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  1. Did you get any luck with this? I too have a 9211-8i with a bad flash and need the full rom so I can try a different flash method to bypass the Mfg Page 2 error...
  2. Nope, trying to avoid that. The card was fine until I tried flashing it. Just to reiterate my earlier post, can anyone provide me with a full flash dump from their 9211? i.e. "sas2flash -uflash flash.bin"?
  3. Thanks for making so much effort on my behalf! Failed at the first hurdle again - failed to validate when flashing the dell firmware after the reboot.
  4. I figured I was being advised to go via Dell, so I used the "5_DELL_IT" directory - this failed as usual. I then figured I may as well try the others, so then restarted, but instead chose the LSI directories, first 5_LSI_P7, then restarted again and chose 5_LSI_P16.
  5. I gave this a go, and sadly, same error Thanks though!
  6. No, realised that will never work - you can't fit a quart into a pint pot ...so been trying various combinations of downloaded 9211 firmwares (both IT and IR), as well as the firmware I backed up before I started (which seems to be p14, IIRC).
  7. The SBR option that was added does not work for me - ironically it fails with the error I'm trying to correct!
  8. The boot disk I was using previously was a standard msdos affair, I converted it to the LSI one as they requested. As expected, made no difference whatsoever.
  9. Of sas2flash? I have many, many versions. 8,14,15,16,17,18,19 are the ones I know I've tried.
  10. Ok. I tried LSI support giving them all the details and they just told me to use sas2flash ...when I told them I (as expected) got the exact same error, they suggested I try the bootable USB they offer. Which is freedos and....sas2flsh. So I get the same error. *sigh* There are options on sas2flash that let you upload and download a full image of the entire flash (sas2flash -o -dflash flash.bin firmware.bin to download it to the controller, and sas2flash -uflash flash.bin to upload it to a file). Could anyone with an actual LSI 9211-8i please try grabbing their flash and placing it somewhere I can download it to see if that will reinitialise my NVDATA (which seems to be the problem)? LSI just say to RMA the controller, but a) it's brand new (was still sealed) so just needs reflashing correctly, b) I'd like to try and save the hassle and costs of postage back to them, and c) I bought it from a seller in Hong Kong on eBay...so warranties are likely to get somewhat complicated as when I put the serial into LSI's checker Chinese contact details come up.
  11. Thanks for replying. On my target PC I've been using a dos-bootable stick for megarec, and uefi shell for sas2flash, but on my old PC I can run sas2flsh.exe from the dos mode fine. I get the same errors both way though.
  12. Apologies for the delay in replying - been a hectic week and I've had to park this. I'm happy with either mode, really. The card shipped in IR mode, so I'm happy enough for it to end up there again.
  13. It's been a stressful day for me - I recently bought a LSI 9211 with a view to cross flashing it to a 9240 as I'd read many similar reports (including some here, which is why I'm posting) of people doing the other way with little trouble. - Alas, it wasn't to be, which is quite annoying a it was the same price as the 9240, but had its connectors in a more convenient orientation for my case, so I got it solely for that reason! Long story short, the flash failed as the flash chip I have is only 4MB, and it seems the 9240 requires 8MB. So I've tried to get the card back to how it was, but I can't for the life of me get it to flash successfully. I backed up my existing firmware, bios, and sbr. My procedure has been generally: megarec -cleanflash 0 megarec -writesbr 0 backupsbr.bin <reboot> sas2flash -f backupfw.bin (then -b backupbios.rom, but I gave up trying to get the bios back until I had the firmware working) ...it initially succeeds, but then fails at the end with the error about Mfg Page 2 mismatching. If I try flashing the bios, then it also initially succeeds with the flash, but then fails t the end when updating the "version page 3", or similar (as I say, I stopped bothering with it as the fw is more important). Any ideas on how I can flash this back to normal? The card came with firmware P14 IR on it, if that helps any. I've tried using sas2flash's new "-sbr" option, which sounds like it's designed to fix my firmware problem, but it just doesn't seem to work - just fails the same way.