Supermicro X11 or H11 onboard LSI 3008 are shipped with IR mode firmware ph.10. After few email exchange with Supermicro Support, here is the summary,
After reading many website/forum/blog here is my way to flash LSI 3008 Supermicro onboard controller using FreeDOS (sorry I have not yet to find out how to use uefi which should be much easier)
DO NOT REBOOT between step 1~8, you may brick your motherboard. Use at your own risk.
After Flashing - IT mode firmware @ ph15
I am not able to use the LSI3008 firmware provided by Supermicro FTP site, the sas3flsh.exe will complain NVDATA Image does not match controller subsystem ID as following screenshot
- its their official advisory that user can invalid their warranty if they want to flash the onboard LSI 3008 controller firmware to IT Mode.
- Supermicro also said the Chip does not support IT mode at all
- If user want to upgrade their onboard LSI firmware, it is best to RMA back to supermicro to do so.
After reading many website/forum/blog here is my way to flash LSI 3008 Supermicro onboard controller using FreeDOS (sorry I have not yet to find out how to use uefi which should be much easier)
DO NOT REBOOT between step 1~8, you may brick your motherboard. Use at your own risk.
- Use RUIFUS or download freedos 11 live cd iso to make a bootable usb disk
- Download latest lsi9300-8i firmware my example is ph15 and extract the archive to usb disk you just made
- Boot up the system using the usb disk
- Make a record of existing sas address by running
sas3flsh.exe -list
- Erase existing lsi controller firmware & bios by running
sas3flsh.exe -o -e 7
- update new firmware & bios
sas3flsh.exe -o -f sas930~1.bin -b mptsas3.rom
- update uefi bsd version bios
sas3flsh.exe -b mpt3x64.rom
- set sas address
sas3flsh.exe -o -sasadd 50030480XXXXXXX
- reboot
After Flashing - IT mode firmware @ ph15
I am not able to use the LSI3008 firmware provided by Supermicro FTP site, the sas3flsh.exe will complain NVDATA Image does not match controller subsystem ID as following screenshot
Last edited: