Can I keep the IBM firmware and change the SBR firmware? My M5015 takes about 2 min to get past the BIOS Initialization. I don't want to Brick the card trying to update the FW so I have stuck to the IBM FW only, but I'm tired of the long boot time waiting for the BIOS. Does IBM have a fix for this?Did you also change the SBR ?
The boot time time with SBR is quite ridiculous, even 1/2 as long is twice as long with the SBR set to LSI
Not tried this FW, did have it the day LSI uploaded it.
The largest stripe is 1MBWhat options are available to set stripe size for RAID 0? What is the largest size possible? 1MB? Will M5000 option key act like LSI FP?
I have various SBR's in the Firmware update page I keep hereHi Everyone .
Could somebody please send me a LSI 9261-8i SBR
I could not find any
I wish to crossflash my Fujitsu D2616 card, to LSI 9261-8i that I could use the LSI Raid managger for Win 7. The Fujitsu dos not support Win7 so there si no managger program for Win 7.
I wish to use the Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and the Online RAID Level Migration (RLM) options in the near future.
Theoretically the Fujitsu D2616 has the same chipset as the LSI 9261-8i the "LSISAS2108e" as Pablocool is mentioned.
Please inform me if I'm wrong...
Bios Creen :
My email adres is "pezosandor at hotmail.com"
Thank you very much.
Z.
first I need to down grade the firmware right ? because from 73 the firmware dos not allow to change the SRB right ?
then flow this steps :
0. Downgrade the firmware
0.1 restart,
1. Save original sbr
Megarec -readsbr 0 backup.sbr
2. Write clean sbr file to controller:
megarec -writesbr 0 empty.bin
3. Erase controller Flash (Yes, this is safe procedure)
megarec -cleanflash 0
4. Power cycle your system (just reset, or shut down then restart?)
5. Reflash controller.
sas2flsh -o -f sbrlsi.bin -b 0090_lsi.rom
5.5 megarec -writesbr 0 SBRLSI.bin
6. Program SAS address change:
sas2flsh -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx
where "500605bxxxxxxxxx" SAS address from small green sticker on yor card, without "-" (if I can found any on the card.)