Guide: Flashing H310/H710/H810 Mini & full size to IT Mode

[fohdeesha]

Hi Does anyone know if the mini cards are interchangeable between servers I have an DELL PE R720 with H710 mini that i have flashed in IT mode. My server DELL PE R730 has a H730 mini this card has an HBA mode but i have read it doesn't pass smart data properly. Can I put the H710 in the R730?

Also are the backplanes interchangeable i have a 16 bay in the R720 and 8 in the R730 can i swap them

nope

 

[chrism9876]

nope

Yea can see they are not interchange able. Just ordered an HBA330 instead

 

[rama]

I have a PERC H710 Mini B0 on a Dell R620. I was able to clear with B0CROSS. FreeDOS iso works fine but whatever I do, I can't boot to the deesh linux ISO. It doesn't show anything, goes to boot screen(3 options), I select first option, screen goes blank for a second and just reboots no matter how many times I tried.

All the settings like disabling some configs are done as well. I tried B0REVERT and then B0CROSS. No errors in either one. I also got a debian 12 live iso to boot and that works without any problem.

What could be the issue with deesh Linux ISO? Are there steps to get all the utiliies into a debian 11 or debian 12, so I could install them after booting to live and try running them?

Thanks

 

[fohdeesha]

I have a PERC H710 Mini B0 on a Dell R620. I was able to clear with B0CROSS. FreeDOS iso works fine but whatever I do, I can't boot to the deesh linux ISO. It doesn't show anything, goes to boot screen(3 options), I select first option, screen goes blank for a second and just reboots no matter how many times I tried.

All the settings like disabling some configs are done as well. I tried B0REVERT and then B0CROSS. No errors in either one. I also got a debian 12 live iso to boot and that works without any problem.

What could be the issue with deesh Linux ISO? Are there steps to get all the utiliies into a debian 11 or debian 12, so I could install them after booting to live and try running them?

Thanks

delete your isos and zip and re-download it from my site, and check the checksum. sounds like you got a corrupted image

 

[rama]

Thanks! This is an iso download issue. I did 2 USB sticks and both had same issues. redownload and rewrite helped.

 

[rama]

For 8 disk R620, the mappings that I was able to get in IT mode is below. I tried looking in the thread and don't think I saw for 8 disk option, so putting this here.

0 -> 4
1 -> 5
2 -> 6
3-> 7
4 -> 0
5 -> 1
6 -> 2
7 -> 3

After installation, I enabled UEFI and can boot from disk 4. (0 with original). However, once I boot, I see all disks showing 0B in sizes. In Devices in Setup, I can see the original disk sizes. I am using proxmox and lsblk shows 0B for all the disks other than 4 and 5 (original 0 and 1). lsmod for SAS shows mpt3sas so I think the right module is loaded. Has anyone run into this issue and have a possible fix?

Thanks

 

[rama]

If anyone is running into the same issue, this is related to some write-protect issues(?)

A detailed article at https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...rives-unusable-in-ktn-stl3.38284/#post-378532

sg_format cleared it and I can access the disks now.

 

[fohdeesha]

added a guide/files for H710 B0 Mini Blade

 

[Bill Luttmer]

Hello,

Does anyone know why a h310 wouldn't recognize drives connected to it?

Can I change/update flash the card in linux? or do I need to boot to freedos?

 

[ericloewe]

You could just read the docs conveniently linked in the OP...

 

[Bill Luttmer]

You could just read the docs conveniently linked in the OP...

I read the docs but I couldn't find any reason as to why my drives wouldn't be recognized?

 

[bonox]

you are using the right tool? ie megaraid, or the dell app or the "press [any] key to access bios" of the perc right?

those cards in raid mode won't show an OS anything until you set them up.

That's completely divorced from the flashing question.

 

[Bill Luttmer]

Yes I am using the megaraid software, and I had asked about the flashing because I didnt know if something had gone wrong.

 

[bonox]

if the card is original, then something's wrong with the hardware (card, drives, cables, power etc. If you tried to flash it and something went wrong (like not following the instructions to the letter) then the card is in aa borked state and of course it won't recognise anything.

If it flashed correctly, then megaraid won't work anymore because it's designed for IR firmware not the IT you've just flashed to it.

last point - are you using drives with a 3.3v signal issue that fail to spin up because you're powering it from a consumer psu not a backplane?

 

[Bill Luttmer]

if the card is original, then something's wrong with the hardware (card, drives, cables, power etc. If you tried to flash it and something went wrong (like not following the instructions to the letter) then the card is in aa borked state and of course it won't recognise anything.

If it flashed correctly, then megaraid won't work anymore because it's designed for IR firmware not the IT you've just flashed to it.

last point - are you using drives with a 3.3v signal issue that fail to spin up because you're powering it from a consumer psu not a backplane?

With doing more research it may be because I am using a dell 9020 mini tower, but yes I can feel the drives spinning up.

I may have to do the tape trick. 4

Thanks