LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s Controller Card

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I am using BIOS boot in an EFI system (a personal workaround from the past), but the new non-grub FreeNas bootloader seems to have resolved my old issue, and I think now is a good time to switch. All answered here: https://www.ixsystems.com/community...-lsi-9211-9300-9305-9311-hba-and-variants.54/

LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 RAID

If you want to keep using the IR-mode and are happy with the firmware's version then you don't have to do anything. Disclaimer & warning Hopefully, you have a better idea of the 9211-8i HBA card and how you can use it in your homelab and home server needs. This card has a fascinating history but is still affordable for the features it enables, whereas similar cards could cost hundreds of dollars more. If I do the above command for one card then for the second card don't include the -b flag will that ensure the bios isn't loaded?.. no idea why the dates are off, probably a documentation bug, most everything in this .zip file is dated March 2016, except the BIOS date is right)When using the combo of LSI SAS 9211-8i —> HP SAS Expander —> Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drives, the Hitachi drives will only connect at SATA 150 speeds. Drives will connect at SATA 600 when directly connected to the HBA. mpsutil also shows BIOS version 7.19 and UEFI version 7.18 - these also seem outdated. I found a 7.39 BIOS and a 7.27 UEFI.

Convert LSI 9211-8i HBA card to IT mode - nguvu.org Convert LSI 9211-8i HBA card to IT mode - nguvu.org

For a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. To the question why I haven’t used my server board for flashing – I’ve tried and failed. My current server is built with some exotic industrial mini-ITX. I've issued troubles and couldn't find any information in the web. I thought all i needed was to crossflash it and move on but reading some posts seems like I need to upgrade to P16 firmware to make Freenas happy. Couldnt find a detailed post on this. I used this guide for the most part http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ and havent installed Freenas as of yet. Since I'm booting FreeNAS from flash drives, I decided to run sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118it.bin to exclude the BIOS, and that worked perfectly (after erase). This reduced the server's boot time by probably 10-20 seconds too.

However, the link to a file required for this procedure "Shell_Full.efi" no longer exists and when googling for it, I can only find the faulty version that throws the “InitShellApp: Application not started from Shell” error. Can anyone please send me the correct file? With IR the card itself takes control of how the data is written to the disks and how it is presented to the OS. The dmesg output and mpsutil output shows that it detected *something* new when hot-plugged into New Slots, but FreeNas is not getting updated to attach them.

is 8+ drives really possible on LSI 9211-8i? - TrueNAS is 8+ drives really possible on LSI 9211-8i? - TrueNAS

TrueNAS 13.0-U5.3, X9SCM-F, Xeon E3-1230 v2, 32GB ECC RAM, 6x4TB WD Red/Red+ in RaidZ2, SAS9211-8i HBA, mix SSD/laptop-HDD boot drives, Solarflare SFN6122F 10G between boxes. You can reboot then, when Controller initializes press control-C to define boot device, and then go into the system bios for set boot device. Copy Shell_Full.efi to the tools directory and rename it to ‘shell.efi’. Copy these three files – sas2flash.efi, 2118it.bin and mptsas2.rom to the root directory, so the structure looks like this: These are instructions for the specific case of a normal PC having an Asus UEFI bios and SecureBoot not being used. In your specific case you might have to perform additional actions or skip others.

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Reboot (should be much faster now in IT-mode) and if you want get into the card's BIOS => it should look very different compared to before. Running Freenas 11.2-U8 on a Dell Poweredge T310 on an aftermarket OEM LSI HBA card already in IT mode, that I thought was an LSI 9211-8i, but it turns out its actually an OEM IBM 9200 / SAS2008. I went for the 9211-8i for 270 CHF as I don't have a PCIEx4 on my motherboard (wouldn't have been great to waste the PCIEx16 slot for a x4 card) and the price difference between the 4i and the 8i and my budget wasn't too big. IR: Integrated Raid. The card itself writes extra proprietary informations to the devices => such devices can therefore be read only by compatible HW. You need the absolute latest firmware (mid-June, version 10, I believe) to enable proper communication between the 9211-8i and the HP SAS Expander.

LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s

ABOUT USServeTheHome is the IT professional's guide to servers, storage, networking, and high-end workstation hardware, plus great open source projects. I believe it is from the same family as the 9210-8i so may have the same driver, there is no win 10 but the 8.1 driver should work. try to install it normally first if that does not work try installing it in compatibility mode. So I think I have all the files for the firmware upgrade, and an idea of the firmware flash command / process, I used this procedure to flash a couple of 9211-4i cards to IT mode over remote KVM / IPMI on servers I rent for work. This was a bit of a challenge to get done. This info was very helpful, so I thought I'd say thanks (thanks!) and leave some additional clues to anyone trying to do this in the future over remote KVM with virtual media. Not really. A good SAS expander and all the disks on one controller works better than two controllers. I have tried it both ways.After finding some PDFs with various bit of info on LSI’s range of host bus adapters (HBAs) I thought I would bring them here to help anyone looking at using one. LSI HBA cards are great way to add fast storage beyond the motherboard supplied SAS and SATA ports. A LSI HBA is a simple disk controller and is great for adding well supported, reliable and low cost SAS and SATA ports to a server. One additional benefit of the LSI HBA line is that you can pass disks directly through to the OS, without needing a RAID layer. This is important for advanced storage systems such as ZFS where you do not want hardware controllers to interfere. These LSI HBA’s often come in configurable Firmware options ie IT for JBOD only, or IR mode for simple RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10.) Another key benefit is that the LSI HBA lineup tends to be very popular with OEMs such as IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle, Fujitsu, Intel, Supermicro and others, so driver support is generally strong regardless of the OS you are using. I determined sas2flash P20 has 1 additional important sounding option, than P16 (as was in Freenas): "-sbr" however I did not even need to use it. It seemed to detect that it needed to run this option itself.