HP N40L Firmware or full image available?


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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.

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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]

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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