I purchased a Dell PERC H310 off eBay with the idea of expanding the drives in my HP Microserver Gen8 after doing a fair amount of digging on here and finding that the general consensus was these are pretty cost effective and work great in IT mode.
I then headed over to mattr's tutorial here and started to flash it.
USB all prepped and into FreeDOS, I ran the first command to get my SAS address and noted it down.
On to flashing the card.
Unlike the guide this command was successful and outputs the following;
Didn't think this was a huge issue so moved on to the next step.
This completed successfully and outputs the following;
Rebooted my server and back into FreeDOS as stated in the guide. Now this is where I get into trouble....
This command fails with the following output;
OK so I stepped back a second and rebooted my server and went back to the
step. Same issue applies when I get to flashing the 6GBPSAS.fw. So this is where I am stuck...
I have tried a couple of different things but to no avail.
Interestingly or perhaps worryingly now when I run
I get an error stating
I have also tried;
but I get an error stating the following;
Really not sure where to go next. Do you have any suggestions on what to try next or spot what I am doing wrong ? Can post screenshots of the full outputs if that will help. I think I need to try this in a UEFI machine next so will need to see if I can dig one out or borrow one from work.
I then headed over to mattr's tutorial here and started to flash it.
USB all prepped and into FreeDOS, I ran the first command to get my SAS address and noted it down.
Code:
megacli.exe -AdpAllInfo -aAll -page 20
On to flashing the card.
Code:
megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
Unlike the guide this command was successful and outputs the following;
Code:
Chip is in FUSION mode - Success
Didn't think this was a huge issue so moved on to the next step.
Code:
megarec.exe -cleanflash 0
This completed successfully and outputs the following;
Code:
Erasing Flash Chip (16MB) Completed: 100%
Rebooted my server and back into FreeDOS as stated in the guide. Now this is where I get into trouble....
Code:
sas2flsh.exe -o -f 6GBPSAS.fw
This command fails with the following output;
Code:
Beginning Firmware Download... Firmware Download Failed! Due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to Process Commands Exiting SAS2Flash
OK so I stepped back a second and rebooted my server and went back to the
Code:
megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
step. Same issue applies when I get to flashing the 6GBPSAS.fw. So this is where I am stuck...
I have tried a couple of different things but to no avail.
Interestingly or perhaps worryingly now when I run
Code:
megacli.exe -AdpAllInfo -aAll -page 20
I get an error stating
. Thankfully I have my SAS address from earlier.exit code 0x01
I have also tried;
Code:
sas2flsh.exe -listall
but I get an error stating the following;
Code:
SAS Address: : Undertermined ERROR: Failed to Upload Image! Firmware information could not be retrived BIOS Version : N/A UEFI BSD Version : N/A FCODE Version : N/A
Really not sure where to go next. Do you have any suggestions on what to try next or spot what I am doing wrong ? Can post screenshots of the full outputs if that will help. I think I need to try this in a UEFI machine next so will need to see if I can dig one out or borrow one from work.