March 29, 201412 yr Hi, i have purchased a M1115 and plan to cross flash it to the LSI firmware. i have tried this to on 2 different PC and had it connected to a x16 slot the PC fails to boot/POST. Case fans and CPU fans spin up, the light on the card come on and then it resets and does it all over again. it does this on both the PC's with hdd's plugged in and unplugged. Anything anyone can suggest?
March 29, 201412 yr Not that it will help you, but others that may follow; Can you provide details like the motherboard version, power supply, other components, and the version of M1115? There are many reported cases of computers running fine, then inserting "XXY" card creates reboot loop. This is potentially power load, or memory/io overlap. Former would mean swapping power supply. The later might be resolved with BIOS changes.
March 29, 201412 yr Is the 1115 (a more recent version of the 1015 used by many) even supported in unraid?
March 29, 201412 yr Not sure the unRAID support, but the M1115 can be flashed to LSI 9211-8i. Since the question is just about getting the machine to POST, we'll start there.
March 30, 201412 yr Author Is the 1115 (a more recent version of the 1015 used by many) even supported in unraid? The wiki shows this as being supported and someone has followed the instructions for 1015 and re flashed the 1115 here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26774.msg236857#msg236857 Not that it will help you, but others that may follow; Can you provide details like the motherboard version, power supply, other components, and the version of M1115? There are many reported cases of computers running fine, then inserting "XXY" card creates reboot loop. This is potentially power load, or memory/io overlap. Former would mean swapping power supply. The later might be resolved with BIOS changes. The 2 machine specs i have tried this on are below System one (unRaid Server) MB - Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 RAM – 4GB PSU – Hyper Type R 580 HDD – All Disconnected Video - PCI-e x16 PCI-e Sata 2 port card System Two (old HTPC) MB – Gigabyte HM55-UD2H RAM 4GB PSU – Antec 450 (not sure on the exact model at this stage) HDD – All Disconnected but uses a 64Gb SDD I have one more system i can try when i get a moment. thanks
March 30, 201412 yr Author ok, so i have managed to get it to boot and flash the firmware to convert it to a LSI card thanks to c3 and his private msg about taping the contacts. now i get passed the post problem and now when it starts to boot i get a screen of red and white triangles with a blinking line about 1/3 of the way down. this work and boot in another PC just not the unraid box hmmm.
March 30, 201412 yr The wiki shows this as being supported and someone has followed the instructions for 1015 and re flashed the 1115 here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26774.msg236857#msg236857 Good to know, thanks!
July 9, 201411 yr 2 points 1rst, M1115 is not just a newer version of M1015, its a full on Raid card and has a battery option and as such might be a better option for Raid 5. 2nd, the wierd video artifacts mentioned above also happened to me. This board is a DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR. I had a cross flashed M1015 in x16 slot #2 (works great there) I put in a PCI graphic card to free up x16 slot #1 (GPU slot) for another M1015. Machine would not boot past second cross flashed M1015 card in x16 slot and presented the same screen mentioned above. Food for thought, Going to try pin taping to see if that fixes issue. If so, cool, I load freeNas :-)
July 9, 201411 yr 2 points 1rst, M1115 is not just a newer version of M1015, its a full on Raid card and has a battery option and as such might be a better option for Raid 5. 2nd, the wierd video artifacts mentioned above also happened to me. This board is a DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR. I had a cross flashed M1015 in x16 slot #2 (works great there) I put in a PCI graphic card to free up x16 slot #1 (GPU slot) for another M1015. Machine would not boot past second cross flashed M1015 card in x16 slot and presented the same screen mentioned above. Food for thought, Going to try pin taping to see if that fixes issue. If so, cool, I load freeNas :-) Both the M1015 and the M1115 are full RAID cards, until flashed IT. Neither has cache, which is why they are great for things like unRAID. And the no cache means, no battery. The M1115 is a very minor change to the M1015, but they are different. Reference http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0054.html#comparison
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