Deke The Geek

Whew, what a thread! Thanks to OP and all who post here, but I've been unable to resolve my issue, so here goes: I own four (4) LSI branded 9201-16e HBAs, and have been using two of them for a couple of years without incident. I was able to flash them (~4 mins IIRC) to P20 firmware without incident. The other two have just been sitting on a shelf awaiting their time in the sun 🙂 So I got my FreeDOS USB ready and started down a path to hell I've been on for the past couple days LOL sas2flsh -o -list output: Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2116_1(B1) Controller is not operational. A firmware download is required. Enter firmware file name or quit to exit: When I offer the P20 fw file, I get: Firmware Image has a Valid Checksum. Firmware Image compatible with Controller. Valid NVDATA Image found. Valid Initialization Image verified. Valid Bootloader Image verified. Chip is in FAULT state. Attempting Host Boot... ERROR: Firmware Host Boot failed ! Due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to process Commands. Exiting SAS2Flash. Attempts to execute the flash command directly (sas2flsh -o -f 9201-16E.BIN) gives same error message. Attempts to wipe card (sas2flsh -o -e 6 or any other number for that matter) result in same I've tried sas2flsh v7, v16, and v20. megarec commands fail as this is an LSI branded card Is there any hope for my cards? I have two like this... TIA EDIT: FYI, I've also tried on two different systems, both of which are able to flash the other two cards 2nd EDIT: I've tried the above commands with v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v13-5, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, and v20, all freshly downloaded from LSI website today. It doesn't appear to be an issue with the wrong version or anything... unless there are tools I'm not using that can fix this I may have a couple of useless cards 😕