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WoooHOOO, I might need to delay Happy Hour to try this!

fsx: ? Eff Ess ex colon .. ?

When I booted to the EFI interface, there was a list of drives(?). Following this instruction " Select your drive by typing "FSx" with x being the drive letter of your USB drive. e.g. FS0, FS1" got me "unknown command" etc. So I was not able to access the needed files on the stick to accomplish anything. I will note that, using the boot USB instructions/files included with the download gave me a few "overwrite/don't overwrite" options when I unzipped the files to the already-prepared DOS boot stick. Should there have been any overwrites?

Thanks. I tried the DOS method again and got one of the BATs to work. Unfortunately, it was the one that wiped the ROM of the card. Doh! So I am looking forward to getting back at this task! Jeff

I used the info/files in your "latest" update. UEFI USB got me a UI I didn't recognize, so I changed the boot to non-UEFI. That got me a failed procedure, so I was going to try the UEFI method. I was able to boot to the EFI interface ... now I need to read what I need to do when there. madberg's post(s) lead me to maglin's. Deeper down the rabbit hole I go ...

OK, alrighty, to recap (and make sure I understand, I download the latest toolset from this entry " Update on 17.04.2017, v4 <--- this is the latest, use this one! "? That creates the boot USB ...? I already have the P20 download from Broadcom/Avago, so I am ready to read and follow the READMEFIRST at this point? Jeff

Maybe I have read too much. Between madberg's thread and the downloaded SAS2Flash Utility Guide, my head hurts ... and I still have no clear path to flashing my 9211-8i to IT mode. Which is the best/simplest ... boot to Linux Live and run the utility, boot to DOS 6.22 (if I remember how) and run the utility or boot to something else and run the utility? Failing all else, I have a Win 7 x64 box nearby with an open PCIe 3.0 x16 slot ... Sorry for being dense. I rarely have this much difficulty grokking new stuff. Jeff

Coupla questions. If the answer is "read more of this thread" I will do it! Otherwise ... The files on the first page or so of this thread for my LSI SAS9211-8i are from 2011. Any reason I shouldn't use the current files (from 2016 I think)? The read me notes mention Linux capatablilty, yet the O/S' talked about are Windoze and MacOS. Is there an EASY way to flash the BIOS from my unRAID installation or, perhaps better yet, can't I boot into Linux live with a USB stick and flash? I didn't see any description to do that, though I might have 'dozed off with all of the Windoze talk. Jeff

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Where can I find the URL for this plugin?

Um, and for someone that doesn't speak "command line" I could attach it to a PC and boot into PartEd? Jeff

Is there a way to partition an unassigned device from UD or unRAID?