LSI SAS3008 RAID Supermicro H12SSL-CT

The Supermicro H12SSL-CT Mainboard is provided with a Broadcom LSI SAS3008 Chip with IR Firmware (Infrastructure RAID). This is the same controller as used for the 9341-4i/8i MegaRAID 12Gbs RAID Controller. In this wiki article, we show how you can administrate the onboard controller via the BIOS.

BIOS introduction

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  H12SSL-CT BIOS Version 2.3 (Build Date 10/20/2021)
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  Advanced
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  Advanced ‣ LSI ... SAS3008
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  Advanced ‣ LSI ... SAS3008 ‣ LSI SAS3 MPT Controller

Controller Management

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  Controller Management
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ View Controller Properties Firmware Type IR shows that the RAID firmware is available (Firmware version 16.0.10.0 in this example)
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  Controller Management
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ Change Controller Properties Rebuild Rate
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  Legacy BIOS
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ Create Configuration
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ Create Configuration Select RAID Level
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ Create Configuration RAID Level selected
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  Controller Mgmt ‣ Create Configuration Select Discs
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  Controller Management
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  Controller Management ‣ Save Controller Events
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  Controller Management ‣ Save Controller Events ‣ Save Events
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  Controller Management ‣ Save Controller Events ‣ Save Events OK

Physical Disk Management

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  Physical Disk Management
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  Physical Disk Management
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ View Physical Disk Properties
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ View Physical Disk Properties
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ View Physical Disk Properties ‣ View More...
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ View Physical Disk Properties ‣ View More...
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ Select Physical Disk Properties
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ Select Physical Disk Properties ‣ Select Physical Disk
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ Select Physical Disk Properties ‣ Start Locate / Blink
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  Physical Disk Management ‣ Select Physical Disk Properties ‣ Stop Locate / Unblink

Author: Werner Fischer Werner Fischer, working in the Knowledge Transfer team at Thomas-Krenn, completed his studies of Computer and Media Security at FH Hagenberg in Austria. He is a regular speaker at many conferences like LinuxTag, OSMC, OSDC, LinuxCon, and author for various IT magazines. In his spare time he enjoys playing the piano and training for a good result at the annual Linz marathon relay.

Translator: Alina Ranzinger Alina has been working at Thomas-Krenn.AG since 2024. After her training as multilingual business assistant, she got her job as assistant of the Product Management and is responsible for the translation of texts and for the organisation of the department.