Joe_Miner Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Is the 5th SATA of the N40L set to the same speed of the other SATA ports? I know on the N36L the 5th SATA was derated in speed -- I haven't seen any info on upgradint the speed of the N40L so was wondering if it wasn't necessary. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I believe that by default, no. However some ambitious folks have come up with a BIOS upgrade that changes this. Check out http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP-Proliant-Microserver-AMI-BIOS-MOD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 I believe that by default, no. However some ambitious folks have come up with a BIOS upgrade that changes this. Check out http://www.bios-mods...er-AMI-BIOS-MOD Reading their thread it's hard to tell what exactly they've come up with. They didn't discuss enabling AHCI for the 5th & 6th SATA ports. I did find some interesting info at http://www.avforums.com/forums/networking-nas/1521657-hp-n36l-microserver-updated-ahci-bios-support.html There's some interesting information at http://andysworld.org.uk/tag/hp-proliant-microserver-n36l/ where "Andy" has 5 microservers running ESXi5.0 -- I'm finding his write-ups interesting too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Ok, I did try the BIOS update a few weeks ago and I believe there was an option to change that port from 1.5gb to 3.0. But I can't confirm right now, my server is busy. I'll report later. I'll also check out the Andy site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks, no rush -- my extra RAM isn't in yet. I'm still trying to understand the use for the USB port on the MB. I've read where some have set the USB to contain their OS and boot from that leaving all their SATA drives for data. I did downloaded BIOS from both sites -- I haven't opened the RAR's yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 So you're RARing to go Sorry, couldn't resist it's a weakness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I installed the BIOS and changed the option for the Southbridge to disable IDE on port 4/5, after rebooting my PC, I got a message that it's adding new devices. Now under Device Manager IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, I get ATA Channel 0,1,2,3,4,5, Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA controller. Not sure if this helps you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I installed the BIOS and changed the option for the Southbridge to disable IDE on port 4/5, after rebooting my PC, I got a message that it's adding new devices. Now under Device Manager IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, I get ATA Channel 0,1,2,3,4,5, Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA controller. Not sure if this helps you. Sounds encouraging, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) I installed the BIOS and changed the option for the Southbridge to disable IDE on port 4/5, after rebooting my PC, I got a message that it's adding new devices. Now under Device Manager IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, I get ATA Channel 0,1,2,3,4,5, Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA controller. Not sure if this helps you. Looking good! Thanks Dieharder! Not sure if I'll get to it today we have company coming over and I'm under orders to clean up the man-cave before they get here What did you think of "Andy's" site? Edited January 28, 2012 by Joe_Miner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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