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I have solved my cross flashing issue. But not after my favorite mainboard brand Gigabyte disappointed me.
I learned how easy it is to make a USB pendrive EFI bootable. Just drop this binary into that flash drive FAT's root directory and rename it to <shellx64.efi>.
Also, from Roderick W. Smith's site rodsbook.com I learned that Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI implementation is one of the worst that Mr Smith has encountered. So, if you have a Gigabyte mainboard forget EFI Shell, it probably won't work. It has cost me several hours today.
I eventually solved it by inserting the LSI 9240-8i into the PCI Express x16 slot of an Asrock H81 Pro BTC mainboard. (A mainboard I almost forgot I still own. A relic from my scrypt mining days.) After entering the BIOS and going to the last menu "Exit", I selected the bottom option "Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device". It gave me a <SHELL> prompt. I selected my USB pendrive by typing "FS0:". I browsed to the location of my sas2flash.efi, 2118it.bin and mptsas2.rom files and executed the following two commands;
sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom sas2flash -o -sasadd 500605b0xxxxxxxx (replace the xx's with the SAS address from your card)
Identical to BetaQuasi's M1015 Cross flashing instructions except that I used <sas2flash.efi> instead of <sas2flsh.exe>.
Unraid 5.0.5 has identified the card and the attached drives. I'm a happy camper ! ;-)
I stopped using Gigabyte after my first flash Asrock or MSI and nothing else...
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Ordered the LSI 9200-8e and LSI 9201-16e to play with - both SAS 2008 chip based.
Let's see if they can be flashed with the zip package provided in the first post of this thread?!
You can get the latest IT/IR mode firmware directly from LSI. Crossflashing is only for rebranded cards as far as I know....
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I only have supermicro's with 4 trays so one port is no problem for now... + I need IR mode. Not interested in unraid...
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Ok this are the files that made me do a succesfull flash on the D2607 Fujitsu controller (ordered januari 2014 from fujitsu)
http://rapidelectro.be/d2607.tar.gz
!!!FIRST WRITE DOWN YOUR SASADDRESS!!!
and then after starting up in dos I did
megarec -writesbr -o sbrh200.bin
then
megarec -cleanflash -o
end then I used
sas2flash.exe -o -sasadd SASADDRESS -f 182118IR.BIN -b 18mptsas2.rom
This will actually not flash the bios but that's no problem
After that I used the latest flash utility + bios + firmware (P18 in my case) and just did
sas2flash.exe -o -f 2118IR.bin -b mptsas2.rom
everything went well and I was able to go in to the bios and configure my raid without the slow shit from Fujitsu...
Only one port (4 disks) works after this method!
PS.
It took me about 4 days to get this working, making this by far the most expensive 'raid' controller I have ever owned... And it's still a slow peace of shit. I will never ever buy one of this crappy cards and or buy anything from LSI ever again in my life. For twice the amount you get a decent real raid controller from Areca or 3Ware making it even possible to do RAID5/6/50/60 and I will stick with 3Ware and Areca for the rest of my life from now on!
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Run that one too and this one gives 'doesn't support revision (3)" I actually have a revision B2...
I think with the newer revision you may be able to directly flash the newest LSI firmware with the older dell sas2flsh.
Well I actually got past firmware download successful Now reprogramming the adress and see if it works!
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sas2flsh.exe -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 6gbpsas.fw
REM -b mptsas2.rom
also give mfg page 2 error on validation...
did you use the right sas2flsh and firmware? This version worked for me: Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA, v.07.01.24.00, A01
Run that one too and this one gives 'doesn't support revision (3)" I actually have a revision B2...
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You need to follow the right steps to pass the mfg page 2 error barrier.
[*]write down your SAS address
[*]writesbr the h200 sbr.
[*]flash 6gbpsas.fw with the Dell sas2flsh
[*]flash 2118it.bin P7 version
[*]flash 2118it.bin any version
sas2flsh.exe -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 6gbpsas.fw
REM -b mptsas2.rom
also give mfg page 2 error on validation...
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Stupid controller! I have tried following steps more then once with the D2607 with a revision B2 chipset
megarec -writesbr -o empty.bin
megarec -cleanflash -o
reboot
sas2flash.exe (v7) -o -f 2118it.bin (v7) -b mptbiosthingy (v7)
mfg page 2 error
Samething if i do this steps with the sbr200 file
Version p18 is for the record online for download...
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Tried that with the right sbr and I still get mfg page 2 error at dell, P7 en the P16 doesn't work at all.
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d2607-a21 gs 1 Is the one I got and I'm unable to get pass the mfg page 2 error. It is although possible to flash the bios successfully...
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Got myself a version 11 somewhere but that didn't help. I have a D2706 and I keep getting this mfg page 2 error... Tried the -sbr option but that didn't help either...
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Can somebody get me a copy of P12 or P13 sas2flash.efi? Jackasses @ LSI stil didn't fixed the download links and all the other download links are dead...
LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes
in Storage Devices and Controllers
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I just succesfully flashed a H310 to IR mode v 19 without any problems. Actually this card is more than 30 euro's cheaper than the D2607 and after flashing both channels work...