February 11, 201313 yr I just bought the card second hand and am working on my first unraid build. I'm following this post : http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg121131#msg121131 I've tried: LSI MegaRAID SAS2008 Controller.zip - 5.32 MB (Windows). I installed windows xp on a seperate harddrive attached to my Unraid box and tried to follow the instructions. However, I keep getting errors when I try to list the adaptors. I thought getting the driver for the card would help, but LSI 9220 is not listed. I tried installing the drivers for 9211-8i (which did not work) and 9240 (which does not have drivers for 32bit windows xp). This is the content of my AdaptersInfo1.txt: Exit Code: 0x01 Exit Code: 0x01 I also tried to flash the card in another computer with an asus MB (windows xp as well). And received the same result. But I wrote this off to the MB being from 2008 I took pictures of the details for my card: http://imgur.com/a/wh7Ji. Would anyone be able to help with flashing the card? I'm willing to buy a copy of windows 7 if that would help. Thankyou so much for your help!
February 11, 201313 yr I always have used the DOS USB key method and this file:LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip - 5.87 MB for my 5 M1015s. They were flashed on a SuperMicro C2SBA+II MB
February 11, 201313 yr Author Thankyou for the hint! I tried that with a windows 98 DOS boot disk and the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. And I received similar errors. Is there a better boot disk software I can use with my USB?
February 11, 201313 yr I followed this process to flash mine on my Asus P6X58D Premium, and it worked 100%. In saying that, there are plenty of cases of particular motherboards not being able to flash these cards.. hopefully not the case with yours.
February 12, 201313 yr Author I didn't get to try your hint BQ. Didn't see your post. I was playing around with it as I was having the dreaded "Failed to initialize PAL" error message. I was about to try flashing on another MB, but decided to search around and found out it works on the UEFI console. You'll need two items: 1. Download the full UFEI shell from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#UEFI_Shell (used x86_64 1.0) and paste Shell_Full.efi on the root of the USB. I unfortunately figured this out after going through the whole routine. Makes things a bit easier. 2. http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9211-8i.aspx download firmware > Installer_P15_for_UEFI Drop the resulting sas2flash.efi into the folder with the sas2flsh.exe. Now to actually do the deed: In my MB, if I bring up the boot menu by pressing F11, one of the options is "Built-in EFI Shell". If you don't have this, I searched and saw there are bootable linux distros what come with EFI shells. If it will work for flashing the card, I have no idea Booting into this, you'll get a command promt. Listed above the promt, will be all the devices attached. In my case, there was fs0 and blk0. Type > fs0: Type "ls" (list). If "ls" doesn't work, keep pressing tab. If you see the files in your usb appearing one after another, you're in business. if not, try some of the other FS. DON'T FORGET THE COLON : Keep tabbing until you come to Shell_Full.efi and press enter. Now you will see the same device info listed once more. Now ls will work. cd into the directory with your bat files (which is where you have your sas2flash.efi). Now to run the commands for step 5 and 6. Execute the following. Step 5: > sas2flash.efi -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom Step 6: > sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx Where 500605bxxxxxxxxx is replaced by SAS Address from Adapters.txt THAT'S IT! I've been struggling with this since saturday and after BobPhoenix's hint about using the right software, it's fixed in one. I hope this helps someone stuck in this step. Cheers
March 9, 201313 yr I hope this helps someone stuck in this step. You're a champ newbie_dude! I'm running an ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M, so I had to use the UEFI method you detailed. I also updated my card to the current version of the firmware (P15) and BIOS (7.29 - 2012.11.12), details in this post. Thanks again!
March 11, 201313 yr I was playing around with it as I was having the dreaded "Failed to initialize PAL" error message. Did you try the Linux flasher, under unRAID/Slackware?
March 11, 201313 yr Author I was playing around with it as I was having the dreaded "Failed to initialize PAL" error message. Did you try the Linux flasher, under unRAID/Slackware? Unfortunately no, I did not. I was under the impression that unraid won't pick up the card until it was flashed. So it would work for subsequent upgrades, but to initially flash it, I had to use the low and dirty method. Would the linux installer have worked under unraid? If so, that would be a much simpler method!
March 11, 201313 yr I was under the impression that unraid won't pick up the card until it was flashed. unRAID won't recognise the card because the appropriate driver isn't present, but the flashers don't use the driver, so my expectation is that it ought to work.
March 11, 201313 yr I didn't get to try your hint BQ. Didn't see your post. I was playing around with it as I was having the dreaded "Failed to initialize PAL" error message. I was about to try flashing on another MB, but decided to search around and found out it works on the UEFI console. You'll need two items: 1. Download the full UFEI shell from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#UEFI_Shell (used x86_64 1.0) and paste Shell_Full.efi on the root of the USB. I unfortunately figured this out after going through the whole routine. Makes things a bit easier. 2. http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9211-8i.aspx download firmware > Installer_P15_for_UEFI Drop the resulting sas2flash.efi into the folder with the sas2flsh.exe. Now to actually do the deed: In my MB, if I bring up the boot menu by pressing F11, one of the options is "Built-in EFI Shell". If you don't have this, I searched and saw there are bootable linux distros what come with EFI shells. If it will work for flashing the card, I have no idea Booting into this, you'll get a command promt. Listed above the promt, will be all the devices attached. In my case, there was fs0 and blk0. Type > fs0: Type "ls" (list). If "ls" doesn't work, keep pressing tab. If you see the files in your usb appearing one after another, you're in business. if not, try some of the other FS. DON'T FORGET THE COLON : Keep tabbing until you come to Shell_Full.efi and press enter. Now you will see the same device info listed once more. Now ls will work. cd into the directory with your bat files (which is where you have your sas2flash.efi). Now to run the commands for step 5 and 6. Execute the following. Step 5: > sas2flash.efi -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom Step 6: > sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx Where 500605bxxxxxxxxx is replaced by SAS Address from Adapters.txt THAT'S IT! I've been struggling with this since saturday and after BobPhoenix's hint about using the right software, it's fixed in one. I hope this helps someone stuck in this step. Cheers Excellent! These notes allowed me to flash a M1015 with my X9SCM-F after getting the "Failed to initialize PAL" message. Thanks to you and others in this forum!
May 7, 201412 yr I didn't get to try your hint BQ. Didn't see your post. I was playing around with it as I was having the dreaded "Failed to initialize PAL" error message. I was about to try flashing on another MB, but decided to search around and found out it works on the UEFI console. You'll need two items: 1. Download the full UFEI shell from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#UEFI_Shell (used x86_64 1.0) and paste Shell_Full.efi on the root of the USB. I unfortunately figured this out after going through the whole routine. Makes things a bit easier. 2. http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9211-8i.aspx download firmware > Installer_P15_for_UEFI Drop the resulting sas2flash.efi into the folder with the sas2flsh.exe. Now to actually do the deed: In my MB, if I bring up the boot menu by pressing F11, one of the options is "Built-in EFI Shell". If you don't have this, I searched and saw there are bootable linux distros what come with EFI shells. If it will work for flashing the card, I have no idea Booting into this, you'll get a command promt. Listed above the promt, will be all the devices attached. In my case, there was fs0 and blk0. Type > fs0: Type "ls" (list). If "ls" doesn't work, keep pressing tab. If you see the files in your usb appearing one after another, you're in business. if not, try some of the other FS. DON'T FORGET THE COLON : Keep tabbing until you come to Shell_Full.efi and press enter. Now you will see the same device info listed once more. Now ls will work. cd into the directory with your bat files (which is where you have your sas2flash.efi). Now to run the commands for step 5 and 6. Execute the following. Step 5: > sas2flash.efi -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom Step 6: > sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx Where 500605bxxxxxxxxx is replaced by SAS Address from Adapters.txt THAT'S IT! I've been struggling with this since saturday and after BobPhoenix's hint about using the right software, it's fixed in one. I hope this helps someone stuck in this step. Cheers I know this topic hasn't been posted on for a while, but I had to thank you for these instructions. They helped me so much. I have a SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O motherboard and was getting the "Failed to initialize PAL" error message when using sas2flsh.exe. Everything else worked just as you instructed, but after running Step 5, I would get an "ERROR: Cannot Flash IT Firmware over IR Firmware!" message, so I actually had to run "megarec -cleanflash 0" in DOS first. After that, Step 5 and Step 6 worked flawlessly. I'm now in IT mode and running Firmware P19 and BIOS 7.37. Regarding MegaRec, I am guessing I could have run sas2flsh.exe –o –e [6 or 7] in DOS, which I didn't realize until just now.
March 6, 20215 yr Hey I have same issue and MB but I cannot seem to get step one to work, I have been on that archlinux page trying to find the shell files and no luck. DId something change?
March 7, 20215 yr Got into the shell and able to attempt the commands not but I am getting a syntax error now.
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