That's installed unfortunately didn't fix my problem. How badly configured does a disk need to be to only run at 4mb On 18/03/2014 3:43 PM, "Rachel Polanskis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2014, at 3:14 pm, Jeff Allison <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is it the O41072911.ROM? > > Did you use flashrom of the dos disk thingo. > > On 18 March 2014 14:06, gr0ve <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seriously, you should flash the BIOS! I get 80mbps reads on ZFS > > and depending, 30-40mbps on writes. Without the BIOS mod, you > > are getting only IDE speeds there. The original BIOS holds this machine > > back and it is perfectly safe. The BIOS ensures AHCI support is > operational > > as well as the 3gbps SATA II bus. Once you see the improvement, you > > can choose to also select write cache enabled|disabled although > > this is best with a UPS ;) > > > > > > rachel > > Hi, > The HP BIOS version is the O41072911.ROM as you suggest. > You need this to install the "theBay" ROM as well. > > The process is shown online, but in short you copy the HP BIOS using a > DOS/windows installer to a USB stick then copy the "theBay" rom image over > the > top. You could try to "dd" the image but it does some weird trickery to > make > the stick bootable for installing the BIOS. > > You can look for TheBay_Microserver_Bios_041.rar online. > The source information is: > > > http://www.avforums.com/threads/hp-n36l-n40l-n54l-microserver-updated-ahci-bios-support.1521657/ > > And it has all the guff on getting the BIOS onto your N54L and also tips > on how to configure it. > I have all the files if you need them.... > > Once again, these are terrific little servers. It has an internal USB > port so I just loaded FreeNAS > onto an 8Gb USB stick and boot from there. All the internal SATA disks > are in ZFS disk pools which > do my bidding. As I use ZFS, I went with 8gb ECC memory. I also added an > additional Gigabit Ethernet adaptor as the built in broadcom is general > networking and I run the second Gig-E port with Jumbo Frames using a > gigabit crossover (there is such a thing) > to a Mac Mini with the thunderbolt port running Gig-E and doing iSCSI! > The Mac Mini runs esxi 5.5 and > all the data stores (running various species of Linux) hosted off the > HP-N54L. It is like a little tiny > SAN, small but perfectly formed.... > > > rachel > > -- > Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, > Australia > [email protected] IT consulting, security, programming > The more an answer costs, the more respect it carries. > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
