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

[Russ Price]

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/>