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

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It seems, that some bios recognized that the card was not anymore an H200 but it is changed to the another card.

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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. I know firmware 20 is out, and I now wish to upgrade = hopefully then it will detect hotswap. (unless i'm unaware of something) 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. 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.mps0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xdf1bc000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 I came across numerous errors as I tried different tutorials, the biggest one was gaining access to EFI shell. I tried Rufus method, I tried simply formatting the drive to FAT partition and creating /boot/efi/….nothing worked. When something worked, I got this error. “ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting the program.” All together, it’s over 50TB to add to my storage. I figure that some will essentially be “server mirrors”, by essentially having everything from a “critical data” server mirrored to the “mirror’s” drives which will likely be in a RAID10 array… And I think if I flash the new firmware over top, and just leave off the -b BIOS or UEFI part, it will remove the BIOS, and I can skip BIOS detection. I need to install ZFS filesystem on this server, so I have to use the controller in passthrough mode, and JBOD. No Raid is required at all. To do this, I need to have the card flashed in target mode, by using the IT firmware.

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I went therefore ~65% over my original budget but at least this setup allowed me to connect up to 8 additional disks. IT vs IR Firmware Instead of Megarec.exe, i just ran the sas2flsh.exe -c 0 -o -e 7 command to erase it first, and hoped for the best.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 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.

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If you happen to be on a card that doesn’t have the ‘boot to EFI Shell’ option, like me, this tutorial is meant for you. If you have such motherboard skip the section on how to create a bootable drive. 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.Just a note on compatibility with the LSI SAS 9211-8i, the HP SAS Expander, and the Hitach 5K3000 3TB drives: