oddballracing

Adefx, You're not alone. I've got a stack of R2312GZ/GL (various OEM models of course) I got from auction and am fighting this same battle (albeit well over a year...

While Fohdeesha has laid the groundwork for us, I think we need to extrapolate the work done with the Dell controllers in hopes we can answer these questions on what...

Progress: The RMS25JB080 cards came in, and I pulled the SBR from them. comparing them with the RMS25CB080 SBR, there is very little different, but they have the same binary...

Hey, I can totally relate. I'm finding my way by feel mostly with this, trying to get my head around the structures that LSI put together on these things. When...

Alright, now the plot thickens. I have identified the problem port. It is port/link 01 (second port). If I disable this port in lsiutil, I can get 6 links to...

scratch that pairs idea. just set phy 0 (handle 0001) online and now I have 7 links: ``` Main menu, select an option: [1-99 or e/p/w or 0 to quit]...

OK, update firmware, BIOS and UEFI BSD to P20 and I don't understand what I'm looking at here: It hasn't crashed, but then again, I haven't rebooted anything yet (...

just a quick update. Attempting a shutdown with 8 links connected cause the same NMI kernel panic (as I had expected), this appears to be caused by the PCIe link...

On a physical hardware note (in case anyone else has the same curiosity with these "proprietary" connectors as I do), having dealt with many SuperMicro blade boards and these Intel...

I'm still working on this, just haven't made any significant discoveries since finding the port that appears to be causing the failure. Currently looking into various differences between 1608E, 1708,...