LSI 9260-4i / 8i fw / bios help needed

[trans am]

holy crap! It worked!



now i just need to clean these ssds and go for the gold.

[daitro]

holy crap! It worked!



now i just need to clean these ssds and go for the gold.

How did you flash the firmware? Within command prompt in windows with the latest version of MegaCli -- with the command

MegaCli -adpfwflash -f AF2108_FW_Image.rom -a0

?

[SkOrPn]

I think he took Comps advice and flashed from the webbios. See post #3 in this thread. Computurd tells him how to flash it easy from within Windows.

[trans am]

http://www.lsi.com/cm/License.do?url...eous&locale=EN
d/l that

hit "i accept"



paulliesworld: ok go to disk1
inside the zip file
then click on setup.exe



when you install dont use a password
it will give you the option
howver it is going to give you a username
that is the same as your account user name on your os
so if yoiu dont know that pay attention you will need it




just double click setup.exe

paulliesworld: then install as normal


OK when you get in there it is going to have two tabs
one is physical the other is logical


here is the key....
you click into either the physical or the logical tab inside the msm
then you click the controller highlighting it
*right click it
and there will be a option to modify drive proerties etc...
there will also be a area there for firmware

browse to the firmware folder you dled from the lsi site. (it should be a zip file called
12.0.1-0081_SAS_FW_Image_2.0.03-0725 (this is for 9260-4i)

let it roll and watch the monitor text scroll until it confirms the flash was good.

[daitro]

http://www.lsi.com/cm/License.do?url...eous&locale=EN
d/l that

hit "i accept"



paulliesworld: ok go to disk1
inside the zip file
then click on setup.exe



when you install dont use a password
it will give you the option
howver it is going to give you a username
that is the same as your account user name on your os
so if yoiu dont know that pay attention you will need it




just double click setup.exe

paulliesworld: then install as normal


OK when you get in there it is going to have two tabs
one is physical the other is logical


here is the key....
you click into either the physical or the logical tab inside the msm
then you click the controller highlighting it
*right click it
and there will be a option to modify drive proerties etc...
there will also be a area there for firmware

browse to the firmware folder you dled from the lsi site. (it should be a zip file called
12.0.1-0081_SAS_FW_Image_2.0.03-0725 (this is for 9260-4i)

let it roll and watch the monitor text scroll until it confirms the flash was good.

Thank you for those instructions, you and whoever else is helping have my deepest gratitude.

Off topic, which bios did you say you recommend? I'm about to iso flash with the newest from EVGA.

[trans am]

Thank computurd. that was our chat i copied from google chat last night when he walked me through it.

[Computurd]

newest bios diatros, for both the controller and your board. if you are using the evga x58 that is a perfect board i used the same one
*hint* play with the pci-e packets on that board (they are enabled by latest bios) you will get great returns putting it at around 1048 and bump up your ioh vcore a lil bit and watch that fly!!!

which classified do you have?? if it is e759 try these settings to maximize raid goodness!

PCI-E 1048
IOH vcore 1.3
IOH/ICH 1.625
ICH VCORE 1.125
NF200 1.325

there will be some variance of course, but that wil point you in the right direction

[daitro]

newest bios diatros, for both the controller and your board. if you are using the evga x58 that is a perfect board i used the same one
*hint* play with the pci-e packets on that board (they are enabled by latest bios) you will get great returns putting it at around 1048 and bump up your ioh vcore a lil bit and watch that fly!!!

which classified do you have?? if it is e759 try these settings to maximize raid goodness!

PCI-E 1048
IOH vcore 1.3
IOH/ICH 1.625
ICH VCORE 1.125
NF200 1.325

there will be some variance of course, but that wil point you in the right direction

Thank you so much, Computurd! It's blistering along, thanks to your directions. The raid firmware flash worked perfectly. Have you got the BBU? What RAID stripe size are you using? I chose 128k. I made sure to flash the latest bios for my board, before I flashed the LSI card's firwmare.

I have the E760 classified. I'll try those settings in the bios. You're a champion .

[Computurd]

for the e760 there is no NF200 voltage...other than that you should be good. try getting the EVGA ELEET application form their website, it will allow you to change your bus voltages from within your bios with that motherboard, allowing you to run some benches or tests and get real time info from any voltage changes you make to the various busses. just run a bench and see how the results effect performance, then you don't have to reboot every time. really though unless you have a ton of devices none of that is necessary and it is just tweaking, you can plug and play and still achieve awesome results.

[trans am]

HA! I knew it was too good to be true! I plugged in my F3 1TB backup drive to one of the onboard ports on my motherboard and started copying my game files I got my battlefield pr mods installed and patch 1.5 and then just as the maps install I get the goddamn reboot. Ive concluded the crap samsung controllers on the summits or the write back cache enabled without the bbu, or it can't deal or its the board or its just my luck. I've had it dudes. its been a week of this crap and I can't deal anymore. i was gonna do a quick install on the ud5 since it has the option of an onboard Marvel 9128 but its been at the set up is starting splash for 30 min now. I've had it. i'm gonna sell it all and see if I can get a better board for this thing. from what Ive experiences for the short time it worked It was fking amazing!

[daitro]

for the e760 there is no NF200 voltage...other than that you should be good. try getting the EVGA ELEET application form their website, it will allow you to change your bus voltages from within your bios with that motherboard, allowing you to run some benches or tests and get real time info from any voltage changes you make to the various busses. just run a bench and see how the results effect performance, then you don't have to reboot every time. really though unless you have a ton of devices none of that is necessary and it is just tweaking, you can plug and play and still achieve awesome results.

Installed E-LEET right off the MB cd . Changed all the voltages to your specifications and fiddled a bit more.

This drop can't be good:

[Computurd]

that could be a virus scanner app or something running in the background like search etc..if you let your os idle for an hour then run it you probably will not see that. hdtune pro i sdefinitely not the best thing to be using to bench you rarray, not even close. i only trust everest and Iometer. i think for the most part that looks good though...try out everest it is easy to work!

[trans am]

You're not going to believe this but I decided to give it another try. So far I've had no problems but also note I haven't tweaked any settings as far as checking the top and bottom boxes in windows write cache or enabling write back in lsi raid manager. Its not blistering fast but its safe. I'm glad D got his working nicely. I'm excited to see his results. I'll install the lsi windows raid manager and take some screenshots of whats enabled and what's not in the meantime. Maybe you guys can tell me what I can safely enable to get the most out of this setup without damaging the array from the reboots I had.

EDIT Okay here are the SS

[Computurd]

enable write cahceing but do not enable the bottom option, that should be fine. Tbh i have no battery and i run write back all the time. i have not had any issues, however with some instability issues i think you should stay with the write through. i would change to cache on the MSM though. both of those options should be fine without jurting anything. i believe the problem is your board, or issues with your device you were plugging in.

[trans am]

enable write cahceing but do not enable the bottom option, that should be fine. Tbh i have no battery and i run write back all the time. i have not had any issues, however with some instability issues i think you should stay with the write through. i would change to cache on the MSM though. both of those options should be fine without jurting anything. i believe the problem is your board, or issues with your device you were plugging in.

okay what about this screen?? im back partitioning again. crap happened after I installed windows updates. I am on a valid copy of win7 64 enterprise. man this is killing me. Is there a better build than 7600?

[Computurd]

disable ncq other than that it is good, that is the only option you will really need to modify in there, make sure you hit submit on that page though, if you go to the next page and hit submit it wont submit that page.

[daitro]

Random read with 64kb block and 128kb block.

64kb


128kb

[trans am]

Random read with 64kb block and 128kb block.

64kb


128kb

Nice Job D! Looks like you got those x25s flying! I ended up sending back my 4260-4i and the Ud5 board. I didn't want to risk keeping the 92604i just in the event that the card was faulty from the start. I am waiting for a replacement card and maybe I'll try a differnt board like an Asus crosshairIII with it. Can you post some more benches? DId you use the onboard raid on the board 1st? lets see a before and after using same stripe size.

[daitro]

Nice Job D! Looks like you got those x25s flying! I ended up sending back my 4260-4i and the Ud5 board. I didn't want to risk keeping the 92604i just in the event that the card was faulty from the start. I am waiting for a replacement card and maybe I'll try a differnt board like an Asus crosshairIII with it. Can you post some more benches? DId you use the onboard raid on the board 1st? lets see a before and after using same stripe size.

Stupid question, but: were you using your 92604i in a PCIe or PCI slot? If not, there might be some sort of incompatibility with the mb and lsi card. I'd definitely be trying a different board, especially since you're getting a replacement. Have you thought about an EVGA?

I didn't use the on-board raid first. I jumped straight into PCIe raid. I'm paranoid about degrading the performance of my babies, ha ha!

I'll get some more benches for you soon .

[trans am]

no I was in a 2nd x16 slot on a crossfire board. No evga for me. for amd am3 its probably going to be asus M4a or I'm going to revert back to the 775 rampage extreme for a month or so until new chipsets come out and sell everything else in the meatime including the summits.

[daitro]

Hey guys. I ended up purchasing the BBU for my card. I highly recommend it with these results!!

128k random read with WriteBack BBU


64k random read with WriteBack BBU

[Levish]

Hey guys. I ended up purchasing the BBU for my card. I highly recommend it with these results!!

Averages are within error margins of each other (~4-5MB/sec), write caching and the BBU would have no effect on read tests anyway.

Unless I'm missing something?