Normal behavior, mine does the same thing. Eliminate the boot rom and you won't have to worry about that scaring you any more. ;)
echo -off sas2flash.efi -o -e 7 cls sas2flash.efi -f 2308T204.ROM sas2flash.efi -b mptsas2.rom sas2flash.efi -b x64sas2.rom cls sas2flash.efi -o -sasaddhi 5003048
echo -off sas2flash.efi -o -e 7 cls sas2flash.efi -f 2308T204.ROM sas2flash.efi -b x64sas2.rom cls sas2flash.efi -o -sasaddhi 5003048
Attempting, stand by...Yes or just remove the mptsas2.rom file from the folder before you flash. That's what I did and it still worked.
To configure IR mode and to allow booting from drives attached to the card.Disks appearing in FreeNAS! No boot message :)
What is mptsas2.rom for?
I was under the impression that BIOS can flashed to the card, but one should disable booting from the card.
I see... Thank you! I did not make the connection.The card's rom file (BIOS) will start right after mobo BIOS and you can enter
the cards configuration settings with a certain keystroke (usually "control+h" or something like that).
The cards settings allow you to make choices for which device/drive to boot.
If the card is flashed without the ROM file, the boot sequence is bypassed (read faster).
Most people use the card as dumb hba and therefore the boot ROM is eliminated on purpose
to speed the FreeNAS boot time.
That's cool, most RAID cards do have config for staggered spinup. That's an excellent reason for keeping the ROMI see... Thank you! I did not make the connection.
However, I have a good reason to go into the card configuration settings! :D
I went into mine and changed it to start only one disk at a time (the default is two). That allows me to have additional disks in the system during the upgrades, but having a regular (not oversized) power supply.
Using the FreeBSD sas2flash executable (which is part of the FreeNAS base) worked just fine for me once I'd installed the 9.3.1 update (I'm guessing it wouldn't do the flash before the update because I was still running the P16 driver?). Here's what I did:
This was with an M1015 that was already cross-flashed to IT mode with the P16 firmware. No need to boot from USB sticks, into EFI shells, etc.
- Download pclausen's P20.zip file and unzip it somewhere on the pool
- Install the FreeNAS update and reboot
- SSH in to the box as root, and navigate to where I'd unzipped P20.zip
- sas2flash -fwall 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom
- Reboot
This was my experience, step by step.Hi Everyone
there is alot pages to go through but does anyone have a simple step by step procedure on how to update LSI SAS 9211-8i to version 20. I just bought a new server and i am getting this warning.
[...] I have talked to AsRock Rack on behalf of FreeNAS users and they are working on a P20.00.04 that is compatible with FreeNAS 9.3.1. [...]
I posted the 2308 firmware earlier in this thread for the E3C224D4I-14S if that's what your board is.Does anyone know if there's any news regarding AsRock and their firmware?
Is there a way I can test my current setup (FreeNas 9.3.1 with SM FW 20.00.02.00) for issues concerning the probably "faulty" firmware? What errors might I expect?
Currently everything runs smoothly. I'm thinking about going back to FreeNas 9.3.0 and SM FW 16.