Archive for February, 2016

Freenas Warning 2

| February 29th, 2016
External SAS card: LSI 9300-8e Downloaded first the installer from: http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8e#downloads The Installer: Installer_P9_for_FreeBSD Firmware and Bios: 9300_8e_Package_P9_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows To flash it, I moved the installed and the firmware and bios files to Freenas.  Before flashing, I had to make sure the SAS controller is in IT mode by executing sas3flash -list I could see that : Firmware Product Read more [...]

FreeNas warning 1

| February 29th, 2016
Download the P20 firmware from ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2308/Firmware/IT/. Create a bootable drive using rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) copied all the files from the downloaded p20 firmware zip file. Copied only the content of the UEFI. Note: seems that the disk is not needed to be bootable since we are entering the UEFI built in shell. Get SAS address from LSI configuration utility on boot. Also can be found on a label inside the machine. Booted the machine into UEFI shell. Read more [...]

Supermicro JBOD default details

| February 29th, 2016

Supermicro JBOD default IP address is: 192.168.1.99.

User Name: ADMIN

Password: ADMIN