IBM ServeRaid M1015 SAS2008 Chip - Windows XP x86 Driver?

[BigXor]

I need a driver for the LSI SAS2008 chip for my BartPE environment. Bart uses Windows XP x86 only and there is no driver listed on LSI's site.

I bet someone else has written a driver, but who?

 

[PigLover]

If you want to run the M1015 natively then it most closely matches the MegaRaid 9240-8i. You are right - there are no MegaRaid Win-XP x86 drivers on LSIs site (kinda weird...), but there are Server2003 x86 drivers. The driver model is identical between XP and Server203 so you could give loading those a try. I've done this in the past for other hardware with good results. YMMV.

Alternatively, you could re-flash the card using SAS-9211-8i firmware. While there are no MegaRaid drivers for XP x86 on the LSI site, there are SAS-series drivers for XP x86. You'd lose any Raid5 capability - but I'm guessing you don't have the IBM raidkey anyway so that is probably a minimal problem.

 

[BigXor]

I'm using an IBM BR10i in an ancient backup server for my movies, but XP x64 takes forever to boot on a regular drive. So I happen to have a spare SATA 3 SSD I can use but neither my motherboard or the BR10i support SATA 3.

Ebay has the M1015's everywhere for cheap.

Your right, I use Raid 0 because my main 24/7 movie server uses raid 6 and I don't need the redundancy on a spare backup machine that is turned off 99% of the time and can be reloaded if a drive breaks.

 

[mobilenvidia]

LSI 9240-8i drivers

Scroll down to very bottom of driver section, WinXP x86 drivers are there 2 of them

 

[BigXor]

Excellent.

Thanks for your help mobilenvidia.