Hi Patrick,Steve, I am getting one this this week. If Pieter has not done it already, I might try to replicate one of his awesome guides with the M5014.
Why are these cards causing so many issues with Mobo's.Card came with 12.12.0-0039
X9SCM-F posts fine with the card but I am getting a blinking cursor even when setting the SSD connected to the motherboard as boot device 1. Have even tried disabling the option ROM, card BIOS, battery pull and etc.
Fun stuff.
See the thread "My M5015 experiences' it will lead you to salvationHi,
I would like to crossflash mine too but need a guide on how to do this?
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
It's in a Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S3. This uses a Fujitsu D3009 motherboard. The raid controller states two speeds for the drive; Drive Speed and Negotiated Link Speed. Both of these are 3Gbps. If it was a limitation of the motherboard wouldn't it still show that the drive is capable of 6Gbps and then negotiate down to 3Gbps?What motherboard have you got the M5014 in ?
In older PCIe Gen1 boards this may happen as the controller to system speed is not high enough to cope with 6Gbps
I couldn't see anything in the BIOS to change the PCIe settings. It's running FW 12.12.0-0111.OK it's fairly new then.
Have a look in the BIOS that the PCIe setting is not set to PCIe Gen1, my ASUS mobo can force PCIe Gen1
This might be the issue, I can test this once I'm back home.
What version FW is the M5014 running, as originally SATA3 was not out when the M5015/4 were released.
Latest version currently is 12.12.0-0111 (or was it 0-0101)
And yes you'd think the controller would say the drives are 6Gbps and slow down to 3Gbps but you never know these days.
It now shows up as a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i during the firmware initialization which is what I would expect using the above. Been a long time since I did a non- sas2flashmegarec -readsbr 0 old.sbr
megarec -writesbr 0 sbrlsi.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0
reboot
megarec -m0flash 0 0102_lsi.rom