[LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes]

1 hour ago, Squid said:

Shot in the dark, but you can try this

http://yannickdekoeijer.blogspot.com/2012/04/modding-dell-perc-6-sas-raidcontroller.html

Thanks but already tried that and no Joy, I've tried on multiple PCI gen 2 and gen 3 systems (all Intel ) and PCI gen seems to be the deciding factor(or DDR 2 VS 3)  (even flashing the bios through all the available versions  doesn't work) 

[LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes]

I recently got my hands on 2 SAS3041 Cards, they're both PCIe Gen 2 cards that only support<2tb drives and 4 SATA/sas drives per card. The chips are LSI1064E B1 and LSI1064 BE (flashed to 6.34 bios and IT mode) my issue is that the B1 chip will not detect /boot in any PCIE gen 3.0 machine but the B3 chip works fine. Has anyone Else experienced something similar? (There was a old thread about a DELL card that uses the same B1 chip where covering B5 andB6 pins solved the issue but it's not working for me.