June 26, 201610 yr Hi guys I'm looking to update the stock bios on my N40L today but struggling to find a workable link for the bios to create the USB. Can someone help with a working link or even post a disk image I can just write to a USB? Need to add 5 drive to ODD and move Cache disk from ODD SATA to ESATA.
June 26, 201610 yr Author Finally managed to find a working link for SP64420.exe but not sure if that's stock bios or modded
June 26, 201610 yr Author Upgrade went well, just running pre clear on new HDD in ODD bay and swapped the cache drive to the ESATA port. Is there any settings that I need to look at in the BIOS to make sure I have full speed enabled on all ports? It is already set to 3gbps VGA to 32MB TIA
June 26, 201610 yr Would you mind posting a link to that BIOS file in case it's helpful to someone else, please?
June 26, 201610 yr Author I searched site and found this post https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11585.msg326928#msg326928 before that I must have went through around 5 or 6 dead links
June 26, 201610 yr You can take a look at this site as well http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/forum/67-microservers/ they got a whole area for hp microservers. There is a thread with the bios info in it.
June 28, 201610 yr Author Im pretty sure I must not have set my bios settings correctly DC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E1DNXP34 Zeroing. 48% @ 20 MB/s (37:43:41) Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right.
June 29, 201610 yr Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right. These are my settings, all my ports work at full speed: Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] OnChip IDE Type [iDE] SATA IDE Combined Mode [Disabled] SATA EPS on all PORT [Enabled] SATA Power on all PORT [Enabled]
June 30, 201610 yr Author Will have to wait for this drive to complete and then find some screenshots to make sure bios settings are right. These are my settings, all my ports work at full speed: Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] OnChip IDE Type [iDE] SATA IDE Combined Mode [Disabled] SATA EPS on all PORT [Enabled] SATA Power on all PORT [Enabled] Thanks for the reply will be applying these settings tonight after work.
July 18, 20169 yr I picked up a new to me N40L and I have not flashed it. Here is the speed of pre-clear write, and I was just wondering if you guys saw other performance gains?
August 21, 20169 yr The page linked is down so I had to find a version of the patched firmware elsewhere. I grabbed it from https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP-Proliant-Microserver-AMI-BIOS-MOD?pid=75965#pid75965 -- it seems to be operational, but I'm getting 60MBps writes and 260MBps reads on SATA channel 5 with a brand new ADATA SSD. Settings confirmed per Johnnie Black's post. Any ideas? Is it possible the patched versions for N40Ls and N54Ls are not compat with N36Ls? If that were the case, I'd expect a lot of other things to not be working properly... According to discussion here: http://www.nathanielperez.us/blog/hp-proliant-n40l-bios-modification-guide, it should also work on N36L. Wonder why my speeds are such garbage
August 21, 20169 yr The read speed stayed the same of course, and the write started out quite a bit faster but it seems to be settling in the 60-70MBps range, steadily decreasing from about twice that at the beginning of the write. I'll try hdparm after this is finished.
August 21, 20169 yr The read speed stayed the same of course, and the write started out quite a bit faster but it seems to be settling in the 60-70MBps range, steadily decreasing from about twice that at the beginning of the write. I'll try hdparm after this is finished. How big is the file? This is normal speed for TLC ssd's after around 2GB.
August 21, 20169 yr How big is the file? This is normal speed for TLC ssd's after around 2GB. Ah, I'm probably good then, this was sustained write during preclear. For giggles, here's some other metrics: root@isak:/boot# hdparm -Tt /dev/sdf /dev/sdf: Timing cached reads: 2566 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1283.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 788 MB in 3.00 seconds = 262.24 MB/sec root@isak:/boot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=8k count=10k 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0.460711 s, 182 MB/s
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