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Anyone at all? Here is the solution: I cut a sliver of black 3M electrical tape wide enough to cover signal traces on the card slot edge connector over pins B5 and B6 on one side of the edge connector. I put a bit of crazy glue on the non-gold area at the bottom of the edge connector to help hold the tape in place as the card is inserted and let it dry for a few hours. I installed the card in the first x16 slot closest to the CPU and also have a supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 in the second x16 slot. I used the latest LSI SAS2008 win2k8 x64 drivers and the card is identified as a "Dell 6gbps SAS HBA" under device manager. Kudos to this guy: http://yannickdekoeijer.blogspot.com/2012/04/modding-dell-perc-6-sas-raidcontroller.html I did not disable on-board video and am using that since this is a media server and not a workstation as well.

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I purchased a pair of Dell h310's for my primary and backup home media servers. I flashed both of them with IT firmware from Dell on my Asus A8N-SLI board successfully. One of them went into an x16 slot of the backup which is based on an eVGA 680i LT mobo. It works fine. The other is going into my primary server which is based on a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H motherboard. When installed in either x16 slot and powered on, the system just beeps. The previous card is was a SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 and was working fine in this board. I have tried reflashing this card with and without both the DOS and UEFI BIOS code. The card does the same thing in either x16 slot. I just get a series of beeps and the system powers down and back up again and continues to beep. Any ideas anyone?

I have a couple of home Media servers. One based on a Gigabyte Z77 i3-3220 CPU and the other is the backup based on an old eVGA 680i LT intel Q6600 CPU. I have been using a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 for a few years and it does support 3+ TB drives with the latest drivers. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1324649/3tb-drives-and-supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8/30 http://www.hdsentinel.com/driver/marvell_64xx_windows_4.0.0.1200.zip I have also started buying up PCI x8 cards based on the LSI SAS2008 chip So far I have Purchased 2 dell Perc H310 cards and flashed them with Dell IT firmware for simple HBA use 2 other popular cards are the IBM ServeRAID M1015 and Dell Perc H200 which are almost identical to each other and the LSI 9240-8i/LSI 9211-8i cards. There is tons of info available about flashing the M1015, Perc H200 and H310 to the latest IR and IT firmwares on these forums and via Google search Do a search on eBay for the above SAS cards. They are all PCI x8 6mbps dual SAS port cards and work well with the 8 drive SATA forward fanout cables. Drivers can be downloaded directly from LSI for most every major desktop and server OS. Prices range from about $50 with the average being $75 to $95 for the cards. Good deals are out there, just keep looking. I got my two Perc H310's for $50 each and plan on getting 2 more soon. I will likely retire the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 eventually as not much is being done with further driver development of this older card.

Ok. I had no luck with the LSI P16 firmware on the Perc h310 but I did manage to get the Dell HBA firmware to flash. Dell firmware: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails?driverId=YJ78T&fileId=3203984450#OldVersion SASHBA_Firmware_6GBPS-SAS-HBA_07.03.06.00_A10_ZPE.exe I used this pack of tools: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-sas2008-lsi92409211-firmware-files/ and created a DOS USB Flash boot drive and put MegaRec.exe and sbrempty.bin on it along with the contents of SASHBA_Firmware_6GBPS-SAS-HBA_07.03.06.00_A10_ZPE.exe from Dell I booted my Asus A8N-SLI with the Perc h310 in the 2nd PCI Express x16 slot and a PCI MX400 video card. I had everything but the sata controller and USB turned off in the Mobo BIOS. At the C:\ prompt I entered: megacli -AdpAllInfo -aAll to find the SAS address (be ready to hit the pause/break key as it scrolls) Now to wipe the card megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin megarec -cleanflash 0 then I programmed the firmware: sas2flsh -o -f 6gbpsas.fw I did not need boot time BIOS access so I went right to programming the SAS address sas2flsh -o -sasadd 590b1cxxxxxxxxx I restarted the machine and entered: sas2flsh -list This showed of course there was no BIOS installed on the card. At this point I am almost ready to install the card. I searched around and came up with smallish 40 or 50mm PWM fan and attached it to the Perc h310 heatsink with a couple course thread machine screws. I installed the card in my Win 7 x64 Ultimate backup media server. Win7 already had drivers but I went to LSI and got their latest here: http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/Download-Results.aspx?productcode=P00049&assettype=Firmware&component=Storage%20Component&productfamily=Host%20Bus%20Adapters&productname=LSI%20SAS%209211-8i I used these: LSImpt_SAS2_Windows7_Windows_Server_2008_R2_P16.zip All is good again. I am getting 120MB transfers between Movie drives in the same machine vs. the dismal 28MB/sec transfers I got using a couple Silicon Image 3114 PCI adapters. Yay!!!

Can Dell Perc h310 be flashed with LSI 2008 P16 firmware or does it need to be flashed with Dell's HBA IT firmware? I have both firmwares, instructions and all the tools and files I have collected from this site, dell, LSI, etc. ready to put on a bootable USB DOS stick and flash it once my card arrives in the mail this afternoon. I found a nice compilation of tools here: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-sas2008-lsi92409211-firmware-files/ The Dell firmware I have is 07.03.06.00 A10 The LSI package is 9211_8i_Package_P16_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows I had many issues trying to get an LSI card to work in an eVGA Classified 3 x58 motherboard 3 years ago because their BIOS and the LSI BIOS uses the same option ROM address space. My plan is to find another system I have that is not a tweaked out overclocker board and use that to flash with. I have some simpler Z68, Z77, B75, 680i LT etc. boards I could use flash. Any advice on this card would be helpful. thanks