Updating a 16i SAS controller when 2 controllers on one card (?)

[averyfreeman]

Hey,

I just wanted to post this since I hadn't seen or heard of it anywhere before

I just bought an LSI-branded 9300-16i from cloudstorage blowing them out on ebay, they're a full-height sas 3008 card (needed something 3008+ to be compatible with ESXi 7.0 - I dabbled with Adaptec for a while, but LSI is where it's at).

Anyway, they basically sandwich two controllers on one card in order to get the 16 channels. But how do you flash two controllers on one card, when the card only has one index? I flashed one "side" of the card, then went back into the bios to mess with the new firmware, but saw that it had only flashed on half the card (orig was v6 - got a Worther's for me, grandpa?)

I figured it out basically just messing with it and reading the reference - it's on page 10 http://www.raid.com.cn/images/editor/files/sas3Flash_quickRefGuide_rev1-0.pdf

I put the firmware, bios and UEFI bios in one dir for convenience, I'm using a Windows 11 "WinToGo" drive (some 3rd party version, I forget the name - the official WinToGo sucks). The command was:

Code:

sas3flash -fwall SAS3008_16i_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom -b mpt3x64.rom

The key is the -fwall flag, obviously. Criticism welcome.

 

[neofusion]

Hey,

I just wanted to post this since I hadn't seen or heard of it anywhere before

I just bought an LSI-branded 9300-16i from cloudstorage blowing them out on ebay, they're a full-height sas 3008 card (needed something 3008+ to be compatible with ESXi 7.0 - I dabbled with Adaptec for a while, but LSI is where it's at).

Anyway, they basically sandwich two controllers on one card in order to get the 16 channels. But how do you flash two controllers on one card, when the card only has one index? I flashed one "side" of the card, then went back into the bios to mess with the new firmware, but saw that it had only flashed on half the card (orig was v6 - got a Worther's for me, grandpa?)

I figured it out basically just messing with it and reading the reference - it's on page 10 http://www.raid.com.cn/images/editor/files/sas3Flash_quickRefGuide_rev1-0.pdf

I put the firmware, bios and UEFI bios in one dir for convenience, I'm using a Windows 11 "WinToGo" drive (some 3rd party version, I forget the name - the official WinToGo sucks). The command was:

Code:

sas3flash -fwall SAS3008_16i_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom -b mpt3x64.rom

The key is the -fwall flag, obviously. Criticism welcome.

So "sas3flash -listall" only shows a single controller?