Hello all,
This topic has been asked a million times but as always, the answers can go all over the place, which is confusing for someone doing it the first time, such as myself.
Awhile ago i picked up from ebay an lsi 9300-8i card. at the time, it said it was flashed in IT mode (this will be used for a truenas build). i plugged it into the motherboard i'll be using (a supermicro x11ssh-f). after the post, the card shows that it has firmware from 2014. I believe it also claims that it's a 'IR', which from what i think i've read here may indicate that it's not in IT mode.
i hunted around looking to update the firmware version, but it left me more confused.
I plugged it into a win10 pc because I wanted to see if there were any other specs and all i got out of it was that it was a SAS3 card. it will be used with standard sata6 SSD's. does it matter whether i flash it with sas2 or 3 firmware? i was under the impression that you flash it with whatever IT firmware was latest and it ran at whatever speed the drives were, but some say sas2 some say sas3 and it makes me think that i have to specify the firmware.
also, where do I get the firmware? i went to broadcom's site but ti left me more confused.
thirdly, is there an easy utility to flash this to the latest firmware in IT mode that can be done from within windows? As i said, it'll be used in a truenas build, but to do it from within windows makes it easy, adding a measure of safety, especially for a novice such as myself.
I'm sure I'm not providing all the info needed to answer my questions, so thanks for your patience.
This topic has been asked a million times but as always, the answers can go all over the place, which is confusing for someone doing it the first time, such as myself.
Awhile ago i picked up from ebay an lsi 9300-8i card. at the time, it said it was flashed in IT mode (this will be used for a truenas build). i plugged it into the motherboard i'll be using (a supermicro x11ssh-f). after the post, the card shows that it has firmware from 2014. I believe it also claims that it's a 'IR', which from what i think i've read here may indicate that it's not in IT mode.
i hunted around looking to update the firmware version, but it left me more confused.
I plugged it into a win10 pc because I wanted to see if there were any other specs and all i got out of it was that it was a SAS3 card. it will be used with standard sata6 SSD's. does it matter whether i flash it with sas2 or 3 firmware? i was under the impression that you flash it with whatever IT firmware was latest and it ran at whatever speed the drives were, but some say sas2 some say sas3 and it makes me think that i have to specify the firmware.
also, where do I get the firmware? i went to broadcom's site but ti left me more confused.
thirdly, is there an easy utility to flash this to the latest firmware in IT mode that can be done from within windows? As i said, it'll be used in a truenas build, but to do it from within windows makes it easy, adding a measure of safety, especially for a novice such as myself.
I'm sure I'm not providing all the info needed to answer my questions, so thanks for your patience.
