zerrikan1

RMA seems lika a last resort to me (will take 3-4 weeks give or take). So I want to give it a last try with original flash and sbr. Hope that somebody can extract it from his 9211-8i and post it here.

Hi All, I am hoping for some good piece of advice as I am really going crazy with trying to flash my LSI 9211-8i. When it shipped from Hong-Kong it worked perfectly until it stopped recognizing drives connected to PORT-A. I thought (stupid me) that a firmware upgrade will help. It shipped with P11 IR software onboard. I booted to USB DOS and tried to upgrade it to P19 IT from LSI page. After: sas2flsh -o -e 6 I tried sas2flsh -o -f 2118IT.bin -b mptsas2.rom it throwed an error (did not take notice what exacly) and I had to reboot. Since then I tried literaly all methods found on foras on how to flash/crossflash LSI-9211i firmware. MegaRec, MegaOEM, sas2flsh -dos, sas2flash - uefi - nothig works for me. MegaRec can see the card I can -writesbr / -cleanflash but later when I reboot and try to download firmware to the chip (bios, nobios, with -o, w/o -o - you name it) - it displays "Failed to validate Mfg 2 page". I tried almost all P-firmware versions in IT and IR using different sas2flsh versions. Did anybody manage to overcome this issue. I tried in ASUS P5K WS and ASUS P5W DH Delux PCIe-x16 port and in one of the SuperMicro Z77 UEFI. Tried in some HP and Fujitsu-Siemens Workstation at work but there it gave me the infamous PAL error. I would appreciate a piece of advice. Could one of You LSI-9211-8i owners upload its SBR and full flash .ROM file to the forum. I was thinking about fulflashing it with MegaRec instead of trying firmware upgrade with SAS2FLSH. Thanks thanks thanks