M1015 S.O.S.

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I bought two M1015's from ebay. None of my machines will crossflash them. I've tried in dos, efi shell, windows, and linux. One board runs megarec well enough to erase them but none of the boards can run sas2flsh. I get either the PAL error or a message about not being able to find the hba.

I'll have to buy a new board just to crossflash these picky little bastards. Any "guaranteed to work" recommendations from the [H]? I prefer something cheap. I have 755 and 1155 cpus.
 
Just wondering...

With the people that have troubles flashing in certain boards....

Which version of sas2flsh are you using?
The one that comes with the IBM firmware?
The one that comes with the LSI firmware?

Have you tried the opposite brand version?
Or even tried an Older version?

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Just wondering...

With the people that have troubles flashing in certain boards....

Which version of sas2flsh are you using?
The one that comes with the IBM firmware?
The one that comes with the LSI firmware?

Have you tried the opposite brand version?
Or even tried an Older version?

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I tried the sas2flsh in the m1015 cross flash bundle over at servethehome. http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/

I also tried multiple versions downloaded from LSI.

I tried five different boards and none can flash these m1015's. Very disappointing. :(
 
It really depends on the chipset when it comes to flashing, there is a thread around here somewhere with a huge list of which work and which dont.
 
It really depends on the chipset when it comes to flashing, there is a thread around here somewhere with a huge list of which work and which dont.

It's more than just the chipset. The bios is matters too. I've tried boards with Z77, H61, P43, P45, and G31 chipsets with no success. However, there are other boards with these same chipsets that do work.
 
interesting, i dont know of a single person that has failed to flash my cards on more than 1 board.
what models failed for you?
 
I've been successful on boards based on chipsets Z77 and Q45, my G45 based board doesn't work (PAL error).
//Danne
 
I tried about 4 different machines to try to flash these buggers, nothing was working. I finally pulled out an old sempron /880G chipset combination of all things and got it to work.
 
I successfully flashed mine just a month ago on a Gigabyte 990FX UD3 board. I wasn't too worried because I have so many computers to try it in.
 
interesting, i dont know of a single person that has failed to flash my cards on more than 1 board.
what models failed for you?

I don't know all of the models offhand but the chipsets and manufactuers are:

Gigabyte Z77
Biostar Z77
ECS H61
Foxconn G31
Biostar G45

And some friends' machines too...

I tried flashing under "real dos" as well as FreeDOS (supposedly supported by LSI) on all of the motherboards. I tried flashing in Windows on the Biostar Z77 board. I tried flashing under UEFI on both Z77 boards. And finally, I tried flashing under Linux on all boards.

According to LSI, flashing under UEFI is the magic bullet in instances where users get the PAL error. Unfortunately, the UEFI version of sas2flsh always gave me an error stating that it couldn't find the card.

There's another LSI FAQ that says the not finding the card problem is fixed in the latest versions of sas2flsh. It wasn't for me.

To add insult to injury, a number of zips for sas2flsh on LSI's website do not contain the program. There's a placeholder text file that says the program was removed by some worthless Microsoft program because looked like a virus. It didn't happen on my end. I downloaded from Linux.

I successfully flashed mine just a month ago on a Gigabyte 990FX UD3 board. I wasn't too worried because I have so many computers to try it in.

That's what I was thinking too. It didn't work out as well for me.

My advice to anyone thinking of buying an m1015 is to buy the real LSI card if you can afford it. I wish I had. Tearing open every machine I own was not worth the savings.

Failing that, be absolutely sure that you have a guaranteed working motherboard on hand.

Now I'm wondering if my desired "home" for the m1015 will work with the card once it's crossflashed.
 
I flash mine with my x58 ud5. while waiting for the card read some old post about not working in ud5 but mine worked fine
 
In what machine do you ultimately plan to use the M1015 card?

I want to put it on an ECS H61H2-M2 for the time being. Out of all my motherboards, it's the only one able to see the hba before flashing and the only one able to run megarec successfully. Maybe I'll get lucky in this one instance.

If the H61H2-M2 doesn't work I will buy a board that does.
 
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I ran into an issue when attempting to flash it from a SuperMicro X9 board, so i switched it to another ASROCK board flashed and switched it back to my server board.
 
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