Hi all, thanks in advance for reading.
So, zach4485 and I have both managed to brick 9266-8i controllers in attempts to cross flash to HBA. We both lost SBR and SPD backups, and have since been on quests to recover original state (iMR/Megaraid).
We've reached out in mails and pm's, and received copies of 256 and 512 byte copies from IBM M5016 (LSI 9265), and an original LSI 9266-8i card. Many thanks to perdrix and Erwan for their prompt support.
But! no luck!! Both our cards a most likely a Cisco OEM variant (ucs-raid-9266cv), which may be the reason.
We have tried EVERY guide, tool, platform, hack and mod we could find. We modded the sbrtool and patched lsirec from the excellent work of Marcan, to adopt to the different SBR size and byte layout required by the 2208 rev. C1 chip.
Please don't hesitate to suggest any method for recovery. If we haven't already tried it - we will!
We've guessed and tried numerous SBR versions with different vendor and card ID's from the PCI_ID DB. Many, including the files we received, can successfully be written to the controller, survives reboots, and iMR firmware can be flashed with both megarec and Megacli (adpfwflash and/or m0flash). But the firmware/card doesn't survive boot.
What would be our last resort (other than the bin)?
Last, another kind member traderjay, has offered to help with dumps from a 9266-8i in iMR state.
Which tools would you point at to possibly get a full dump of the card?
Any last ideas much appreciated.
Thanks - Kim
PS. lsirec can hostboot the chip with 9205-8e.bin (with the proper SBR), but can't survive a flash with lsiutil.
NB.: lab notes.
Card installed in a Dell PowerEdge R520 (lspci: 09:00.0).
I/OAT DMA Engine and SR-IOV are disabled in BIOS
FreeDOS | UEFI | Linux | bootable from vFlash | Virtual Media | USB | ESXI.
Server managed from Mac client through virtual console, IPMI and SSH.
Megaraid & HBA/SAS tools: megarec, megaflsh, megacli, sas2flsh, lsirec, lsiutil
Firmware: Several versions tried from initial to most recent from LSI, Cisco, SMC, DELL, IBM.
So, zach4485 and I have both managed to brick 9266-8i controllers in attempts to cross flash to HBA. We both lost SBR and SPD backups, and have since been on quests to recover original state (iMR/Megaraid).
We've reached out in mails and pm's, and received copies of 256 and 512 byte copies from IBM M5016 (LSI 9265), and an original LSI 9266-8i card. Many thanks to perdrix and Erwan for their prompt support.
But! no luck!! Both our cards a most likely a Cisco OEM variant (ucs-raid-9266cv), which may be the reason.
We have tried EVERY guide, tool, platform, hack and mod we could find. We modded the sbrtool and patched lsirec from the excellent work of Marcan, to adopt to the different SBR size and byte layout required by the 2208 rev. C1 chip.
Please don't hesitate to suggest any method for recovery. If we haven't already tried it - we will!
We've guessed and tried numerous SBR versions with different vendor and card ID's from the PCI_ID DB. Many, including the files we received, can successfully be written to the controller, survives reboots, and iMR firmware can be flashed with both megarec and Megacli (adpfwflash and/or m0flash). But the firmware/card doesn't survive boot.
What would be our last resort (other than the bin)?
Last, another kind member traderjay, has offered to help with dumps from a 9266-8i in iMR state.
Which tools would you point at to possibly get a full dump of the card?
Any last ideas much appreciated.
Thanks - Kim
PS. lsirec can hostboot the chip with 9205-8e.bin (with the proper SBR), but can't survive a flash with lsiutil.
NB.: lab notes.
Card installed in a Dell PowerEdge R520 (lspci: 09:00.0).
I/OAT DMA Engine and SR-IOV are disabled in BIOS
FreeDOS | UEFI | Linux | bootable from vFlash | Virtual Media | USB | ESXI.
Server managed from Mac client through virtual console, IPMI and SSH.
Megaraid & HBA/SAS tools: megarec, megaflsh, megacli, sas2flsh, lsirec, lsiutil
Firmware: Several versions tried from initial to most recent from LSI, Cisco, SMC, DELL, IBM.
Code:
AVAGO MegaRAID SAS-MFI BIOS
Version 5.50.03.0 (Build July 22, 2015)
Copyright(c) 2015 AVAGO Technologies
Host Adapter - Bus 9 Dev 0:
F/W is in Fault State - MFI Register State 0xF0010002
Adapter at Baseport is not responding
No MegaRAID Adapter Installed
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