Please explain how to flash a M1015 on a X9SCM-F

[Ford Prefect]

I have 2 M1015s in a system one with P14 and one with P11 firmware. Can I upgrade the fw on this P11 card without taking out the P14 card?

 

Yes..."sas2flash -h" is your friend 

Do a "sas2flash -listall" to learn the FW, index and pci address of your controllers.

Then supply/select the desired controller by using the "-c x"  or "-cpci x" option ...choose/exchange "x" with the parameter from the "-listall" output for the card in question.

 

BTW: ...and P15 is out 

[prostuff1]

Used these instructions on a Supermicro X9SCM-IIF to flash 3 different cards and everything worked without issue.

 

Thanks for the instructions!

[WeeboTech]

I recently flashed 3 M1015s to IT mode on my X9SCM (BIOS ver. 2.0a) using sas2flash.efi version 12.

 

NOTE: There are enough reports from others now to say that this only works with BIOS version 2.0a+.

 

Here is what I did:

 

1. Create a FAT32 bootable usb thumb drive. I use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.

 

2. Copy all the necessary files to it. Everything from the first post here and sas2flash.efi from here.

 

3. Write down the sas address from the sticker on the M1015 card. (500605xxxxxxxxxx)

 

4. Shutdown and install the M1015 card.

 

5. Boot from the USB drive.

 

6. Enter the following commands:

megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0

 

7. Reboot. Enter BIOS setup. Boot to buit-in EFI shell. (It's on the exit tab near the bottom.)

 

8. Enter the follwing commands:

fs0:
dir /p

 

9. Check the file listing to ensure that the thumb drive you created is fs0. If not, try fs1, fs2, etc. until you find it.

 

10. Enter the following commands:

sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin
sas2flash -o -sasadd 500605xxxxxxxxxx

 

11. Reboot once more and you're done.

 

I hope this helps.

 

-Cliff

 

credit to:

http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-sas2008-lsi92409211-firmware-files/ &

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1658731

 

 

You saved my butt this eve when I received the dreaded ERROR: Pal error.

Thought I bricked my card, then saw all kinds of reports saying to do the sas2flsh on another motherboard.

Couldn't do that since I don't have any others, this being the first build.

 

 

These instructions worked with my Supermicro X9SCM-F-O bios 2.0a. 

[boyett]

I just register to say thanks to cpshoemake…

 

IBM M1115 SAS9223-8i

Supermicro X9SCM-F BIOS 2.0b

Flashing thru IPMI

 

System works fine. Instruction easy to follow.

Thanks again…

[techsolo]

Can somebody get me a copy of P12 or P13 sas2flash.efi? Jackasses @ LSI stil didn't fix the download links and all the other download links are dead...

[boyett]

http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-results.aspx?component=Storage+Component&productfamily=Host+Bus+Adapters&productcode=P00593&assettype=Firmware&productname=LSI+SAS+9207-8e

 

Select archives to download P13…