Huawei SR430C-M LSI3108 1GB RAID FW

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DUGi

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Jul 27, 2021
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Hello,
I bought SR430C-M LSI3108 1GB RAID card and I flashed wrong FW to card.
I'm not able to download FW from Huawei as it is available only to engineers.
Is there anyone with this card or have FW for this card ?
Is it possible to flash it with different firmware ? DELL/LSI/SMC ?

I tried several FWs but with no luck ( MR3108FW.ROM, smc3108.rom, MR_614p5.rom, fw_16mb.rom)

megarec3 -cleanflash 0
reboot
megarec3 -m0flash 0 smc3108.rom
reboot

I found KB on Huawei site: Failed to Start the Server and "Invalid NVDATA" Is Displayed- Huawei
is there any way how to recover this card or it can go into the bin ?

thanks
 
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DUGi

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I did clean FW and ATM it looks like there is no FW at all :(

sas3flsh detecting Adapter as Avago SAS: SAS3108_2(C0)
and saying that Controller is not operational. Firmware download is required.
It asking for file, but for all FW files I tried failing:
Firmware image does not have v Valid Signature.
Firmware Image Validation Failed!

"megarec3 -m0flash 0 FW.rom" working saying success but there is no FW on the card after reboot.
any ideas ?
 

DUGi

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Hello,

can someone explain why SAS3108 have just one smc3108.rom file in the firmware package and for example SAS3008 have 3 .rom files ? :
3008IR16.ROM
mpt3x64.rom
mptsas3.rom
 

DUGi

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Hello,

I discovered helpfull command:
MegaRec -corruptInfo
SBR BAD
BIOS BAD

I restored SBR:
MegaRec -writesbr 0 sbr.bak (god bless that I did backup)

MegaRec -corruptInfo
SBR OK
Bios: BAD

Reflashed again:
MegaRec -m0flash 0 smc3108.rom

MegaRec -corruptInfo
SBR OK
Bios: OK

Reboot

Card is back but complaining about NVDATA setting
Firmware did not find valid firmware image which matches NVDATA settings on the controller.

any idea how to fix this ?
same issue with MR3108FW.ROM


thanks
 

DUGi

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Hello,

after all those troubles I flashed FW:

megarec3 -cleanflash 0
megarec3 -m0flash 0 mr3108fw.rom

24.21.0-0095_SAS_MR_FW_IMAGE_APP_4.680.00-8454.zip FW downloaded from:

the card is operational and all RAID volumes are fully back with data :)
 
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