SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0

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The IT firmware should be easy to find on your card manufacturer's download site; if not then Google it. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). In case you're worried about your storage system - if you simply and temporarily disconnect the data cables from your entire FreeNAS boot + storage setup while flashing, then ZFS will happily find them all again when you reconnect them afterwards (provided the motherboard remembers its boot device or you remind it via motherboard setup when you're finished! The one issue I’ve encountered is that some UEFI motherboards don’t have a UEFI shell built-in (such as my Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H).

Now, I don't want to brick my LSI my first time flashing, so I wanted to nail down the commands from the guide I linked, but to not include the BIOS portion. But if you're using multiple SSDs or multiple SAS 3 HDDs, you might need to up your game, or put fewer disks on each HBA, or accept a reduced max total bandwidth. I’ll try and make this short, But essentially, the 2 different cables look pretty much the same but differ in how they are used to carry data. We only used the P5 version to allow crossflashing to LSI and to allow flashing of non-LSI firmware, if that succeeded then we don't need it any more.Hybrid disks with onboard NVRam caching shouldn't be an issue since they are usually designed not to have their NVRAM cache seen by the OS, and any hard disk onboard cache will always be unaffected by disconnecting the drive from the controller. If you are seeing mpr device sensor showing high temps, and a possible eventual kernel panic, you'll need to get a fan blowing on the card's heatsink. The SAS3 HBAs, oldest being the SAS3008 are usually significantly more expensive than the 2308 or 2008; so you'd have to decide if it is worth the expense. People might also tend to prefer using LSI/Avago/Broadcom firmware not Dell/Fujitsu versions, which means changing the card's recorded manufacturer.

In this scenario, you would have a chassis with a SAS backplane that you drives all slide into and then you use one of these reverse cables to connect the backplane directly to the motherboard without the use of an HBA/RAID card. Perhaps this is another dumb question, but once it is working, those drives should just show up in windows correct?We check before going further, how many LSI controllers the flasher detects, and that it's the same as the number of LSI controllers you expect it to find, so that nothing gets wrongly flashed if there is a hidden controller anywhere. Example: potentially some SAS-3/12 Gbit hard drives may not work with a SAS-2/6 Gbit card like the 9211. As you can see, it is not actually all that complex, but there are a hilarious many things that can refuse to play ball in this, and sorting out those from the ones that work took quite a bit of effort. To be exact, I noticed LSI 9211-8i (and OEM equivalent) being recommended often but they are quite old by now. And ah I see, that makes sense, having known working drivers certainly makes deployment and troubleshooting easier!

Last there are 2 folders, one has Megarec and the files needed with it, one has sas2flash and the files needed with it. The LSI P5 EFI flasher (and MSDOS version if using MSDOS) seems to be very reliable for other OEMs and versions, but if not, you'll have to find a version of sas2flash that does work for it and for you. Google is sure to have information to help you as well, and if not, ask on this or other relevant forums. so as long as you can point me to some good documentation I am willing to learn and flash the 9211-8i myself. If I'm using an LSI RAID card on a SuperMicro server motherboard, I shouldn't need to do the UEFI thing right?

Read the safety instructions, read the rest to get an idea of it, then follow their release notes and use their flasher and update the cards that way. Again worth noting that it doesn't usually matter what value you give it, and you can update its SAS ID at any time after flashing by booting into MSDOS/EFI and using sas2flash -c CARD_ID -sasadd SAS ID.

From this point on we're done with megarec and we only need to reboot into MSDOS/EFI (whichever sas2flash requires). But on the whole, earlier versions are better than latest versions for this bit, if you can find them easily, since the most consistently working LSI software for crossflashing is the early versions before about P7. The LSI 9211-i8 HBA controller has two ports - one to the Intel expander and the other port is currently free.The firmware most people will want to get working is LSI/Avago/Broadcom IT software (currently version P20).