lasic Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Recently I got 4TB SAS drive for free but I didn't have SAS controller. So log story short I ended up with BM M5015 Megaraid 9260-8i from Amazon. It was detecting the drive but I've tried a hundred methods (webbios, megacli, storcli, MSM) to create VD generally with no success. So the next idea was to cross flash it to something with IT mode. So I wrote 256 byte sbrempty.bin and cleared flash with megarec (both with success status but with warning about io base address high but I failed with the next step which is flashing new firmware with sas2flash.esi (version 5, 15, 20). Neither version of sas2flash is not detecting the adapter (megarec still does) so I cant flash anything to it. What should I do next? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Pretty sure the 9260-8i can't be flashed to IT mode, you should by a non MegaRAID model, like the 9211-8i. Quote Link to comment
lasic Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 I was trying to flash this firmware (https://mywiredhouse.net/blog/flashing-lsi-2208-firmware-use-hba/) but it doesn't matter right now as I can't (and wasn't be able to) flash anything to it (sas2flash is not detecting any controller). Quote Link to comment
SimonF Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Are you booting legacy or uefi as process is diff for uefi Quote Link to comment
lasic Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Legacy for megarec, Uefi for sas2flash (as legacy version has problem with PAL commands). Quote Link to comment
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