Logikgear
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So I picked up an H200 to install in my Dell R710 in the storage slot. I have flashed it several times with the same result. After the Cross flash, the ports have swapped. I still have port A on the card plugged into port A on the backplane of the 2.5" bays and the same with Ports B. But, now when you go into the SAS utility the drives in Bays 0,1,2,3 list in the utility as connected to 4,5,6,7 I was thinking, Okay, "this is an easy fix, just swap the cables." Well, the server doesn't like that. When I swap the cables I get the following:
error during post
Error: SAS Cable A or SAS integrated Controller is missing.
Error in the iDRAC interface
The storage SAS A cable is not connected, or is improperly connected.
If I swap the cables back then everything is fine error wise. I have done the following to achieve the crossflash. The first time used the dell server itself. Then I took the card to work and used a UEFI test bench. all with the same results.
First in the Dell R710: h200 in normal pci slot
After this it worked in the storage slot but the bays were swapped.
On a test bench at work and with different tools:
From EFI shell:
error during post
Error: SAS Cable A or SAS integrated Controller is missing.
Error in the iDRAC interface
The storage SAS A cable is not connected, or is improperly connected.
If I swap the cables back then everything is fine error wise. I have done the following to achieve the crossflash. The first time used the dell server itself. Then I took the card to work and used a UEFI test bench. all with the same results.
First in the Dell R710: h200 in normal pci slot
- sas2flsh.exe -c 0 -list Write down SAS address.
- sas2flsh.exe -o -e 6
- sas2flsh.exe -o -f h200i.fw
- sas2flsh.exe -o -b mptsas2.rom
- sas2flsh.exe -o -sasadd 500xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- sas2flsh.exe -o -f 2118p7.bin, Reboot
- sas2flsh.exe -o -f 2118it.bin.
After this it worked in the storage slot but the bays were swapped.
On a test bench at work and with different tools:
From EFI shell:
- sas2flash.efi -c 0 -list (to get my card's SAS address as it will be erased)
- megarec -readsbr 0 backup.sbr
- megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
- megarec -cleanflash 0
- sas2flash.efi -o -f H200I.FW
- sas2flash.efi -o -b mptsas2.rom
- sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118p7.bin
- sas2flash_p19.efi -o -f 2118it.bin
- sas2flash_p19.efi -o -sasadd 5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (to restore my card's SAS address)