blakestock
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Hey everyone,
FreeNAS new guy here. I'm building a FreeNAS box with a Dell r510 and bought a perc H310 6GB SAS/SATA PCI-e 3P0R3 from Ebay that I've been reading up on how to flash it to IT mode. I've followed several guides from here and from Googling but none seem to be getting me anywhere. Last article I tried was this one. The H310 works fine as a RAID card and I can build arrays so that tells me it at least works.
I've got a USB flash drive to boot to FreeDOS and it also has all the LSI firmware files on it too. When I boot to FreeDOS and start issuing commands is where I'm having problems. Any switches used sas2flsh.exe comes back something like "No LSI cards found". I can issue "megacli.exe -AdpAllInfo -aAll -page 20" and it spits out all kinds of information about the card including the SAS address. Anytime I issue any commands for megarec.exe to get started flashing is where I have issues. I'll try to issue "megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin" and it's like it just hangs forever and the only thing I can do is reboot the server. The program never says that the card is in Fusion mode or the sbr write failed. I've let it sit for 2 hours and no luck still...
https://imgur.com/f5RPUOl - here's what the screen looks like when it hangs
Any Ideas of what is going on?
Thanks!
FreeNAS new guy here. I'm building a FreeNAS box with a Dell r510 and bought a perc H310 6GB SAS/SATA PCI-e 3P0R3 from Ebay that I've been reading up on how to flash it to IT mode. I've followed several guides from here and from Googling but none seem to be getting me anywhere. Last article I tried was this one. The H310 works fine as a RAID card and I can build arrays so that tells me it at least works.
I've got a USB flash drive to boot to FreeDOS and it also has all the LSI firmware files on it too. When I boot to FreeDOS and start issuing commands is where I'm having problems. Any switches used sas2flsh.exe comes back something like "No LSI cards found". I can issue "megacli.exe -AdpAllInfo -aAll -page 20" and it spits out all kinds of information about the card including the SAS address. Anytime I issue any commands for megarec.exe to get started flashing is where I have issues. I'll try to issue "megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin" and it's like it just hangs forever and the only thing I can do is reboot the server. The program never says that the card is in Fusion mode or the sbr write failed. I've let it sit for 2 hours and no luck still...
https://imgur.com/f5RPUOl - here's what the screen looks like when it hangs
Any Ideas of what is going on?
Thanks!