My LSI card is on it's way so I read your situation in case I ran into it too, so take this info with a grain of salt. But I did a quick search on your issue and found an old post on a FreeBSD site that sounded similar but on a 9211-8i card. What seemed to help them was:
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"Feb 23, 2013 #10
On the LSI support page - LSI 9211-8i - go for firmware menu. You can download firmware which comes with SAS2Flash Utility Quick Reference Guide. Look at page 14 for instruction how to erase firmware from HBA. Before pushing different firmware (IT vs IR), current has to be erased. I guess you learned the hard way
I updated my FW from EFI, but it's pretty much the same procedure."
9210-8i stuck in RESET State
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My LSI card is on it's way so I read your situation in case I ran into it too, so take this info with a grain of salt. But I did a quick search on your issue and found an old post on a FreeBSD site that sounded similar but on a 9211-8i card. What seemed to help them was:
Might be something to look at?