LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

[f4n4tyk]

Hi all can i pelase ask that controler 

1* HP DL380e Gen8 P420 - 512MB FBWC

2* HP Smart Array P420 G8 - FH PCIe-x8 RAID

3* Adaptec ASR-51245 - FH PCIe-x8

 

can be flashed to TI ? to use normal disk on system windows or not posible ? i try to find but dont se any bios for it.

 

That controler are 3gb/s so understound accept disk under 4tb ?

Edited June 19, 2021 by f4n4tyk

[uiblog.it]

Hi everyone I'm new here, I have 2 LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i 8-Port PCI-E 6Gb/s SATA/SAS Raid Controller Card, I read that to be used correctly with FreeNAS / unraid they need to be set in IT MODE. To date I have not found information on how to do or if at least it is possible or not to flash these cards in IT MODE. Can you help me out. Thank you.
 

Edited June 28, 2021 by uiblog.it

[JorgeB]

3 hours ago, uiblog.it said:

MegaRAID 9261-8i

AFAIK those MegaRAID controllers can't be flashed to IT mode, look for HBAs, like the 9211-8i, 9207-8i, etc, no MegaRAID models, except the 9240-8i, that one can be flashed.

[AlexanderKH]

Hello everyone!

Is any chance work with drives greater 2Tb on SAS3801E? Any FW upgrade needed?

Thanks for replays.

[JorgeB]

48 minutes ago, AlexanderKH said:

Is any chance work with drives greater 2Tb on SAS3801E? Any FW upgrade needed?

Not as far as I known, they sometimes work when used with a compatible SAS expander.

[Stardust9876]

I'm currently preparing my LSI Logic LSI00301 Host Bus Adapter (SAS 9207-8i) for Unraid.

 

The Config Utility is showing me: SAS9207-8i FW Revision: 20.00.00.00-IT

 

I saw that the latest version on the Broadcom HP is:

9207-8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows
Package_P20_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows
Version: 20.00.07.00

 

The card is currently in a Windows 10 PC, with no HDDs attached. Can I use the included sas2flash_win_x64_rel and the corresponding flash file from the HBA_9207_8i_IT Folder to just upgrade it in Windows?

[JorgeB]

25 minutes ago, Stardust9876 said:

Can I use the included sas2flash_win_x64_rel and the corresponding flash file from the HBA_9207_8i_IT Folder to just upgrade it in Windows?

Yes.

[ogxbox]

I can confirm that 3Tb Sata drives do work on my LSi 1068e flashed to IT mode... I'm going to try and flash back to IR and see if it picks up a Sata 3Tb on IR firmware!!! Should in theory.

[trurl]

3 minutes ago, ogxbox said:

I can confirm that 3Tb Sata drives do work on my LSi 1068e flashed to IT mode... I'm going to try and flash back to IR and see if it picks up a Sata 3Tb on IR firmware!!! Should in theory.

Why? IT mode is the correct one to use for Unraid.

[Squid]

1 hour ago, ogxbox said:

I can confirm that 3Tb Sata drives do work on my LSi 1068e flashed to IT mode

Are you sure?  Drives will work, but unless I'm mistaken they'll only be detected as max 2.2TB

[PerssonNiklas]

Did I just brick my new IBM M1015?

 

I have a bootable freedos stick made in Rufus, and with all the files on it.
The card starts, get into Dos and do the megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin and I get No MR controller(s) found.

 

Now the card is dead, no leds, heat sink is cold. Not seeing any signs of the card in bios or dos like I did before. Megarec -adplist gives me nothing.

 

Is the card trash now or can it be salvaged? 

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by PerssonNiklas

[Cybernaut]

Just successfully flashed my PERC H310.  Thanks for all the work here.

A couple tips for the wiki - 

• On my ASUS Prime B360M-C, I had change the USB configuration to emulate hard drive to the USB to boot correctly in FreeDOS
• To switch device in UEFI Shell is actually FSX: (took me a while to figure out the colon is required)
• Maybe specify that you need to run the X.nsh from UEFI Shell, as .bat & .exe won't run (I didn't see it anywhere, but eventually figured it out.

I apologize if anything's already been covered.  I didn't read every post! 

-cheers

[decibelio99]

Hi all,

yesterday I flashed a LSI 9211-81 with P20 firm on IT mode.
Unraid detects the card but I can't see any hard drive, I don't know if cable is wrong or the card doesn't work with SAS hard disks of 4TB ( I have 2)
I have connected one of the hard disk sata to the card and reconizes it without problems, So I think that cable isn't correct,
Please, could you say me a cable that works with sas hard disks?
Thanks in advance.

[ChatNoir]

5 hours ago, decibelio99 said:

I don't know if cable is wrong

The cable description seems OK.

 

5 hours ago, decibelio99 said:

or the card doesn't work with SAS hard disks of 4TB

Would seem weird that a SAS controller do not work with SAS drives and I do not think that the chip is old enough not to work with 4TB drives.

 

Silly question, but you did plug SATA power to the SAS connector ? (we had the issue lately on the forum )

[JorgeB]

16 hours ago, decibelio99 said:

the card doesn't work with SAS hard disks of 4TB ( I have 2)

You should post the diagnostics, sometimes SAS devices come with a non standard sector size or are write protected.

[decibelio99]

11 hours ago, ChatNoir said:

The cable description seems OK.

 

Would seem weird that a SAS controller do not work with SAS drives and I do not think that the chip is old enough not to work with 4TB drives.

 

Silly question, but you did plug SATA power to the SAS connector ? (we had the issue lately on the forum )

Silly question, but you did plug SATA power to the SAS connector ? (we had the issue lately on the forum

Yes, yes,😀  I know that drivers need DC for working. I am reading that threat
I am going to switch on the opt rom.
Thanks for the answer.

[decibelio99]

58 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

You should post the diagnostics, sometimes SAS devices come with a non standard sector size or are write protected.

Here they are

molino21-diagnostics-20220223-0832.zip

[JorgeB]

Everything looks normal with the HBA, it's being initialized correctly, but nothing being detected, so likely a device/cable problem, also make sure the disk is spinning up, some won't if there's 3.3v on the connector.

[decibelio99]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Everything looks normal with the HBA, it's being initialized correctly, but nothing being detected, so likely a device/cable problem, also make sure the disk is spinning up, some won't if there's 3.3v on the connector.

This is one of the drives and the power supply. I go to the Seagate page for information.

Normally, how much power do a sas need?

Thanks

 

[JorgeB]

12 minutes ago, decibelio99 said:

Normally, how much power do a sas need?

It's not a question of how much power, it's a feature on some drives:

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/collateral/tech-brief/tech-brief-western-digital-power-disable-pin.pdf

 

Though yours is an older model so probably not affected, do you hear it spining up and is the drive detected in the LSI BIOS?

[decibelio99]

12 minutes ago, decibelio99 said:

This is one of the drives and the power supply. I go to the Seagate page for information.

Normally, how much power do a sas need?

Thanks

 

5V?

[decibelio99]

3 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

It's not a question of how much power, it's a feature on some drives:

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/collateral/tech-brief/tech-brief-western-digital-power-disable-pin.pdf

 

Though yours is an older model so probably not affected, is the drive detected in the LSI BIOS?

Yes, I tried in another pc and the card neither detected any drive.

[Fireball3]

Please check if the Mini-SAS connector is properly seated. Sometimes it looks like but it isn't!
Unplug and plug again just to rule that one out.

[decibelio99]

18 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

It's not a question of how much power, it's a feature on some drives:

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/collateral/tech-brief/tech-brief-western-digital-power-disable-pin.pdf

 

Though yours is an older model so probably not affected, is the drive detected in the LSI BIOS?

Yes, I tried in another pc and the card neither detected any drive.

It was the cable... I just connect it and works
lots of thank all

[wilsonhomelab]

On 5/4/2011 at 8:16 AM, madburg said:

Another read from the LSI KnowledgeBase "Using drives >2TB in capacity with LSI SAS HBAs":http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16399.aspx

In case someone has trouble to look for this KB article. The URL is now here

 

Just to clarify, LSI 1086E will support SAS drives greater than 2TB, but not SATA drives. Confirmed this in my Dell R410 with SAS 6/iR HBA. All 4 x 3TB SAS drives are recognised.