Looking for a bit of guidance:
This is my first foray with flash raid controllers. I'm trying to get my H700 to operate in IT mode so that UNRAID or FREENAS can see the drives individually.
Last night I tried flashing the files I found in previous thread but it's not in IT mode. I'm not sure if there are different files I should be using or another setting that needs to be set after the flash but I didn't see anything obvious on the controller setup screen.
Odd thing was MEGAREC would freeze in the R510 when I ran any command including "-adplist". I could only get it to work inside of my R610.
EDIT: Adding details
Files used: see "previous thread" above for link to thread, direct link: https://bigxor.com/H700.zip
Steps used:
This is my first foray with flash raid controllers. I'm trying to get my H700 to operate in IT mode so that UNRAID or FREENAS can see the drives individually.
Last night I tried flashing the files I found in previous thread but it's not in IT mode. I'm not sure if there are different files I should be using or another setting that needs to be set after the flash but I didn't see anything obvious on the controller setup screen.
Odd thing was MEGAREC would freeze in the R510 when I ran any command including "-adplist". I could only get it to work inside of my R610.
EDIT: Adding details
Files used: see "previous thread" above for link to thread, direct link: https://bigxor.com/H700.zip
Steps used:
When that didn't work, I also tried following:0) Identify the card you want to flash
megarec -adplist
1) Save your current SBR to backup SBR just in case...
megarec -readsbr 0 backup_h700.sbr
2) Reflash the SBR with the version you want:
megarec -writesbr 0 sbrh700.bin
3) Empty the BIOS:
megarec -cleanflash 0
4) Reboot the computer and boot from the flash drive again. Your RAID card BIOS will not load. That is normal, you just wiped it clean.
5) Flash the Firmware back:
megarec -m0flash 0 0004_del.rom
After that didnt work, I went out and got new drivers from LSI for the card. 12.15.0-0239_MR_2108_SAS_FW_2.130.403-4660 was the current firmware that came with mr2108fw.rom. I then repeated the above processes using this firmware. All four times everything flashed correctly and executed with "success".
- Boot PC to USB DOS
- Megarec -adplist
- Megarec -cleanflash 0
- Reboot PC back to USB DOS
- Megarec -m0flash 0 0004_del.rom
- Megarec -writesbr 0 sbrh700.bin
- Megarec -writespd 0 spdh700.bin
- Reboot
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