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Guide: Flashing H310/H710/H810 Mini & full size to IT Mode
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Don't forget @fourlynx who did half the work!
I tried the H710P B0 xflash today and it worked without problems - thanks for your help
One thing I did notice after flashing was that the chip/controller temperature readout in MSM is not available any more.
I guess it's not possible to get this readout even on an genuine 9205-8e, anyway, it's a nice feature I miss.
Thanks again for your help.
One thing I did notice after flashing was that the chip/controller temperature readout in MSM is not available any more.
I guess it's not possible to get this readout even on an genuine 9205-8e, anyway, it's a nice feature I miss.
Thanks again for your help.
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@fohdeesha Have you run across any issues with the inability to select which disk is booted from? I've got an H310 Mini in an R620 that works great after the reflash to IT mode, but the controller seemingly picks a random disk to boot from. I've not been able to find any place within the controller BIOS to select the bootable disk, nor in the system BIOS. Any ideas on this?
I have R420's and one of my H710 mini's shows "RAID Adapter Firmware Failed Validation!!! Adapter needs to be reflashed." I followed your instructions and booted to the FreeDOS live image. When I run the info command the command starts to run correctly but then just stops. Nothing else is displayed after the "Copyright.." line. Is there another way to figure out which chip revision it is? Then, how do I get it to respond to a command? This adapter came from another server (R720) and I'm not sure if it ever worked on that server. I pulled it out of that server since it was going to the bone yard anyway.
in the main menu you can enable/disable disks for boot, it's a weird key to toggle it on and off for drives (like + or - or DEL or something), I can't remember offhand but it shows it somewhere in the menu
you need to pull it out and look at the label on the back of it, then match the part number in my list here to see what card and revision it is: Introduction - Fohdeesha Docs
then go to the appropriate page on the left for that model. be very careful and double check you're on the right page as a lot of the models have extremely similar names and double check the revision as well. then once on the right page just follow the guide as normal (skipping the "info" step because it's going to fail
UGH! I got impatient and totally missed the part number section on the first page. Guessed it might be a D1 card and pressed forward with the Revert script. It appeared to work fine (based on my testing with another known good card). But at reboot, PCIe Training Error: Integrated RAID
System halted! is displayed.
Is there any way to recover the card now or did I brick it? So far I can't get past this in the bootup process.
you bricked it. this is why there's like 5 warnings not to follow the guide unless you're absolutely sure which part it is
Thank you for the support and advice. The guide works great. Thank you so much for putting it together.you bricked it. this is why there's like 5 warnings not to follow the guide unless you're absolutely sure which part it is
@fohdeesha I'm hoping I didn't hard brick my H310 Mini in my R620...
I used the Linux ISO... used the info to collect my address... used the flashing process... rebooted.... didn't get a kernel panic...
However it's telling me No LSI SAS adapters found!
I tried rebooting again and still getting the same message
please tell me I didn't just brick this thing... I just got my unRAID migrated over from a DR4000 to my R620 >.<
On the plus side it's not halting my boot process X-D
I used the Linux ISO... used the info to collect my address... used the flashing process... rebooted.... didn't get a kernel panic...
However it's telling me No LSI SAS adapters found!
I tried rebooting again and still getting the same message
please tell me I didn't just brick this thing... I just got my unRAID migrated over from a DR4000 to my R620 >.<
On the plus side it's not halting my boot process X-D
Hi all, today I tried to flash my H710 D1 to IT mode. It was detected with the info command, I started the flashing process but I got error 524288.
I read that dlowe had the same error so i rebooted as @fohdeesha told him to do. Now it isn't detected on POST neither with the info command in dos (it's stuck after the "copyright" line).
Is there a way to detect it and flash it again ? I saw a guy on YouTube who fixed his H310 by manualy writing the EEPROM. Maybe it's possible with the H710 but I don't know the which tool to use to check theses EEPROMS.
Thanks for any clues
I read that dlowe had the same error so i rebooted as @fohdeesha told him to do. Now it isn't detected on POST neither with the info command in dos (it's stuck after the "copyright" line).
Is there a way to detect it and flash it again ? I saw a guy on YouTube who fixed his H310 by manualy writing the EEPROM. Maybe it's possible with the H710 but I don't know the which tool to use to check theses EEPROMS.
Thanks for any clues
It's not bricked unless it's stopping your machine from booting. It sounds like the IT mode SBR didn't get flashed. Boot the FreeDOS ISO (not linux), and run "310REVRT" without quotations. this will get the card back to clean factory dell. Then remove power from the server completely for 20 seconds or so, then boot the linux ISO, and try following the H310 mini flashing guide again. be absolutely sure it's also an H310 mini as well
You need to follow the revert step at the bottom of the guide page for your card, this will get it back to a factory dell card to start fresh from. If it's a full size H710 D1, that would be running "BIGD1RVT" in freedos. If it's an H710 D1 mini, that would be running "D1REVERT" in freedos. be absolutely sure you know what model the card is. After that, power off the server for 20 seconds, boot it back up and start following the guide again from scratch. It should work
Thanks ! I reverted and did it again. It got stuck at 30% with the same error code but the second pass erased it at 100%
It works fine, you're the best !
Added a warning to the guide to NOT attempt any of these crossflashes on a blade chassis, like an m620 and m820. After some reports, it turns out the blades use a different dell model card, which has slightly different PCI vendor values. following the guide will brick the card as the blade will no longer recognize it. Working on modifying SBRs for these blade cards so I can add a crossflash guide for the blade-specific cards
Quick question I would like to purchase a H710 or H710p PCIE for my R720 and flash it to IT mode. It was stated before that the equivalent LSI cards are better to use?I just need a second controller and I already have the minis ( thanks for the excellent quide!)
Thanks
Thanks
Just a note: in my experience, the H310 Mini will work fine with both BIOS and UEFI Bootloaders on it. The H710 D1 revision Mini also will work with both Bootloaders.
However the H710 B0 revision Mini will have issues as razvan1 saw - unable to enter the config due to boot err. @fohdeesha your fix there is absolutely correct - reflashing the H710 B0 and loading ONLY the BIOS bootloader works correctly.
Thanks again for all the help and shared knowledge @fohdeesha - extremely appreciated!!!
However the H710 B0 revision Mini will have issues as razvan1 saw - unable to enter the config due to boot err. @fohdeesha your fix there is absolutely correct - reflashing the H710 B0 and loading ONLY the BIOS bootloader works correctly.
Thanks again for all the help and shared knowledge @fohdeesha - extremely appreciated!!!
did anyone try to run standard (consumer) SSD"s on the flashed cards? Thinking of installing 8x 860EVO's in my R620..