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SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0

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Perhaps this is another dumb question, but once it is working, those drives should just show up in windows correct? This Hba Offers Dynamic Sas Functionality Including Dual-port Drive Redundancy And Sata Compatibility. Unfortunately, depending on your M/B (and that's why the M/B is relevant in this), you will require a different shell, and will need to follow different steps to access it. So even once you've flashed from Dell IR to Dell IT firmware (or whatever brand it is), you still can't jump directly to LSI latest IT firmware using a recent flasher, because the recent flashers just won't let you. You should be able to see the drives in the BIOS of the card though, I just dont know what that looks like to tell you how.

But they don't always discuss the subtleties of doing it on an EFI board for users who may never have used EFI before, and there's a lot of relevant background that "falls in the cracks" and causes frustration when it doesn't go as expected. Some say it's a risk to reboot without reflashing some firmware at least, or without a note of the old SAS ID. The firmware and boot rom files, and sometimes the flashers, are often wrapped up in zip or exe files which need to be unpacked and the relevant files extracted. You can get the SAS ID and other card firmware info if you want it, at this step (not essential, but doesn't hurt). short answer is that if your hardware can handle the >2TB limit, you probably don't have to worry about drive size limitations (at least from the hardware) for quite some time.To do the other cards, open the script in Notepad or a text editor, it's got maybe 4 lines that start "!

So after crossflashing the HBA the disks were not visible in the BIOS when I hadn't flashed the roms. If the card or motherboard seems to become unresponsive or bricked because of the flashing process, these are the recovery instructions, but I should say I have never to do this, it's never been that bad. In other words, can you use the LSI P5 flasher to jump in a single step from (say) Dell P7 IT to LSI P20 IT, or do you have to go via the LSI P7 IT?All of my experience with HBAs has been limited to server type installations normally running FreeNAS or UnRaid. added new section on cards, chipsets and their variants at the start of the guide, with a link to a comprehensive resource list. Don't assume what you have (unless extremely sure) - always check with the sas2flash -listall command to verify exactly what controllers the flasher software thinks it's detecting, before erasing or programming any controller. Sellers for both the drives (8tb sas) and NAS have confirmed that the HDDS and NAS were working perfectly before. And I am quite surprised that legacy hardware can be better; my impressions is that usually people would advise to just upgrade to avoid wasting time on troubleshooting but this seems like a special case.

com/gp/product/B012BPLYJC They’re relatively cheap so if you want to take a crack at different cabling again it wouldn’t break the bank.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/ that was mentioned in a older post here I ran into a issue when creating the bootable USB.

It’s kind of a long shot but those tiny blue sata breakout cables are very tiny and thus not well shielded from electrical interference. Enter your motherboard BIOS/setup panel and disable orom on boot for storage cards or for that specific card, if enabled (so the card's misflashed state can't interfere with proper booting). Some guides also leave people in doubt what's "safe" or "best" to erase and how much should be erased (Should I use -o -e 6 or -o -e 7? Especially, unplug anything with an "under the hood" hidden LSI controller that you don't want flashed by mistake, such as some SSDs:). The firmware most people will want to get working is LSI/Avago/Broadcom IT software (currently version P20).

The zip file attached to this resource is already set up to allow booting both EFI and MSDOS if your board allows it - just copy its contents to the USB stick root directory and choose which one to boot to. If I'm using an LSI RAID card on a SuperMicro server motherboard, I shouldn't need to do the UEFI thing right? I would attach a screenshot of my drive if I could, but I used the rufus tool and followed the guide but not sure if I missed something.

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