March 20, 20197 yr I recently bought this card and it currently is not reading my hard drive I have hooked to it. Is this card valid for working with Unraid. If not, what can you reccomend. I need a 4-port SATA card. Thanks
March 20, 20197 yr I recently bought this card and it currently is not reading my hard drive I have hooked to it. Is this card valid for working with Unraid. If not, what can you reccomend. I need a 4-port SATA card. ThanksIs it in IT mode?Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
March 20, 20197 yr It should have stated it on the ebay page, but simple test is if you connect more that one drive and boot into a OS you should see all the drives if not then the card is in Raid format and you will have to flash it. You made have to google how to flash that card.
March 20, 20197 yr Author I was able to boot into unraid with the card hooked up, the only drives that are read are the ones hooked to my motherboard.
March 20, 20197 yr Disks should be detected even in raid mode, please post diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics, might be some clues there.
March 20, 20197 yr 11 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Disks should be detected even in raid mode, please post diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics, might be some clues there. oh really, i thought the raid card would detect the disk but not unraid as is not passing them thru unmolested..
March 20, 20197 yr With these LSI "lite" raid controllers it usually works the same, LSI MegaRAID controllers like for example 9260-8i can be different, since they use a different driver because they are more advanced raid controllers.
March 20, 20197 yr Author Here is my diagnostic file. Let me know how I should proceed. tower-diagnostics-20190320-1856.zip
March 21, 20197 yr Nice share name....How many drives do you have on the raid card?I'm not great at reading the log but it's seeing the raid controller but I'm not sure if it's detecting the drives on the on board or raid. How big are the drives?Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
March 21, 20197 yr 6 hours ago, Strubdog said: Any update? Controller is being detected correctly, though it is in raid mode, but no disks are detected, like no disks are connected, check if they are detected by the controller bios, if they aren't' it also won't be detected by Unraid, you should also flash it to IT mode with latest firmware.
March 21, 20197 yr 16 hours ago, Strubdog said: I recently bought this card and it currently is not reading my hard drive I have hooked to it. How is it physically connected to the drive? Just because the cable has the correct connectors doesn't mean it's the proper cable. Describe in detail (model numbers or physical descriptions) the cables and / or enclosures, hot swap bays, whatever.
March 22, 20197 yr Author The card works, I just didn't have my test drive connector all the way in. Drives are detected in all 4 ports, I also didn't have to flash it either. Only downside is that the card does not detect SSD's, just my mechanical hard drives. I appreciate the help on this. This thread can be considered solved. Thanks
March 22, 20197 yr 3 hours ago, Strubdog said: I also didn't have to flash it either. That doesn't mean you shouldn't, if nothing else at least update to latest RAID firmware, since it's using an ancient one, it might even detect the SSDs after that, though since trim won't work not the best place to use them anyway.
November 23, 20196 yr On 3/22/2019 at 3:42 PM, johnnie.black said: That doesn't mean you shouldn't, if nothing else at least update to latest RAID firmware, since it's using an ancient one, it might even detect the SSDs after that, though since trim won't work not the best place to use them anyway. Hello, my brother, I also bought this card, bought from China, I am a person who loves toss, and therefore some problems, So I came to ask for help PS：I came to this forum for the first time. I don't know the rules of posting. If there is any inappropriate place, please forgive me. I am a Chinese. English is relatively poor. All content is basically machine translation. Please ignore some grammar mistakes. Here's what happened to me. This card was disassembled from HP's server, and the IR mode is displayed after power on, as shown in the figure below, but my hard disk can be found. Very strange Because the firmware version is relatively low and IR mode self check is very slow, I want to brush it into P2O it mode and download the latest firmware from “the official website9212_4i4e_Package_P20_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip ” The first step is that I didn't back it up. I executed this command (I regret it very much now) “SAS2FLSH.（EXE or EFI) -o -e 6” I saw too many posts， I forgot to execute it under DOS or UEFI, but I am sure that the first one is the command and teld me executed Success。 Advanced Mode Set Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Executing Operation: Erase Flash Erasing Flash Region... Erase Flash Operation Successful! Resetting Adapter... Reset Successful! Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash. Then I execute the second one (because DOS prompts failed to initialize pal when I update the firmware command, all of which I know is executed in EFI environment) “sas2flsh -o -f 214i4et.bin -b mptsas2.rom ” The following error is prompted Chip is in RESET state. Attempting Host Boot... ERROR: Firmware Host Boot Failed ! Due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to Process Commands. Exiting SAS2Flash. I tried this solution below of unraid，-writesbr and -cleanflash all printed successfully， but flash firmware still tip me failed Firmware Host Boot Failed ! On 4/16/2018 at 5:48 AM, nthu9280 said: It can be frustrating at time and I've gone thru' this pain. Try the following sequence. Someone had reported success with writing empty sbr after cleanflash. The standard sequence is before. Also check the syntax for my steps. I'm typing this on mobile from my memory. Try starting over: 1. megarec -cleanflash 0 2. Megarec writesbr sbrempty.bin 3. Reboot 4. Sas2flsh-p14 (without -o) -f 6gbpsas.fw 5. Reboot 6. Sas2flsh-p20 -f 2118IT.bin 7. Sas2flsh-p20 (sas-add) Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk I am not sure if there has a problem with the card itself, such as the firmware is blocked at the factory. Or because I executed this command first “SAS2FLSH -o -e 6 ”？ But I see that others have succeeded in this operation. By the way， What is the difference between the “SAS2FLSH -o -e 6 ” and “ -writesbr 0 mepty.bin + -cleanflash ” One more thing before I flash firmware , when i turnd on power and pressd Ctrl + C ， it always prompted this But I've never been in the WebBios Ask you for help. thanks
November 23, 20196 yr 7 hours ago, vincent99 said: One more thing before I flash firmware , when i turnd on power and pressd Ctrl + C ， it always prompted this The card seems not flashable, it show erase success but actually not. Likely ROM chip in write protect or read only. Edited November 23, 20196 yr by Benson
November 24, 20196 yr 6 hours ago, Benson said: The card seems not flashable, it show erase success but actually not. Likely ROM chip in write protect or read only. thanks for your reply，This display is after I bought it, not after execute “SAS2FLSH -o -e 6” ， My description made you misunderstood 😭 ，sorry
November 24, 20196 yr 16 hours ago, vincent99 said: What is the difference between the “SAS2FLSH -o -e 6 ” and “ -writesbr 0 mepty.bin + -cleanflash ” ... writesbr ... use for IT/IR <-> MegaRAID, as your LSI in IT/IR, you shouldn't use writesbr 16 hours ago, vincent99 said: DOS prompts failed to initialize pal when I update the firmware command, all of which I know is executed in EFI environment) What screen show during LSI POST now ? If you do it in EFI environment, two command as below, pls perform one by one again and clearly show all detail sas2flash.efi -o -e 6 sas2flash.efi -o -f <firmware name>.bin -b mptsas2.rom Edited November 24, 20196 yr by Benson
November 24, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Benson said: ... writesbr ... use for IT/IR <-> MegaRAID, as your LSI in IT/IR, you shouldn't use writesbr What screen show during LSI POST now ? If you do it in EFI environment, two command as below, pls perform one by one again and clearly show all detail sas2flash.efi -o -e 6 sas2flash.efi -o -f <firmware name>.bin -b mptsas2.rom thanks for your reply again now ， I Can‘t saw LSI POST info when power on When I execute the command “sas2flash.efi -o -e 6”, prompted like that firmware is missing . Please enter the name of the firmware. I don't remember the detailed ，i will give the photo later But when I execute this sas2flash.efi -o -f <firmware name>.bin -b mptsas2.rom I get the error Chip is in RESET state. Attempting Host Boot... ERROR: Firmware Host Boot Failed ! The computer is not around now. I will follow your steps and take photos for you tomorrow （24 Hours later） Wait for me
November 24, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, vincent99 said: Wait for me Sure If I am correct, even perform “sas2flash.efi -o -e 6” and reboot. You also can submit “sas2flash.efi -o -e 6” again without error. So, how about the output of "sas2flash.efi -listall" But if you have use "megarec .... " touch the flash chip, then story may be different. How about if "megacli.exe -AdpAllInfo -aAll -page 20" ( megacli not megarec ) I think you should identify which command could recognice the card first. BTW, may be also ref. below guide https://www.cnblogs.com/nasiry/p/6390410.html H200 UEFI: Boot into UEFI shell: sas2flash.efi -c 0 -list Write down SAS address. Reboot into DOS prompt: megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin If this fails move on to next step. megarec.exe -cleanflash 0 Reboot into UEFI shell: sas2flash.efi -o -f 6GBPSAS.FW Reboot and return to UEFI shell. sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118it.bin or sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118p7.bin, reboot, then sas2flash_p19.efi -o -f 2118it.bin sas2flash_p19.efi -o -sasadd 500xxxxxxxxxxxxx Edited November 24, 20196 yr by Benson
November 25, 20196 yr 22 hours ago, Benson said: ... writesbr ... use for IT/IR <-> MegaRAID, as your LSI in IT/IR, you shouldn't use writesbr What screen show during LSI POST now ? If you do it in EFI environment, two command as below, pls perform one by one again and clearly show all detail sas2flash.efi -o -e 6 sas2flash.efi -o -f <firmware name>.bin -b mptsas2.rom How are you, my stranger friend ，As you said, I did that and got this . I typed “quit” this time 。（ I tried to enter the firmware file name before, and got the same error as type " sas2flash -o -f <name>.bin" ） sas2flash.efi -o -f <firmware name>.bin -b mptsas2.rom 12e.bin and 12e.rom is the firmware and bios P20 version what i renamed id。
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