(Crossposted to FreeNAS forums)
I have a server with an LSI 9211-IT HBA, Intel 910 SSD, and Chelsio NIC. I was updating the HBA firmware. As usual I checked no other RAID/HBA/LSI cards in the machine, so I flashed the HBA.
It now turns out that the Intel 910 uses the same chip internally - although there was no warning or way to know this in advance - and the LSI updater without warning 'helpfully' detected the Intel SSD and flashed it to LSI firmware as well. Thanks a lot LSI.
I can't directly flash the SSD back to Intel firmware using Intel's SSD updater/toolkit, because it thinks the card has newer firmware (I've downgraded to P15 and it still thinks that). Also Intel only supplies their firmware pre-packaged in their toolkit, you can't get it "bare" as a rom/bin image. I also doubt either company will help (Intel will say "not our fault" and LSI will be unlikely to be able to help on an Intel product).
One possible route back is that if LSI's sas2flash program can grab the firmware off an LSI controller or flash new firmware to one, it can probably also grab and reflash the genuine Intel firmware from one 910 to another.
So this is a plea for help - is there anyone out there who has an Intel 910 400GB card, and can use LSI's "sas2flash" program to get the entire firmware (rom, bin, nvram, etc) from it, and send it to me?
It should be 100% safe, the worst it can be is if sas2flash for some reason could write it on mine, but not read it on someone else's.
Anyone able to help - thank you!!
I have a server with an LSI 9211-IT HBA, Intel 910 SSD, and Chelsio NIC. I was updating the HBA firmware. As usual I checked no other RAID/HBA/LSI cards in the machine, so I flashed the HBA.
It now turns out that the Intel 910 uses the same chip internally - although there was no warning or way to know this in advance - and the LSI updater without warning 'helpfully' detected the Intel SSD and flashed it to LSI firmware as well. Thanks a lot LSI.
I can't directly flash the SSD back to Intel firmware using Intel's SSD updater/toolkit, because it thinks the card has newer firmware (I've downgraded to P15 and it still thinks that). Also Intel only supplies their firmware pre-packaged in their toolkit, you can't get it "bare" as a rom/bin image. I also doubt either company will help (Intel will say "not our fault" and LSI will be unlikely to be able to help on an Intel product).
One possible route back is that if LSI's sas2flash program can grab the firmware off an LSI controller or flash new firmware to one, it can probably also grab and reflash the genuine Intel firmware from one 910 to another.
So this is a plea for help - is there anyone out there who has an Intel 910 400GB card, and can use LSI's "sas2flash" program to get the entire firmware (rom, bin, nvram, etc) from it, and send it to me?
It should be 100% safe, the worst it can be is if sas2flash for some reason could write it on mine, but not read it on someone else's.
Anyone able to help - thank you!!
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