LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s Controller Card

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Currently the whole system is working, but it only detects drives during BIOS, and drives passed through to FreeNas works, except HotPlug/ Hotswap is not working... the following command will write just the firmware to all cards present (note I had to boot in efi mode to use sas2flash.efi):

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mps0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xdf1bc000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 The IBM ServeRAID M1015 is in far heavier use around these forums than the legit LSI HBA card. It's a little more complicated to flash to begin with, but you should be able to find the resources here to help you. The IT-Firmware is working well? I have a T210 with a H200 and i need to install FreeNAS on it (based on free BSD). Since I'm booting FreeNAS from flash drives, I decided to run sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118it.bin to exclude the BIOS, and that worked perfectly (after erase). This reduced the server's boot time by probably 10-20 seconds too.I used this procedure to flash a couple of 9211-4i cards to IT mode over remote KVM / IPMI on servers I rent for work. This was a bit of a challenge to get done. This info was very helpful, so I thought I'd say thanks (thanks!) and leave some additional clues to anyone trying to do this in the future over remote KVM with virtual media. Now that you saw that you PC/server is still able to boot even with the card inserted in its slot, prepare a medium to use to boot the PC/server and update the firmware. Thx Sovking, I managed to flash the H200 controller with IT but I'm not able to boot the server. I get the follwing message. So I think I have all the files for the firmware upgrade, and an idea of the firmware flash command / process, The LSI card may have two different types of firmware: the IR one (which is shipped into PERC H200) and the IT one (which is shipped with PERC 6Gbps SAS HBA which have esternal ports insted of internal ones as the H200).

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Main Gigabit switch: TrendNet Green TEG-S80G v2.0R (8k mac table, 128k ram buffer, 9216 jumbo frames) Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) SuperMicro X11SSH-F, Intel E3-1225 v6 (Plex hw transcode broken); 64 GiB (4x16) Crucial/SuperMicro ECC DDR4 UDIMM Just to be clear, I didn't say they quit making them in 2011. It's just that there was a heavy influx of them in a certain period. Since SAS 12Gbps wasn't introduced until recently, I'm sure they continued to make them. no idea why the dates are off, probably a documentation bug, most everything in this .zip file is dated March 2016, except the BIOS date is right)

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Thinking about installing Windows just for the firmware... That should work when using the below, right? Well, maybe good idea for some applications, especially with frequent reboots. NAS is rather less impacted. I personally used to use a single 9211-8i with an Intel SAS expander for 34 HDDs in a single chassis and had no issues:) These are instructions for the specific case of a normal PC having an Asus UEFI bios and SecureBoot not being used. In your specific case you might have to perform additional actions or skip others.