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Now I'm quite confused. Did you flash a RS2WC080 or a Dell Perc H310 in the end? When answering your first post I was thinking of a Dell card because the recent posts in this thread referred to the H310 card only. Next time you should clearly point out what you want to do. Due to a misunderstanding like this you could have easily bricked your card when flashing a wrong firmware! Good to hear it worked after all.

In theory it should work. You can try to replace both files in the P16 folder. It's not tested but it should work. EDIT: You can also replace the sas2flsh.exe with the one in sas2flash_dos_rel. They built in an interesting new feature: This will probably solve the ManPage2 error when flashing the FSC D2607. With regard to the changes in P17: From my understanding, the changes in the new version add no benefit for unRAID use.

I wonder if your problem is related to this mod? Have you tried to flash the card in an other board without the tape? The provided versions of sas2flsh should work fine, as we have reports of several successful flashings.

@reddi Understood so far. Just tried the taping mod on the bricked D2607 - no effect. Still stuck @boot. Now I need to find a server board with the "disable OPROM" feature. This might take some time. @Venares Glad that it helped you and I could give something back to this community. It's true, availability of most suggested parts in this forum is a real issue in Europe. Unlike the Supermicro and IBM controllers, the H310 and the D2607 are frequently on ebay in Europe (for reasonable prices).

Just to make sure I understand well. When erasing the controller you used the H200.sbr instead the empty.sbr - right? Would you please be so kind and PM me the H200.sbr I will prepare a package for D2607. Now I'm going to look for a board that allows disabling the option rom... I already thought of applying the taping mod. Maybe that will also give me a chance to flash the D2607 again? Thanks for sharing your xp.

What do you mean? unRAID works with the DELL HBA firmware? You don't need the LSI firmware?

Can't imagine that because after flashing the DELL IT firmware you don't have an IR anymore... But: You have to use the sas2flash that comes with the zip! This version of sas2flash offers to override the VENDOR ID mismatch!

Ah, I see. Maybe you give it a try once more and pay attention what might be wrong.

master.h, can you give more details, where my instructions failed?

No prob, you refer to this thread. No need to move it. To be more specific, you probably refer to this post in this thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg142399;topicseen#msg142399 The conclusion at that point is, that it is not tested! So you were aware of the risk . But if you search this thread, there is a more recent report with a link to the hardforum. Won't help you with the bricked controller but perhaps with the new one? As far as I understood from this it is not necessarily working if you have it running as JBOD. You need a firmware which is supported by the unRAID driver (or vice versa)! Yes, in that post hellbringer flashed it and it seems it's no big deal. He had more problems to get it working in his specific machine. Perhaps you send him a PM and ask for help? @all who were successful in the end: If you finally succeed, it would be nice if you come back and post a step by step tutorial (like the ones you downloaded here) along with the software/tools for the Perc 6/i. It's way better then just reporting "it worked". Perhaps in a couple of days you have to do it again and you'll start over searching the tools again.

It's not necessary for the array to be started but it will help if the first "protection layer" fails. Make sure you have the up to date version (1.13) of preclear. If you still can see your array drives, then you might experience a bug! Be careful not to wipe one of your array disks! Tripe check the serial number of the drive before typing "Yes"!

Sorry siamsquare, but I can't see any of your errors! As far as I understood, bigger drives get automatically aligned but it won't hurt if you use -A anyway.

@siamsquare You should get more familiar with the usage of the preclear script! Read here http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Configuration_Tutorial#Preclear_Hard_Drives Edit: Answer based on the way you spelled the command and the fact, that no error has been posted.

Well, then it's probably bricked. I also learned it the hard way with that FSC D2607. I probably know now how to do it right but I'm out of controllers . (Btw, anyone in here with a Fujitsu Celsius M720 Workstation that has a D2607 controller built in? Mind sharing the S/N of that machine?) I checked your previous posts but I didn't find which instructions you followed that led you so far. There is this thread that reports successful flashing to IT mode. But instructions were from that HardForum site. Didn't check the content although. Which OP do you refer to? Why do you want to try again with Perc 6/i? What is your goal? HBA in IT mode to use with unRAID?

Good to hear that. How many passes did you preclear? You may want to read through this posts if you didn't do already.

Sorry to say this, but it sounds to me as if you're simply trying things out without knowing what you're actually doing. I know it's not easy to find out and understand what's the purpose of each step in the instructions posted here and there. But that's essential if you run into problems and it took me most of the time to find that out. Especially if you have no confirmed working tutorial you should know the background. Ialways have a bad feeling just following some steps without knowing what they will do - but that may be only the engineer in me? Back to topic: From what I learned it is the other way round. First you have to flash the firmware (-f means firmware) sas2flsh -o -f ... In the second step you use (-b means BIOS) sas2flsh -o -b ... Whereas you can skip flashing the BIOS if you only need an HBA in IT mode. Gives you faster boot times. Conclusion: There is no need to have a BIOS to flash the card! You will have to get the right sas2flash to do it. I also experienced that you cannot flash firmware if the ROM is not cleared. sas2flash will not detect the controller! Check the first step here. (Although, last statement is a little bit confusing to me, because when I flashed the H310 I had to flash 3 firmwares consecutively with sas2flash and it worked. But starting with the first flash without clearing didn't work.) If megarec doesn't detect your card anymore there maybe another (bigger) issue? I see you also used MegaCLI...have no xp with that. Perhaps you bricked it? Start over: You should try to get the card cleared and then follow a tutorial which is known to work. And make sure you use the !right! software. Try clearing with the same tools you used most recently. Maybe they recognize the card?

Dell has to flash their firmwares somehow. Can't you flash it with the original Dell firmare?

Did you find this? http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1532772

I think preclear.sh is a great tool to eliminate the drives with instant mortality. But it is not designed to automatically get the right conclusion. Just looking if it delivers SUCCESS or PASSED can fool you! Read this very informative post from RobJ. As soon as there is a little sign of some irregularity be it in the logs or in the course of the preclearing cycle you should use alternative tools to dig deeper. Just get an evidence that allows you to RMA the drive.

May I throw my experience in at this point? Please check this thread. I didn't have time yesterday to attach the logs but they look like yours. The last preclear that I started yesterday morning was "hanging" at 3% with write speeds shown @ 112 MB/s but nothing else happened but the clock running. The syslog is about 33MB. As soon as I have some time (probably next week), I will run the extended SMART diagnostics on this drive and see what comes up. There is also a WD tool for windows I wouldn't put that drive in the server in this condition. Better try the WD diagnostic tools and see what they report. Your lucky that you still can RMA that drive.

After successfully bricking the Fujitsu D2607 by downflashing it I'm proud to be able to contribute to this thread and hereby report: LSI MegaRAID with SAS2008 chipsets 3) DELL Perc H310 as well as H200 Flashed successfully to LSI9211-8i IT (P20) 3TB Drive Support with this card: YES (UPDATE: 5.0Beta7 added 3TB Drive support) Drive Spin Down support: YES (UPDATE: Added as of 5.0Beta7) Drive Temp Readings: YES Toolset_PercH310 to LSIMegaraid.zip (DOS, via bootable usb key) http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/51016808/file.html (for some reason I can't embed the link...) MD5:80174075959fb7d1ff8c6362f7241bfe Update on 06.08.2014 Included the P19 firmware http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/9541812/file.html Update on 01.12.2014 Possible issues with P20 firmware! See this post and this. Update on 23.10.2015 There is an new version of Avago (former LSI) P20 (20.00.04.00) which seems to be OK with unRAID. See this post. Update on 15.09.2015 User opentoe found out that the DELL IT firmware is also working with unRAID. It's your decision what to flash. Flashing DELL firmware is easier and supported by DELL! opentoe's verdict on DELL IT or Avago (former LSI). Update on 07.06.2016 There is a new firmware from Avago. P20.00.07.00 The toolset has been updated accordingly. First impressions. http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/xZKIOHaz/file.html https://www.mediafire.com/?8f82hx4c032a929 MD5: 24f7d428292e00f9dee6f715d8564202 Update on 30.12.2016 Firmware is still P20.00.07.00 Switch to RUFUS for bootdisk creation. Added alternative ways to extract controller info if MegaCli is not working. https://www.mediafire.com/?9cbklh4i1002n23 MD5: 7d90f84c831e8b939c5536d9eb03ba81 Update on 23.02.2017 Firmware is still P20.00.07.00 Uses sas2flsh through the whole process. Tested on a "backflashed" H200, to be confirmed on a stock H200 card and on H310's. Card backup is now dumping the full flash. This can be used to restore the initial condition of the card. Added script for automatic SAS address extraction. No reboot necessary any more. https://www.mediafire.com/?0op114fpim9xwwf MD5: 2fbe3d562846e493714a9e8ac3f15923 Due to missing UEFI environment, no changes nor testing with UEFI shell. Update on 30.03.2017, v2 Firmware is still P20.00.07.00 Spiced up the routines with some checks to automatically select the right tool if one is not working. Tested on a stock H310 as well as a H200 - works for me. Post your experience in the forum. https://www.mediafire.com/?6b77v4s7czluvs2 MD5: 6cb92336ff537aeb838085a028aa6601 Update on 11.04.2017, v3 Firmware is still P20.00.07.00 Added files for use in an EFI environment. Untested due to missing hardware. Post your experience in the forum. https://www.mediafire.com/?9ovj2rxuaf43wv4 MD5: t.b.d. Update on 17.04.2017, v4 <--- this is the latest, use this one! Firmware is still P20.00.07.00 Corrections for EFI environment. Untested due to missing hardware. Post your experience in the forum. https://www.mediafire.com/?py9c1w5u56xytw2 MD5: t.b.d. If you experience the "failed to initialize PAL" error somewhere in step 5, you have to boot from UEFI shell and try again or use another mainboard. See here how to use UEFI shell (Kudos 2 Maglin). Make sure you read and understand the __READMEFIRST.txt before starting! If you experience troubles or something is not clear, don't hesitate to ask for help. You can help improving the howto by doing so. Chances are small but you can brick the controller!

Noticed this thread shortly after posting my results here. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28989.0 Sorry for that but perhaps you can have a look at it?

Still looking for an appropriate HBA. It's not so easy to find one at reasonable prices in Europe/Germany - I envy you guys in the US!. Found a Perc H310 @ebay for about 70€+shipping but would that work? Is it correct, that despite the IT mode that comes with the dell firmware, this controller will not necessarily work with unraid since it is not the LSI firmware? I suppose the driver for this specific firmware is provided by ESXi? So, if I don't want to set up an ESXi, the fact that IT mode is working is not enough. Then one should try the last steps described in this thread: http://forums.servethehome.com/raid-controllers-host-bus-adapters/467-dell-h200-flash-firmware-procedure-dell-servers.html The OP did that with the Perc H200. Doing it with the H310 is an EXPERIMENT!

Yes, that was my last hope. This guy apparently has it working with "unsupported firmware" (LSI 9240 8i???) http://mmurayama.blogspot.de/2013/02/setting-up-jbod-with-fujitsu-d2607-raid.html Now this is really bad news isn't it? :'( :'( :'( :'(...going to search the forums... :'( :'( :'( Edit: Ford Perfect, it's been a while, but I read you also had troubles flashing the M1015. You flashed with I also flashed the LSI firmware with megarec not sas2flash. Would it be possible to flash the IT.rom with megarec instead of sas2flash?

Hi 2 all unraiders! I'm in the process of gathering equipment for an unraid server. I already set up an ASUS M4A87TD EVO with a 140 Sempron and 2GB RAM. Unraid is already running with 3 test drives. Before going live with the big drives I want to make sure to have enough free slots for upgrading because I expect the 5+1 (sata+esata) slots that come with the mobo will soon be fully equipped. After reading this http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg139775#msg139775 I shot myself a Fujitsu D2607 on ebay and yesterday I tried to put it in IT mode with the MEGA firmware. Tried v10 and v11 and it seems it's not possible. I have the same issue as described here (Failed to validate MfgPage2!): http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg137851#msg137851 At that point I turned google on again and found a thread on a german forum. http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f15/lsi-megaraid-und-dell-perc-5-6-sas-sata-pcie-5-a-793769-74.html#post19868191 User tdz2000 states that it is not possible to flash the FSC D2607 with IR/IT firmware. Well, that's what I already learned... But he provides a method to flash the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i firmware. Unfortunately I don't fully understand what he's trying to do in his steps. Any help appreciated! Let me translate it for you: 1. download the firmware from FSC website and run it //purpose not clear 2 me// - reboot - 2. megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin //write an empty.sbr like in the tutorial available in this tread// 3. megarec -cleanflash 0 //delete flash// - reboot - 4. Megarec -writesbr 0 sbrlsi.bin //don't know which sbrlsi.bin to use; he just says: sbrlsi.bin is found with google... :-( ; in fact, I found one file which is suitable for 9260, 9280 a.s.o and I wonder if it will work for 9240 also?; anybody here with a proper sbrlsi.bin? // 5. download firmware for LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i and megarec -m0flash 0 xxxxxxxx.rom - reboot - 6. Megarec -writesbr 0 D2607.bin //write the original Fujitsu SBR else it will "hang up" at boot// 7. MegaOEM -AdpSetSASA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -a0 //write back the card id - will not work with mega.exe; use megaoem.exe (a0 = controller number if there are more than 1)// I had problems in finding the sbrlsi.bin and obviously chose a wrong one because it issued an error but the next step went through (had it all done in a batch file). At that point I had to stop because there was no more time for toying around. Today I have to let him write a new ADAPTERS.TXT to get some more information and make sure it's a LSI. Now I'm wondering if I can make use of the card without the dedicated IT mode? What problems should I expect? br Fireball