Any experience with the NEC 9362-8i?

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rsumperl

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Good Sunday everyone,
Does anyone have any experience with the NEC 9362-8i? I have one coming, from all places, Japan. The card appears to be shorter than the 9361-8i I am presently using and that is a plus. I went to the NEC site and downloaded firmware from 2016. I believe the card uses a 3108, could I just use the latest firmware from the 9361-8i? Anyone have any experience in using this card in other than an NEC server? My motherboard is an Intel S2600CW2SR (The internal SAS is SLOW!)

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I have one generation older card. LSI drivers will work with that card.
 
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I was more wondering of firmware to bring it to the latest. NEC's firmware is dated 2016. There was a firmware released in early 2019 for the 3108 cards. I wonder if it will work.

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Axam said:
I have one generation older card. LSI drivers will work with that card.
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Just spoke with LSI tech support. The 9362-8i cannot be flashed with the 9361-8i firmware. NEC has put their vendor ID in the card which will prevent firmware from other than NEC to flash. Anyone have any thoughts on how to change that vendor ID?
 
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rsumperl said:
Just spoke with LSI tech support. The 9362-8i cannot be flashed with the 9361-8i firmware. NEC has put their vendor ID in the card which will prevent firmware from other than NEC to flash. Anyone have any thoughts on how to change that vendor ID?
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Check card for jumpers. Jumper may revert card to 9361 and then you can flash it.
 
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rsumperl said:
Just spoke with LSI tech support. The 9362-8i cannot be flashed with the 9361-8i firmware. NEC has put their vendor ID in the card which will prevent firmware from other than NEC to flash. Anyone have any thoughts on how to change that vendor ID?
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I personally don't have experience doing this, but here is a start for you if you feel adventurous: Crossflashing the Fujitsu D2607
It applies to SAS2 cards, but some of the tools might work with SAS3 cards as well. As @nthu9280 mentioned in the other thread look for LSIutil.
 
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Good Tuesday everyone,
Well...here is the update. I received the card today, it is shorter but wider than the 9361 which is great for my situation (Intel S2600CW2SR) as I am using this in the bottom card slot. It has 1Gb of cache. I kept my 9361-8i in and booted to the OS. MegaRAID Storage Manager saw the card and I updated it to the latest NEC firmware which is dated 2016. I then took a chance and tried the 9361, 2019 update. Well, worked like a champ. So much for being told I couldn't. No hoop jumping was necessary. SO... I like my 9362, I'm using it in RAID 1. I tried the internal Intel/LSI 12Gb controller on the motherboard. The performance was horrible as there is no cache. I am 100% satisfied. The only thing is I have not seen any of these cards coming from companies in the states. My card was from a company in Japan. Paid $225 and free shipping.
 
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rsumperl said:
Good Tuesday everyone,
Well...here is the update. I received the card today, it is shorter but wider than the 9361 which is great for my situation (Intel S2600CW2SR) as I am using this in the bottom card slot. It has 1Gb of cache. I kept my 9361-8i in and booted to the OS. MegaRAID Storage Manager saw the card and I updated it to the latest NEC firmware which is dated 2016. I then took a chance and tried the 9361, 2019 update. Well, worked like a champ. So much for being told I couldn't. No hoop jumping was necessary. SO... I like my 9362, I'm using it in RAID 1. I tried the internal Intel/LSI 12Gb controller on the motherboard. The performance was horrible as there is no cache. I am 100% satisfied. The only thing is I have not seen any of these cards coming from companies in the states. My card was from a company in Japan. Paid $225 and free shipping.
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Hello! I know this is an older thread, but I got exactly the same 9362-8i card (from Japan/ebay). Which would be the latest firmware for the 9361-8i? I seem to find it on the broadcom website.

What shows up on a search of 9361-8i is (among others):

Latest MegaRAID Firmware, See Important Note in Readme File
MR 7.10 Version: 51.10.0-2683 File Size: 2855 KB Language: English Read Me 06/07/2019

But the readme does not list 9361-8i, but says "supported controller: megaraid sas 9480-8i8e"

Thank you.
 
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sas 12gbit/s is backwards compatible with sas 6gbit/s, so yes it should support that backplane
 
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Sounds good
If I then connect backplane and controller with a SFF-8087 to SFF-8643 cable this will then work - correct?
 
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