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

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FIRMWARE/BOOT ROM VERSIONS, VARIANTS AND THEIR USUAL FILENAMES: The firmware file itself comes in two variants, depending if it's to be used as an HBA (the "IT" version) or a RAID card (the "IR" version).

I want to underline that last bit - most versions of sas2flash either did not properly erase the card for me, or hit issues trying to erase it.

There is a guide for cross flashing Dell PERC H310 to LSI, it’s essentially 9211-8i with Dell firmware.

The command takes a single string of 16 hex digits, so do not include any hyphens, underscores, spaces or punctuation, even if the original SAS ID included them. Now, I don't want to brick my LSI my first time flashing, so I wanted to nail down the commands from the guide I linked, but to not include the BIOS portion. Add up the total bandwidth of all disks attached to the HBA, and compare it to the total PCIe bandwidth to the motherboard (lanes in use x bandwidth per lane) for PCIe 2 or 3, and for whatever number of lanes the card+slot have (or the lowest if they differ), to see if you'll hit a serious risk of a bottleneck.Otherwise treat the rest of this section as general information to skim over, and take what action you prefer. It may also be known as the firmware for HBA not RAID cards, but a dell/fujitsu card will usually have dell/fujitsu firmwares as well and you'll probably need that as well. 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).

This post is merely a documentation on my way to success, and I provide this info in the hopes it might be useful to somebody. And ah I see, that makes sense, having known working drivers certainly makes deployment and troubleshooting easier!This guide will work whether you have one or multiple 9211-style cards installed, but it's not unreasonable to do them one at a time.

However the important thing is checking there aren't any hidden LSI controllers, before we do any erasing or flashing. Lets say I try the first one and it turns out to be the wrong one, could that hurt my hardware or would it simply not run it? Can I simply attach the orphaned SFF-8087 cable to that available port on the LSI to get the remaining 4 drives connected or will it not work because it's expecting an expander since there's an expander on the other port?So this guide isn't just a recipe - I will try to cover enough general info and background about the shells, the cards and the softwares/firmwares, so that if it still doesn't work for you, you might be able to work it out and fix it anyway. I am pretty sure their RAID cards (L8i) can be reflashed to IT mode using their own flasher as well, but you can easily check this with Supermicro tech support if you find one that's cheap. Note that some motherboards come with onboard LSI chips; if yours has one then take great care and ask around what to do, before going further. Due to a case switch, I now use 3 of them along with an Intel SAS expander over 2 chassis and all is totally groovey. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again.