMC, then BIOS last.
as far as the one that's not booting, try connecting the rj45 to network and see if it picks up an IP address and then connect to it via the web interface to that IP address. default username is admin/admin
the event log may give you an indication of any issues.
as far as the one that's not booting, try connecting the rj45 to network and see if it picks up an IP address and then connect to it via the web interface to that IP address. default username is admin/admin
the event log may give you an indication of any issues.