IBM M1115 Flash To IT Mode

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JamisonTheThird

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I recently purchased one of these from ebay and tested it before attempting to flash and it works with its stock firmware.
So I then did some research to see if I could follow a tutorial to flash a IBM M0115 and yes. Others have had success following the M0115 to flash the M1115.
So I followed this tutorial https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/
I was able to do this part successfully:

megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0


but after that sas2flash.efi was not able to detect the card nor now megarec cannot detect it either.
I have tried several different motherboards from different companies (Supermicro, Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte) with no luck.
Could someone help me solve this issue?

Thanks
 

Spartacus

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I had a similar issue with the H310 trying to figure it out the first time thinking I bricked it. I had to flash the original back onto IR fw and play around with the commands and procedures till I figured out the working process with UEFI.
 

Spartacus

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Not sure then, maybe someone else can chime in, I’ve only worked with the H310’s and built in mobo controllers.
 

BLinux

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since you have erased the SBR and firmware flash on that card, the only tool that can detect it now is megarec. If megarec doesn't detect the card, I suspect it's a goner. megarec is dos only tool AFAIK. you can run:

C:> megarec -adpList

to see if it detects a card at all or not.
 

JamisonTheThird

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megarec -adplist

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I don't understand how the card has been ruined... All I did was:

megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0

just as the tutorial.
 

BLinux

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megarec -adplist

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I don't understand how the card has been ruined... All I did was:

megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0

just as the tutorial.
i don't know how you did it either. but you said megarec doesn't see the card, so that means the card is likely a goner.

there are maybe 2 final options for you:

1) use an external EEPROM programmer to fix the SBR directly at the EEPROM chip
2) the flash chip has a some sort of "reset" pin that you can ground that will clear the chip i think. some times if the -cleanflash didn't complete successfully or something, the partially corrupt content can cause such an issue.

those are the only options i can think of at the point you are at. I've done #1, but I've only heard about #2 and never tried it myself (never needed to).
 
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Aldoszx

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have you tried the tape mod?
M1115 is very to use, and most of the time you should mask B5&B6 pins with tape in order to be seen by the mobo
like in the pictures in part 1 of the guide

maybe you can use the LSI tools from here:
Broadcom Inc. | Connecting Everything
there is a bootable cd/usb with some batch files and tools from LSI
there is also a newer version of megarec in there, but called "megacli.exe"

i have M1115 and the crossflash to 9211 was very straightforward