Tullip

I have the card working with Lsi fw 19 and bios for some days - I used Fireball3 usb files and the only change I did was to flash the 6GBPSAS.FW together with the mptsas2.rom in the same folder. After that I could upgrade to whatever lsi fw and rom I wanted - no more nvdata version mismatch. Everything seems to work as it should exept for one litte feature that I do not know is supposed to work on the 9211-8i. I have a test setup with the 9211-8i and the progress with background initialization is as expected taking several hours - now i want to use fast initialization as my final setup will use 4TB drives. As you can see fast initialization is greyd out and not possible to activate, even though I have a virtual drive the drive is not shown or an option.Fast initialization is not an option in virtual drive properties either - also, if I setup raid in bios there is no option there either. Downgraded to P9 did not make any change, used several different megaraid storage managers in windows but option is not working. Wondering it it has anything to with the device id class the card has now, it's listed as sas controller not raid controller as the H310 was. If anyone has an original 9211-8i I will be grateful if they could check this on their card.

I'm using the correct bios/fw but I do notice that flashing to ir is a problem comparing to flashing to it - yes I am trying older version of sas2flsh too. Do you know what the oldest sas2flsh fileversion is ?

Yes, it's quite up to date but remember the H310 is limited to 25 queue depth in firmware - Avagos firmware is set up for 600. Can't find it now but I read a site that showed a few different fw differences between these cards and the Lsi/Avago is the prefered fw. An update, I managed to flash P16 It and bios and got rid of Nvdata version mismatch but I cant flash the ir as it complains I can't write ir over it fw. Not giving up yet. Also, added the original Dell Precision H310 serial boot rom for your collection + a picture showing Dell H310 on the left and Lsi 9211 on the right with device id/subsystem info. Sbr name changed to txt. DellPrecisionH310.TXT

I choose Avago's firmware as it is holds more functions and has been updated lately - still trying different versions. Thanks

Did not try that, following that I'm still using the It firmware and not Ir firmware as I need bios to enable raid.

Why did you do this? AFAIK, the package holds all files to get you to LSI firmware P19. If you substitute something you will have to use the corresponding flash utility (sas2flsh). Btw. we found out, that you can stay with the DELL IT firmware and run unRAID. It is not really necessary to flash LSI firmware. I changed that because I want the Ir firmware not the It firmware - I want to be able to use the card's bios to set up raid.

Is there a H320 or is this a typo? Before flashing the LSI (Pxx) firmware you have to flash the DELL IT firmware! Did you do this successfully? H320 was a typo - I corrected it. Yes, I flash the Dell It firmware first and I can do it successfully - I will attach flashlog for this job and pictures for what it looks like after Dell It flash. My sas address is 590b11xxx - do I perhaps have to change it to a Lsi address ? FLASHLOG.TXT

Got hold of a Dell H310 that I'm trying to flash to Lsi with ir firmware - problem is that I get a Nvdata mismatch, see picture. If I use FireBall3 usb boot files and I changed the bat files to 2118ir.bin but it fails when going to Lsi P7 bios with the mismatch error in bios. If i flash to P16 I get the 8802 fault code. Anyone know how to solve this ? Any help will do - Thanks FLASHLOGP16.TXT