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

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I'm about to flash my IBM ServeRAID M1015 to IT mode with your guide and I'm a bit unsure regarding the UEFI shell. Make sure you don't accidentally flash an SSD or motherboard (or other hidden) LSI 2008 controller before continuing. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. Temporarily disconnect with care any other hardware or boot/data devices that might get scrambled by this, any drives you might accidentally destroy, or whatever. Foward Breakout cables are used to go from a HBA/RAID card and connect one of the ports on your LSI 9211-8i to 4 x sata drives.

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). Although "-o" does nothing by itself, it's needed as a safety measure when using certain sas2flash commands.Check it can find disks on all ports (if it finds some but not others then sbr might be a factor, it's rare but has been reported, you'll have to Google it or check the link below) and check that the card seems to allow FreeNAS to see a disk on any of its ports, properly. Single or Dual link to expander also work, if in dual link then actual bandwidth would be 4GB for 16 disks, every disk got 250MB, so scan 10TB should less then 24hrs. The files include a v1 EFI shell (compatible with all EFI boards; v2 EFI shells might not work on v1 boards) - note there are 2 copies of it because different boards expect it in different places (in the root dir or in \efi\boot). The LSI 9211-i8 HBA controller has two ports - one to the Intel expander and the other port is currently free. com/gp/product/B012BPLYJC They’re relatively cheap so if you want to take a crack at different cabling again it wouldn’t break the bank.

Type these lines manually one at a time, but adding " -c 0" for the first card, " -c 1" for the second card, etc.But there could be exceptions, so if unsure, it's worth asking on the forum, if unsure whether your SAS2xxx/3xxx based card can actually be crossflashed and is supported by your system. I renamed some files in the zip file for clarity, because different versions all had the same name and it reduces mistakes. Mount the LSI card in your machine, plug in the USB drive with all four files on it (the LSI BIOS, the firmware, the sas2flash utility and the efi shell), and drop into the BIOS of your machine. Awesomely thorough guide - I wish I followed this from the start and didn't waste several evenings running into dead ends wiping, flashing, re-flashing, re-wiping, etc.

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). Grab the SAS ID (and perhaps the SBR data) if you care about it, check your system is okay and any storage devices safely dealt with (see "preparations"), and download/unzip a known good version of your card's OEM (Dell/Fujitsu) IT firmware to use as a first "jump". New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . I just calculated that it would take almost 3 days to scan 10TB if the expander has 16 drives connected and 1 cable going to the SAS contoller.If all this holds true can I shutdown, move the controller to my unRAID server, attach my SAS to SATA breakout cables, connect my HDDs and boot unRAID OS? If not, use the above command first of all, to get the info, if you insist on making a note beforehand But if it's a "clean start" situation with no need to preserve existing SAS topology or attached disk info, mostly you just want to be sure the SAS ID is unique in that box and you won't need to have an existing SAS ID to crossflash+prepare your card. I'm also going to assume you 've read carefully online and haven't found information you need, or you've tried following some guides and "it just hasn't worked".