On 08/30/2011 01:40 PM, oi-disc...@mho.nu wrote: > There are different firmwares for that controller: one that handles > SAS+SATA 1.5Gb+SATA 3Gb and one that does SAS+SATA 3Gb+SATA 6Gb. > > See > http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/LSI%20SAS%203081E-R.aspx > > (Don't know if there is any corresponding "Intel" firmware, but > crossflashing has worked for me)
On 08/31/2011 04:50 PM, Russ Price wrote: > On 08/30/2011 05:12 PM, Rich wrote: >> FWIW, crossflashing from IR to IT or vice-versa requires that you boot >> into DOS with their flasher and firmware, nuke the existing firmware, >> and replace it - hopefully not rebooting in the middle, because your >> card would be a brick if you did. :) >> >> Of course, if you did this, and it still refused to flash once you'd >> removed the firmware entirely, I don't have any thoughts. >> >> c.f. http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16266.aspx >> > > It was a vendor check that caused the flash to fail - and I found the solution > (but haven't had time to try it yet) at: > > <http://www.servethehome.com/flashing-intel-sasuc8i-lsi-firmware-guide/> I followed the instructions to crossflash the HBA firmware and BIOS, and it works smoothly now using the P20 IT firmware. I tried one of my Seagate ST3500413AS drives on my junk pool, and it works just fine. It was NOT necessary to remove the old firmware (according to LSI, that applies to 6 Gb HBAs, and the SASUC8I is a 3 Gb unit). In case the instruction page disappears, the command line from the DOS flash utility was: sasflash -o -f 3081ETB3.fw -b mptsas.rom There is one strange thing I've noticed under the IT firmware, though. Namely, the device names have been scrambled, and no longer correspond to the ports on the card, as they had under the Intel IR firmware. old -> new c4t0d0 -> c4t3d0 c4t1d0 -> c4t4d0 c4t2d0 -> c4t0d0 c4t3d0 -> c4t1d0 c4t4d0 -> c4t5d0 c4t5d0 -> c4t6d0 c4t6d0 -> c4t7d0 c4t7d0 -> c4t2d0 Then, when I offlined the new c4t0d0 (a WD5000AAKS) and replaced it with the Seagate, the newly-inserted drive became c4t8d0. I do recall that Seagate indicates their new SATA Barracudas have WWN capability. I'm assuming that the assignment to c4t8d0 is a side effect of this... _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
