Hey,
So I have this controller. It's a smartHBA 2100-4i4e. I bought it thinking it should be compatible with SmartHBA firmware, but I neglected to read the fine print that it is sold by HP. So now I find out it's only compatible with HP firmware, as far as I can tell.
Has anyone ever managed to flash an HP-branded Adaptec HBA with stock Adaptec firmware? The HP firmware hasn't been updated since 2018.
The latest firmware I could get on it is 1.98 while the Adaptec site just released 3.21 a few months ago.
I've tried using both the HP ssflash.exe utility and Adaptec's arcconf and maxview storage managers to update with stock Adaptec firmware, no luck yet. It definitely doesn't seem to be as easy as an LSI controller - I just flashed an HP 9214-4i with LSI 9214-4i4e firmware last month.
I've opened the two .bin files in HxD (hex editor) and looked through the differences, but I'm really not sure what I'm doing. One clue is a verbose flash will appear to flash the entire file until it gets to the end, and then I get a "security error" at the end of the file.
Any ideas much appreciated!
So I have this controller. It's a smartHBA 2100-4i4e. I bought it thinking it should be compatible with SmartHBA firmware, but I neglected to read the fine print that it is sold by HP. So now I find out it's only compatible with HP firmware, as far as I can tell.
Has anyone ever managed to flash an HP-branded Adaptec HBA with stock Adaptec firmware? The HP firmware hasn't been updated since 2018.
The latest firmware I could get on it is 1.98 while the Adaptec site just released 3.21 a few months ago.
I've tried using both the HP ssflash.exe utility and Adaptec's arcconf and maxview storage managers to update with stock Adaptec firmware, no luck yet. It definitely doesn't seem to be as easy as an LSI controller - I just flashed an HP 9214-4i with LSI 9214-4i4e firmware last month.
I've opened the two .bin files in HxD (hex editor) and looked through the differences, but I'm really not sure what I'm doing. One clue is a verbose flash will appear to flash the entire file until it gets to the end, and then I get a "security error" at the end of the file.
Any ideas much appreciated!