Hi all,
Just wanted to post my findings on flashing the asrock E3C224D4I-14S to P16 drivers for the LSI SAS chip.
Just wanted to post my findings on flashing the asrock E3C224D4I-14S to P16 drivers for the LSI SAS chip.
- LSI SAS Chip not recognizing the SAS port drives
- The two LSI SAS Ports are actually the top TWO Ports when the RAM is at the bottom of the board. This is the one that is vertical, and one that is horizontal.
- Hard drives not recognizing even though attached to the correct LSI SAS ports
- Go to the Bios and go to Storage Configuration. Then there will be a section with LSI Chip, and make sure to turn on the LSI boot-able and Smartdisk
- Flashing LSI Chip to P16.
- Boot into the LSI Chip Config. Ctrl + C at boot
- Then in the configuration, go into the LSI Adapter
- Find the SAS Address: 500138XX:XXXXXXXX
- You only need the last 9 digits of the SAS address. I'd suggest just taking a picture of it just in case you don't write it down correctly. This is a critical step.
- Download the P16 file ->
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2308/Firmware/IT/Previous%20Releases/
- Unzip the files. You only need the UEFI files.
- Put the contents into the root of a USB that is formatted to Fat32
- Boot into the Built in UEFI menu of the motherboard.
- Type Map to find the usb drive.
- mount the usb drive; mine was labeled fs0
- command is "mount fs0"
- Go into the USB.
- command is "fs0:"
- type "ls" to see the file names
- type "SMC2308T.NSH" which is a file that you put onto the usb. With this, you are executing it.
- Wait until it asks you for the SAS Address. Then input only the last 9 digits of it.
- Then you're pretty much done.