I have an LSI 9220-8i that I am going to replace with an LSI 9305-16i. 

 

The 9220-8i is working fine, but I'm rebuilding the system and want to get rid of the Marvel controller that I also have. I flashed the 9220-8i to IT mode about 6 years ago but the steps elude me.

 

I wanted to test the process before I replace the card, so I'm sure that I have the correct software. I downloaded sas3flash and the support files, but when I run sas3flash -list, I get no Avago adapters found. I tried sas2flash, but that gives me some kind of HTML error.

 

lspci gives me LSI SAS2008 Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon]. I assume this is why sas3flash does not find the adapter. I'm not sure why sas2flash is not working. I assume it might be the support files?

 

 

The 9200 series uses sas2flash, the 9300 series uses sas3flash. They are not compatible with each other, so using the wrong one with the wrong card won't find anything as you found out. For both sas2flash and sas3flash the commandline is simply sasXflash -f firmwarefile, or for the bios sasXflash -b biosfile where X is obviously 2 or 3.

 

Both versions have no HTML embedded and are only a single file, so whatever you're doing is not calling the right sas2flash. These days it is recommended to do it from an UEFI shell, although it shouldn't matter much.

I downloaded a different version of sas2flash from Broadcom, which gave me:

 

 

How do I know this is in IT mode? I see it says IR, but I know I flashed it to IT mode, and it's been working fine in UnRaid. A little moot since I'm replacing it, but I want to get the replacement firmware right.

2 hours ago, Slimer said:

How do I know this is in IT mode?

It's not, also make sure to update to firmware 20.00.07 since all other 20.xx firmware versions have known issues.