sactobob
Dabbler
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So following the helpful advice on these forums, I dumped my H700 for an H200. The controller configured in all my drives as JBOD, however FreeNas gives an alert that I need to upgrade firmware to p16.
So finding a bunch of various threads, which all seem to head in different directions. One seem straight forward, but I couldn't flash the binary using sas2flash as I got an error that the controller wasn't an IT controller. Found another thread that said to flash firmware with 6GBPSAS.FW and rom with mptsas2.rom.
However, it appears some of the commands have typos in that tutorial or I'm just going blind. Anyways, I couldn't get the firmware and rom to flash both, (due to that typo), so figured I'd do the firmware first, then the rom. BIG MISTAKE. Firmware went in and then adapter reset and kernal panicked. Now booting the Dell R610 I get an error that says:
The controller no longer shows up once the Dell boots. Trying to boot into Dell's UEFI puts the server in an endless loop of failing to go into uefi and reboots all over again.
I''ve pulled the card and put into a non-dell system and get a similar error, but was at least able to clear flash using megarec (lsi recovery tool), but still can't finish up writing the .rom file. This non-dell system doesn't have uefi ability. But I made a freedos boot disk with mega utilities on it (from yet another google search), and using LSIs megaraid recovery tool I issued "megarec -adplist" command comes back with at least some information that seems hopeful, as it sees the card. That utility also let me clear flash, but trying to write the rom returns
I'm so close, but fear I've created a nice $75 conversation piece of how not to flash a card.
Any further advice or help would be most appreciated.
:(
So finding a bunch of various threads, which all seem to head in different directions. One seem straight forward, but I couldn't flash the binary using sas2flash as I got an error that the controller wasn't an IT controller. Found another thread that said to flash firmware with 6GBPSAS.FW and rom with mptsas2.rom.
However, it appears some of the commands have typos in that tutorial or I'm just going blind. Anyways, I couldn't get the firmware and rom to flash both, (due to that typo), so figured I'd do the firmware first, then the rom. BIG MISTAKE. Firmware went in and then adapter reset and kernal panicked. Now booting the Dell R610 I get an error that says:
Unable to load LSI Corporation MPT BIOS
MPT BIOS fault 05h encountered at adapter PCI (05h,00h,00h)
The controller no longer shows up once the Dell boots. Trying to boot into Dell's UEFI puts the server in an endless loop of failing to go into uefi and reboots all over again.
I''ve pulled the card and put into a non-dell system and get a similar error, but was at least able to clear flash using megarec (lsi recovery tool), but still can't finish up writing the .rom file. This non-dell system doesn't have uefi ability. But I made a freedos boot disk with mega utilities on it (from yet another google search), and using LSIs megaraid recovery tool I issued "megarec -adplist" command comes back with at least some information that seems hopeful, as it sees the card. That utility also let me clear flash, but trying to write the rom returns
Flashing image. Please wait....
Error in downloading image.
Error code = 64
Failed to flash the image. Please retry recovery
I'm so close, but fear I've created a nice $75 conversation piece of how not to flash a card.
Any further advice or help would be most appreciated.
:(
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