Recovering the Firmware on a Supermicro BPN-SAS3-846EL1 Backplane

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 21:26:32 +0000

In a previous adventure I replaced an Adaptec HBA with an LSI SAS3 HBA, and the chassis drive bay LED’s stopped working. I suspect the LSI card does not play nice with the SGPIO sideband controller, and I decided to replace the chassis with one similar to my SC846 chassis, where the LSI card and drive bay LED’s do work fine.

What should have been a simple replacement turned into quite a recovery operation.

Windows 8 Install Hangs Booting From LSI 2308 SAS Controller

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:29:48 +0000

I’ve previously posted about problems installing Windows 8 on SuperMicro machines, and that SuperMicro released a Beta BIOS that solved the install problems. I’ve since run into two more problems; the install hanging when booting off the LSI 2308 SAS controller, and a BSOD when using a Quadro 5000 video card (more on that in a later post).

I have two SuperWorkstation machines, a 7047A-T using an X9DAi motherboard, and a 7047A-73 using an X9DA7 motherboard.

Firmware on Pieter Viljoen's Blog

Recovering the Firmware on a Supermicro BPN-SAS3-846EL1 Backplane

Windows 8 Install Hangs Booting From LSI 2308 SAS Controller