[SOLVED] Do I need to flash my Silverstone ECS04 to IT Mode?

[the1poet]

Hi all,

I recently decided to move from my onboard sata to a raid card and purchased a Silverstone ECS04.

I read on a reddit post someone saying it shouldn't need IT mode, but I don't want to waste countless hours testing to find I need IT mode.

Here's the device: https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=706&area=en

If it does require IT mode, can someone point me in the direction of what's required to flash? I can see various posts around on how to do it, but the Silverstone page doesn't appear to have firmware or instructions on how to flash the firmware. The device uses the LSI SAS2308 chipset. Can I just get firmware from the chipset website?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

edit:

On the LSI website (which redirects to broadcom.com) I found the chipset here:

https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/sas-sata-controllers/sas-2308

^ this does not have any drivers, but if I go to related devices,

https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9207-8i

^ I find a LSI device which has all the drivers, etc

 

If I follow the instructions here: https://www.bussink.ch/?tag=sas2flash

Will this work for my device?

Edited June 3, 2020 by the1poet

[the1poet]

I ended up biting the bullet and flashin in IT mode. Will do a write up of the process on the weekend when I've got time.

It was quite painful, so hopefully the lesson I learned will help someone else in the process.

[Devar]

Are you able to share the process for the Silverstone ECS04 to IT mode?

[the1poet]

On 10/20/2020 at 3:27 PM, Devar said:

Are you able to share the process for the Silverstone ECS04 to IT mode?

Hi Devar, apologies for not replying for so long. Life in general has been very busy. I was sick the day I did it and in a bit of a fever state so my memory of the day is a bit foggy... which is the why I didn't get around to updating the day after.

As it's been quite some time, I'm not sure I could write accurate instructions on how I did it. From memory, the link I provided wasn't far off what I did, it was just getting the USB stick to boot into UEFI mode was the issue. I had to find a 32bit version of UEFI as the the program that patched the firmware was 32bit.

I hope that's of some use?