x9drl-f7 onboard 2208 flash (IT) problems

[david.t]

Hi

I hoping to flash my onboard LSI2208 (x9drl-f7) following this guide;
Flashing LSI 2208 with IT firmware to use as an HBA - My Wired House

I had a hickup @;
megarec -readspd 0 smc2208.spd

its giving me an error code (16XXX something)

Figured I move on with the guide ( I got no clue what the above step is doing anyway... >_<)

So moving on I saved the SAS address, ran the writebr empty.bin and ran the cleanflash cmd.

Rebooting the computer the LSI controller doesnt show up on boot ( guessing thats normal at this stage).

Now is where I ran in to trouble. I can't flash the card with sas2flash. Megarec still lists the card but sas2flash doesn't. And I've tried EFI 11 and 20, tried 4 different DOS versions.

Any ideas?

 

[vanfawx]

I've used those instructions successfully on a 9270-8i, however I used DOS instead of UEFI. Reading in the SPD and SBR is for recovery purposes if you want to go back to it being a MegaRAID card again. If you have no intention of going back, you can skip those steps.

The following 2 commands wipe the flash off of the card.

megarec -writesbr 0 empty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0

Then reboot and the card should show with sas2flsh in DOS. I think I still have my collection of files to do this, and could share them with you.

Cheers!

 

[nthu9280]

Dos sas2flsh from P14 or before should work after
megarec -cleanflash <controller#>

I had come across a post that
megarec -writesbr <sbrfile> <controller#>
was needed after cleanflash (not before). I've always done it before the cleanflash.


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[Black6spdZ]

procedure worked fine on my 9271-4i and adapter is recognized by both megarec and sas2flsh but the damn buzzer will not shut off now! anyone run into this?

 

[vanfawx]

@Black6spdZ Yup, I did. I mentioned it earlier in this thread, but I physically removed the buzzer when I converted my 9271-8i.

 

[Black6spdZ]

OK, just wanted to make sure there wasn't a flash problem before I do the same and remove it