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Do I have to follow all other steps (FreeDOS before and after EFI) or can I boot right away to EFI mode and do the single command?

At the moment I am trying to downgrade to P16, but before I start, I checked the steps and I think I will have here a problem: sas2hax -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom I do have the P16-version of 2118it.bin, but I don't have the P16-version of mptsas2.rom At the moment, the card has a running P20 on it, but I want to try if the SATA-150 drives work with P16.

In another forum a user reports, that above P16 SATA1-Speed-Drives aren't detected. That explains why my old Fujitsu setup worked (not flashed at all). Doesn't bother me except the time I've invested, since the old 2,5 drives are test-drives to learn about ZFS.

I now tried something different: I plugged my boot SSD to the HBA and *drumroll* it works. Then I though, okay maybe some of the SATA ports will do something weird. But they didn't: it doesn't depend on where I plug the SSD to (SAS string 1 or SAS string 2), it is always shown and my systems also can boot from it. This leaves me head-scratching. The harddrives aren't these fancy shucked WDs, but old Hitachis from passed away laptops: .) HDD 1: HTS721010G9SA00 (SATA/150, 7200 rpm, 100 GB) - doesn't work .) HDD 2: HTS542516K9SA00 (SATA/150, 5400 rpm, 160 GB) - doesn't work .) SDD 1: CT525MX300SSD1 (SATA/600, 525 GB) - works I did a quick research, seems that SATA/150 drives aren't supported.

I did this step multiple times, took the A11 file as well as the A21 file (sticker says A21). First I tried if with the A21 file. Still no success.

I don't have my initial SBR, since I setup the USB drive with a fresh install of FreeDOS. How do I flash a different SBR? I just made the steps from page 1.

Hello, I followed the instructions from page 1 and got my Fujitsu D2607-8i card flashed to v20. Flashing went fine, but since I have flashed the card, no drives are recognized. The weird thing is: my mainboard has a SAS-connection too and my two plugged 2,5 drives are recognized. But if I plug the cable to the Fujitsu card (no matter which port), no drive is recognized. I use this cable https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001HC4NDA and the the two SAS-connections of the Fujitsu TS140S2 workstation (build in cage). When I open the BIOS menu with ctrl + c, I see one adapter (SAS9211-8i) and FW revision 20.00.07.00-IT with status enabled. In the submenu I have enabled BIOS & OS. When I want to look at the SAS topology, I see nothing, so no enclosure. Since I don't have a second mainboard, I'm pretty clueless. My first guess where the cables, but this would be pretty strange, since the cage of the case doesn't work with the card too. Before flashing to IT mode (with the old Fujitsu firmware) the drives where recognized. I need IT mode for TrueNAS, so there is no plan B for me.