M1115 cross flash to IT mode?

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JimmyZ

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I bought a M1015 yesterday but the seller tell me M1015 is OOS and he sent me M1115 instead, I'm wondering if the M1015 cross flashing guide works with M1115 too?

--- update 2012-09-06 ---
M1115 arrived.

I have three M1015 successfully cross flashed to 9211-8i IT mode, two of them were involved in this test.

the new M1115 refuse to boot on my acer Q57(non-stop long beep), my friend’s gigabyte G31(repeating single beep), finally it boots on another friend’s supermicro x9scm-f(C204), then I tried to cross flash it to IT mode according to the M1015 guide, but I encountered this bug running sas2flsh :
http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15807.aspx, megarec runs fine so the card is successfully erased.

the dos sas2flsh won’t work due to this bug.

the linux(I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 live) sas2flash can’t see any of those cards, while lspci CAN see them:
M1015 (9211-8i IT mode) ID: 0107: 1000:0072
M1115 (erased) ID: 0100: 1000:0072

the windows tool recognized the two M1015 but not M1115

the next day...

I'm guessing M1115 is only compatible to Gen2 PCI-E slots yesterday, today I tried it on another friend's gigabyte H61 and it refuse to boot too, the motherboard doesn't have a speaker attached so I dunno the beep code.

Thinking sas2flash might not be compatible to Ubuntu 12.04's relatively new kernel, I installed Debian Squeeze on x9scm-f(which is the only bootable motherboard), and then sas2flash did recognize the two M1015, but still not the erased M1115. I tried sas2flash version 5/8/9/10/11, strangely the Linux version P14 on LSI's website is actually v10...

I'm trying to run the ESXI version of sas2flash now...

Two questions:
1, Is M1115's compatibility really so horrible or it's just that the one I got is faulty?
2, Due to the linux/windows version of sas2flash doesn't see the erased card, I'm guessing only the dos version can flash erased cards?

Thank you all for my bad english and your patience to read this long post :(

--- update 2012-09-08 ---
solved by flash under UEFI, thank you all :)
 
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mobilenvidia

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It will be interesting if it can, no reason why it can't
They look identical in pictures, but I've not seen one in the flesh.

But the risk will be all yours.
 

mobilenvidia

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Some updates in the OP
Your Motherboard(s) has same issue as me (ASUS P8Z77 WS)
I cannot use sas2flsh in DOS either, but Megarec works fine.

The most reliable consumer boards that work seems to be ASRock Mobo's
My P55 and Z77 boards both update the M1015 in LSI9211 mode just fine

You should be able to flash via UEFI if your Mobo supports it.
I must check this out, will save me pulling out the other Mobo's just to flash the card.
 

JimmyZ

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yes it has, SAS9223-8i

I tried it again on an Acer H67 motherboard, still no luck, seems cross flash won't affect compatibility :(
 

mobilenvidia

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Looks like the LSI9223 (M1115) has no external LED connectors that the LSI9220 (m1015) does have.
There also looks to be a connector by the back plate that the 9220 lacks
Other than that the boards look the same, some components are different makes.

LSI9223 (M1115)


LSI9220 (M1015)
 
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