OK point taken! (-: I will look for used items.

 

Just wondering. When I have two LSI cards in the same machine, I then have two different firmware menu? how does the card not conflict with each other?

Or will they recognize each other and only show one menu? 

 

4 hours ago, casperse said:

Just wondering. When I have two LSI cards in the same machine, I then have two different firmware menu? how does the card not conflict with each other?

Ideally, you would flash them to IT mode without a BIOS, that way there is no firmware menu or extended wait time during boot.

Hi @johnnie.black 
I finally got two LSI cards from ebay delivered (Used)

• LSI SAS 9201-8i PCI-Express Controller  9211-8i (IT-mode) - FW rev: 20.00.07.00-IT
• LSI SAS9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS 6Gbs HBA Card - FW rev: 5.00.13.00-IT

I have looked around and can't find the updated FW for the -16i card also the guides to perform the upgrade is different UEFI, DOS
Also some are stating to skip the 20 version and use a v21?

I have done many firmware updates on different controllers, but seems that this one might be better with an older version?
Again thanks for your help couldn't have done this without your and the other comments to this thread!

 

UPDATE Found this: https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/9201_16i_Package_P20_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip

 

Cheers
Casperse

Okay this went pretty smooth, to anyone else who wants to do this just:

 

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Boot to FreeDos with USB place files in root of USB

sas2flsh -listall --> (Check current Bios version)

sas2flsh -o -e 6 --> (Deletes firmware)

sas2flsh -o -f 9201-16i_it.bin -b mptsas2.rom --> (Update firmware and bios rom)

sasflsh -listall --> (Check Bios upgrade ok?)

Ctrl + Del (Reboot)

Ctrl + c (Set card in IT mode) - Dont see anything else than IT as a selection on the till?

 

The card now reports as a SAS2116_1(B1) but the Utill still show it as a SAS9201-16i main thing is that everything works! 

Edited October 7, 20187 yr by casperse