Need Help Updating LSI HBA

[peace-keeping-villa8590]

I'm currently trying to solve an issue with certain SAS SSD's having slow read/write performance. I have a LSI 9400-16i that is on version 9 I believe. I looked on broadcom website and the newest version is 24. I looked online and everyone seems to use a avago utility to update the cards but the 9400 doesn't have the same utility. The 9400 uses "storcli" to update the firmware but I can't seem to get this it to work. I tried the freeDOS bootable USB but storcli won't run in DOS mode. Then I tried a full install of Ubuntu on a spare SSD but I can't get storcli installed. 

 

Since I'm updating the 9400 HBA, I was going to update my 9300 HBA that's also installed in the server. I just need so help on how it's done. 

 

Edited August 7 by peace-keeping-villa8590

[peace-keeping-villa8590]

The management package comes with several variations of the utility for different distros of Linux but Ubuntu (.deb) and Linux (.rpm) won't install. After work today I'm going to install windows on the spare drive and see if that works better since the .exe "should" install. 

[JorgeB]

See if this helps:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/97870-how-to-upgrade-an-lsi-hba-firmware-using-unraid/

 

[Wody]

17 hours ago, peace-keeping-villa8590 said:

Linux (.rpm) won't install.

You can unpack it manually, 7zip can unpack the .rpm which will get you a .cpio file. (I usually unpack it on Windows because it's what I am using but it works on linux too and then move the file to a share and then use putty to connect to unraid)

 

You can unpack the cpio with something like

cat filename | cpio -idmv

(filename is the very long name that I don't want to type here), it'll unpack storcli in opt/megaraid/storcli or something similar, you can then move storcli64 to /usr/bin or another location so you can execute it from anywhere.

 

If you get STORCLI_SAS3.5_P24.zip it'll have a splitpackage.sh included, but that doesn't work (but it is where the cpio commandline comes from).