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I'm having problems flashing IT firmware to my Dell H200 card on my SuperMicro X9SCM. The card identifies itself as an Internal Tape Adapter instead of a Perc H200. Here's what I've tried:
- Boot to DOS, use LSI's sas2flsh.exe from the P16 firmware to try to erase the firmware. "ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program" http://mycusthelp.info/LSI/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?inc=7466 says that motherboards with EFI/UEFI bios have limited optionROM and suggests to use a different motherboard or try the EFI sas2flash.efi utility instead. I don't have any other motherboards available.
- Boot to X9SCM's EFI Shell, use LSI's sas2flash.efi from the Installer P16 for EFI. Successfully erase firmware with "sas2flash -o -e 6", but when I try to write the P16 or P07 firmware 2118it.bin, I end up with a firmware fault, fault code D04. Managed to go back to the Dellized firmware A10. But despite checking that the 6GBPSAS.FW file came from the SAS non-Raid section, a subsequent sas2flash -list reports that the card is in IR mode. I've also tried the Dellized A08 firmware that Stanza recommended here, and still remained in IR mode.
- Attempted to flash the LSI 2118it.bin without first erasing, and it reports that it is unable to flash IT firmware over IR firmware.
- Googled some forum posts which suggest that LSI has removed the ability to cross-flash firmwares in later versions of the sas2flash.efi utility. The P12 version is known to work, but cannot be downloaded from the LSI website any more because it was quarantined by LSI's antivirus. Somebody managed to find the P13 version and posted it on mediafire, but the file is no longer available there. On the LSI website, only P16, P15 and P05 EFI installers are available. P16 and P15 both refuse to cross-flash. P05's sas2flash.efi seems to be too old and has a flashing error.
So I'm currently stuck.
1. Anyone knows why the non-RAID 6GBPSAS.FW flashes successfully but still leaves me with an IR mode controller?
2. Does anyone have a P10-P13 sas2flash.efi, or one that can cross-flash?
3. I was planning to connect individual disks in ZFS format to IT-mode controller, and to use snapraid to generate parity on separate disks. Given that I'm not going to use zfs mirror or zraid modes, would there be any loss if I just left the controller in IR mode and attached JBOD?
Greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed.
- Boot to DOS, use LSI's sas2flsh.exe from the P16 firmware to try to erase the firmware. "ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program" http://mycusthelp.info/LSI/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?inc=7466 says that motherboards with EFI/UEFI bios have limited optionROM and suggests to use a different motherboard or try the EFI sas2flash.efi utility instead. I don't have any other motherboards available.
- Boot to X9SCM's EFI Shell, use LSI's sas2flash.efi from the Installer P16 for EFI. Successfully erase firmware with "sas2flash -o -e 6", but when I try to write the P16 or P07 firmware 2118it.bin, I end up with a firmware fault, fault code D04. Managed to go back to the Dellized firmware A10. But despite checking that the 6GBPSAS.FW file came from the SAS non-Raid section, a subsequent sas2flash -list reports that the card is in IR mode. I've also tried the Dellized A08 firmware that Stanza recommended here, and still remained in IR mode.
- Attempted to flash the LSI 2118it.bin without first erasing, and it reports that it is unable to flash IT firmware over IR firmware.
- Googled some forum posts which suggest that LSI has removed the ability to cross-flash firmwares in later versions of the sas2flash.efi utility. The P12 version is known to work, but cannot be downloaded from the LSI website any more because it was quarantined by LSI's antivirus. Somebody managed to find the P13 version and posted it on mediafire, but the file is no longer available there. On the LSI website, only P16, P15 and P05 EFI installers are available. P16 and P15 both refuse to cross-flash. P05's sas2flash.efi seems to be too old and has a flashing error.
So I'm currently stuck.
1. Anyone knows why the non-RAID 6GBPSAS.FW flashes successfully but still leaves me with an IR mode controller?
2. Does anyone have a P10-P13 sas2flash.efi, or one that can cross-flash?
3. I was planning to connect individual disks in ZFS format to IT-mode controller, and to use snapraid to generate parity on separate disks. Given that I'm not going to use zfs mirror or zraid modes, would there be any loss if I just left the controller in IR mode and attached JBOD?
Greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed.