Hello Unraid Forum,

You are my last hope now. I have been trying to get this to work without any luck.

The first thing I did was to boot from a DOS USB and type the following commands:

1. megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
2. megarec -cleanflash 0

 

Everything worked fine, and the clean was successful. However, when I tried to do the next step:

1. Reboot to DOS (yes, you must reboot) and type
2. sas2flsh -o -f 2118it.bin

I encountered an error message: "Failed to initialize PAL."

 

After that, I created an EFI bootable drive, found all the necessary files, and proceeded with the following steps in EFI shell:

1. fs0: (may be different on your machine)
2. dir (to verify you are on the correct USB stick!)
3. sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom
4. sas2flash -o -sasadd <500605B0xxxxxxxx>

 

In EFI, it seemed to load the necessary files correctly, and when I use sas2flash.efi -list, it even shows 0x2213 (IT), which seems promising.

Now to the problem: I can't see the drives that are connected to the card. I have a green blinking light at the back of the card (see picture 2).

I am not getting the prompt to press Ctrl+C to enter its BIOS...

 

I am totally lost now. Where should I start? Do I need to enable something in the BIOS to get the card to work? My motherboard is Asus Strix 570x E Gaming.

I'm not even sure if the files I used in the EFI folder and DOS folder are correct. I will also attach them. If somebody has a complete set of files, I would love to have them so I can make it work.
 

dos.zip efi.zip

Post i did follow with no luck and video
https://blog.edie.io/2018/03/22/ibm-m1015-9220-8i-cross-flashed-to-lsi-9211-8i-it-mode/

 

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/ibm-serveraid-m1015-and-no-lsi-sas-adapters-found.27445/

 

Now at p20 what more do i need

1 hour ago, poxixs said:

Now to the problem: I can't see the drives that are connected to the card.

You mean Unraid doesn't show you the disk ?

 

Pls double check the cable and try other PCIe slot and post diagnostic.

Edited July 29, 20232 yr by Vr2Io

Unraid Don't show Windows dont show disk 

i see the card in divise maneger in Windows. But no Disk (card show up as LIS-Card sas2 2008 Falcon)

Did try PCIe 2 and 3
same Resoult. 

did try defrined disk same 
The sata Cabel is a : https://www.av-cables.dk/mini-sas-sff-8087-til-sata/mini-sas-sff-8087-til-4-x-sata-direct-ocr-kabel-0-5m.html

 

did add diagnostics

pilsner-diagnostics-20230729-2233.zip

Do i need OCF cabel insted of OCR?

 

You need OCF (forward) cable if connect HBA to disk.

 

OCR are use for mobo to SATA backplane.

Edited July 29, 20232 yr by Vr2Io

Thx m8 

 

I did ordre a OCF Cabel now.. 

And hope it will fix it all