I'm planning on expanding an existing system running on a Supermicro MBD-X10SLL-F-O board.
I obtained a LSI 9211-8i card and after installing it (no drives attached to it yet) I was able to see that it was in IR mode.
I discovered that FreeNAS already has the sas2flash command included so I attempted to use that with the commands from https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/ .
When executing
If I try to run the command to flash with the IT firmware
I obtained a LSI 9211-8i card and after installing it (no drives attached to it yet) I was able to see that it was in IR mode.
I discovered that FreeNAS already has the sas2flash command included so I attempted to use that with the commands from https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/ .
When executing
sas2flash -o -e 6
, I get the error "Erase Flash Command not Supported on this platform.", full output:Code:
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01) Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved Advanced Mode Set Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Executing Operation: Erase Flash Erasing Flash Region... Erase Flash Command not Supported on this platform. Resetting Adapter... Reset Successful! Due to Exception Command not Executed. IOCStatus=0x1, IOCLogInfo=0x0 Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash.
If I try to run the command to flash with the IT firmware
sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom
it refuses to flash over IR firmware (as expected since the above command didn't work).