Missing internal SAS controller on X10SL7-F

[Mark Francis]

Hi, I'm on my second Supermicro X10SL7-F and am unable to see the LSI SAS menu on boot. My goal is to flash the IT firmware to use SATA drives.

* I can confirm that the motherboard jumpers are not set to disable SAS (JPS1)
* I don't see an option in the BIOS "PCI/PNP Configuration -> Load Onboard SAS Option ROM" at all.
* Booting to a linux live boot device (I'm more familiar with Linux), no SAS controllers are found

Code:

server:/tmp$ ./sas2flash
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved

        No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!
        Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
        Exiting SAS2Flash.

Please see my attached bios settings. I don't see an LSI prompt on boot at all.

I guess it's possible that both my boards are broken in the same specific way, but I think that's unlikely.

 

[Mark Francis]

I wish I could be more helpful here, but it looks like updating the bios brought back the flash screen on boot. I might have tweaked something else, but I'm almost certain it was just a BIOS update. I wasn't expecting to fix anything so I didn't take notes of the BIOS i started from, but here's where I ended up:

Firmware Revision: 03.88
Firmware Build Time: 02/21/2020
BIOS Version: 3.4
BIOS Build Time: 03/10/2021
Redfish Version: 1.0.1

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