Some time ago, I purchased on eBay a cheap SUN F20 Flash accelerator.
The card flash was working fine but the "external" SAS ports were not working.
In a stupid move, I tried to flash a generic LSI 1068E firmware on the card. The SAS ports were working fine but the flash modules were no longer recognized.
MatrixMjK helped me by providing an updated firmware for the card that I did try to flash. The external port were deactivated but the flash modules could not be initialized. "lsiutil" tells "Unaddressable device detected"
Before my initial flash, I made a backup of the card firmware and bios but I forgot the NVDATA. When I restore my backups I end-up in the same situation as above (Unaddressable device detected). So I guess something important was in the NVDATA.
If someone else has this card, I would be very grateful if he could provide me with a full backup of his card flash.
I guess the following should do it (if there is a better option, please advise)
sasflash -ubios bios.bin -ufirmware firmware.bin -ufwbackup fwbackup.bin -unvdata nvdata.bin
By the way, if you have this card and also have the "disabled port issue", you just need to use lsiutil function 13. Change SAS IO Unit settings to enable them (but I found that too late)....
The card flash was working fine but the "external" SAS ports were not working.
In a stupid move, I tried to flash a generic LSI 1068E firmware on the card. The SAS ports were working fine but the flash modules were no longer recognized.
MatrixMjK helped me by providing an updated firmware for the card that I did try to flash. The external port were deactivated but the flash modules could not be initialized. "lsiutil" tells "Unaddressable device detected"
Before my initial flash, I made a backup of the card firmware and bios but I forgot the NVDATA. When I restore my backups I end-up in the same situation as above (Unaddressable device detected). So I guess something important was in the NVDATA.
If someone else has this card, I would be very grateful if he could provide me with a full backup of his card flash.
I guess the following should do it (if there is a better option, please advise)
sasflash -ubios bios.bin -ufirmware firmware.bin -ufwbackup fwbackup.bin -unvdata nvdata.bin
By the way, if you have this card and also have the "disabled port issue", you just need to use lsiutil function 13. Change SAS IO Unit settings to enable them (but I found that too late)....