Hello,
I have a Lenovo 930-24i (this card is based on LSI SAS3508 + LSI SAS35x36R and is presented on Lenovo website as OEM MegaRaid 9460-24i card and the firmware on it is also for 9460-24i but I found that also the MegaRaid 9365-28i has the same design and chipsets with the exception of missing the 7th SAS connector) that gets the all the systems that I tested with stuck with the following screen :
The reason for this error is that one of my colleagues played around with storcli and set the directpdmapping option to on.
I've placed the card in a server that has Direct mode HDD backplane and got the same behavior and I belive that the issue is the expander chip present on this card is not Direct mode capable.
Only way to get the system to boot is by disabling OptRom for the PCIE slot where the card is placed and in this way I get to OS, the card is detected but because is not initialized it is not detected by storcli.
So my question is this - there is any way (software/firmware or hardware) bypass the error and get to OS or to reset the card (erase the NVRAM) to factory defaults ? Any suggestion is welcome and it dose not matter if it is software or direct hardware tinkering.
Best regards and thank you
I have a Lenovo 930-24i (this card is based on LSI SAS3508 + LSI SAS35x36R and is presented on Lenovo website as OEM MegaRaid 9460-24i card and the firmware on it is also for 9460-24i but I found that also the MegaRaid 9365-28i has the same design and chipsets with the exception of missing the 7th SAS connector) that gets the all the systems that I tested with stuck with the following screen :
The reason for this error is that one of my colleagues played around with storcli and set the directpdmapping option to on.
I've placed the card in a server that has Direct mode HDD backplane and got the same behavior and I belive that the issue is the expander chip present on this card is not Direct mode capable.
Only way to get the system to boot is by disabling OptRom for the PCIE slot where the card is placed and in this way I get to OS, the card is detected but because is not initialized it is not detected by storcli.
So my question is this - there is any way (software/firmware or hardware) bypass the error and get to OS or to reset the card (erase the NVRAM) to factory defaults ? Any suggestion is welcome and it dose not matter if it is software or direct hardware tinkering.
Best regards and thank you