[OpenIndiana-discuss] 6 GB SATA drives on SAS HBAs

[Rich]

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

- Rich

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Russ Price <rjp_sun at fubegra.net> wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 01:40 PM, oi-discuss at 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)
>
>
> Thanks for the link!
>
> Last time I tried crossflashing (I tried to install IT firmware), it didn't
> work; the installer refused to install the firmware. I'll have to try again
> sometime. I'm still running the stock Intel IR firmware (which, fortunately,
> presents individual drives to the system in its stock configuration).
>
> I hope it works out better this time.
>
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