LSI 9270-8i IT mode
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megarec -cleanflash X
reboot
flash the original 9270's sbr
flash the 2208_16.rom
reboot
If you can flash the single bios after that,everything'll be done
I retried,the SubID shows it's a 9270.
But after I flashed the latest firmware,it changed back
I have been a long term reader and finally got the time to plan a hardware upgrade of my FreeNAS from a TS140 to a X3100 M5.
The X3100 M5 has a H1110 and M5110 with 1GB, to setup 5 drives RAIDZ2, which card is better as HBA for this purpose. I am running it as a file server and is on CAT6 at a home enviroment.
I noticed the M5110 can be covered to 2308 and I am curious if you guys have seen this video and maybe we can figure something out together?
(i can understand he has a shop and won't give out his secret sauce)
The X3100 M5 has a H1110 and M5110 with 1GB, to setup 5 drives RAIDZ2, which card is better as HBA for this purpose. I am running it as a file server and is on CAT6 at a home enviroment.
I noticed the M5110 can be covered to 2308 and I am curious if you guys have seen this video and maybe we can figure something out together?
I followed the guide here and it seems to work for the M5110
@vanfawx
Any chance you could send me your backups as well?
I bought two LSI 9207-8i from Ebay but think i got ripped off or sold bad returns, none of them worked out of the box.
One of them is identified as a SAS2308_2 D1 by sas2flash.efi but it says it needs a bios. When flashing, it goes all the way but is then stuck at reseting adapter and after reboot i'm back to start. Tried with older versions (P14) of sas2flash and firmware without luck.
The other is not identified by sas2flash and Windows shows it has another device ID (008f instead of 0087).
Megarec finds them both (shows as 2208) but get an error trying to dump both spd and sbr).
Seller said i could return them but it's a hassle sending them back to China and since i was ripped off on the cards i'm afraid i'll be out of both cash and cards if i do.
Any chance you could send me your backups as well?
I bought two LSI 9207-8i from Ebay but think i got ripped off or sold bad returns, none of them worked out of the box.
One of them is identified as a SAS2308_2 D1 by sas2flash.efi but it says it needs a bios. When flashing, it goes all the way but is then stuck at reseting adapter and after reboot i'm back to start. Tried with older versions (P14) of sas2flash and firmware without luck.
The other is not identified by sas2flash and Windows shows it has another device ID (008f instead of 0087).
Megarec finds them both (shows as 2208) but get an error trying to dump both spd and sbr).
Seller said i could return them but it's a hassle sending them back to China and since i was ripped off on the cards i'm afraid i'll be out of both cash and cards if i do.
that sounds really sketchy. i would open a return and send them back. if the seller doesn't refund you, eBay buyer protection should kick in and refund you and you can let eBay deal with the seller. just make sure you document everything just in case. if you paid via PayPal, they also provide some sort of buyer protection.. and if you funded the PayPal with a credit card, at least in the USA, the CC bank will also protect you.
Thanks, i will check returning them using Ebay! Considering the time customs in Sweden takes to handle a package (may take a couple of months) a part of me is still hoping that someone has just tried to flash these cards before, messed up and that they can be recovered.
When i complained to the dealer, they claimed both cards were tested before they sent them (I really doubt that as one seems to be missing firmware and one has (at least) wrong device ID). They then just gave me an address in China to send them to but i'll look in to returning them using Ebay return instead.
Seller have very positive feedback overall but checking the few negative ones i see some other users have also had very high failure rates from the seller.
@Rille_lkp - the SPD and SBR files are for a 9270-8i MegaRaid adapter, and won't help you if you're starting with an HBA. You can go MegaRaid -> HBA, but not the other way.
I agree with @BLinux, you should return the cards. If you paid via PayPal, you can start a claim via them if ebay didn't accept the return.
I agree with @BLinux, you should return the cards. If you paid via PayPal, you can start a claim via them if ebay didn't accept the return.
The 9271 8i i believe is just a direct cross flash if memory serves me well. That should be a 2208 that ypu can flash as a 2308 just be sure what the card chipset is in megarec first. If i remember back 2 years ago you can flash 9207 8i firmware to that card. If this is a lsi stock card you can leave the sbr file empty or build your own. There are many guides to do this but its quite easy if you do it from shell on efi system.
)I also have a Fujitsu D3116 controller (mine is chip revision C1) and I also couldn't get sas2flash to recognize the adapter. Here is what I tried
- Backup SBR and SDP
- megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
- megarec -cleanflash 0
- Reboot
- lsirec 0000:05:00.0 unbind
- lsirec 0000:05:00.0 halt
- lsirec 0000:05:00.0 hostboot 9207-8.bin
[Edit]
Interesting fact that I noticed is, that my SBR is 512byte and all sbrempty.bin I could find are only 256byte, so maybe writing a 256byte SBR won't clear everything?
[Edit 2]
I recovered my controller by doing a megarec -m0flash with the 2208_16.ROM I found in this thread and by restoring my original SBR. And now it boots again, but something is different now. It shows LSI BIOS (was Avago before) and controller's vendor name is also LSI (was also Avago before) but product identifier is the old Fujitsu one "RAID Ctrl something" which kinda makes sense I think because I flashed a (stock) LSI firmware and used the Fujitsu SBR. So it seems I now have a Fujitsu controller booting with (stock) LSI firmware. But still sas2flash won't find any LSI controller.
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Hi,friends. I'm also working for crossflash an IBM M5110 to lsi 9270. Sorry for my disturbing, and I'd like for a copy for the SBR files...
Thanks for your help!
I have the lsi 9266 oem sbr . if you need the sbr send me a emai (alan.l.zheng@gmail.com)
to corss flash the lsi 9266 to it mode, you will need the 9205 sbr.
I cross flashed the 9266 to it mode, but some ports are not working. I m not sure is my controller or the f/w is not support with the card