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bhm.01... You are correct in all counts (read below).
staticlag on the other hand you are way off (but thanks for the attempt). You even missed the problem at all. I never said about booting from the disks, I never said I didn't find ctrl-c or anything.
Plus the instructions were pretty...
There is also a #4 I don't want to admit.
Some more serious incompatibility of my motherboard and the card...
But this at least has a small percentage, as the card itself doesn't seem to detect the disks.
It's not that it detects them and doesn't pass them to the BIOS (or OS).
New LSI "forward"...
OK update.
I flashed the card back to stock M1015 firmware (latest version).
NO disks detected again.
One thing I noticed is that (like in 9211-8i IT mode WITH mptsas2 bios installed), I cannot invoke configuration screen (ctrl-h for M1015, ctrl-c for 9211-8i), without failure, but...
Thank you all for your reply. Only forum I got a reply (from three I posted)...
If you mean this step:
sas2flsh -o -sasadd 500605b0xxxxxxxx (x= numbers for SAS address)
...then I definitely did that (with numbers from the paper tag on the card).
Hope so. I ordered a couple of extras...
OK I (think I) successfully flashed my newly acquired IBM M1015 to LSI9211-8i in IT mode.
It was a bit difficult as I needed to find a motherboard that could see the card AND flash it.
The first I tried saw the card, but froze when trying to query the card before flashing.
Next motherboard...