SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0

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only due to mobo/CPU limitations; sounds like I'll have to go with SAS2008 cards to make the most out of my money. It may also be known as the firmware for HBA not RAID cards, but a dell/fujitsu card will usually have dell/fujitsu firmwares as well and you'll probably need that as well. After reading posts from this and other forums, I feel like it's not necessary to flash the mtpsas2. Can you un-cable manage the breakout cables (read - take it out of the velcro straps and keep them as far away from other cables and as unbent as possible)and try and isolate them from any other cable interferrence. The principle's the same, you might need different software to create a bootable MSDOS device with MSDOS basic system files on a different type of storage device.

Confusingly, Dell also use the same filename for their IR firmware, you have to check the download package for which it is. I don't mind that it isn't 6gbs but find it incredibly frustrating that for old hardware like that, there is so little information.Read the detailed sections above (erasing) and below (crossflashing) carefully and make your own choice. The recoverability side of things implies to me that as long as you have identical controllers to replace the bad one with, it won't matter.

LSI's P5 flasher will program the manufacturer's early version IT over IR regardless of the make of card you have. On my ASRock test system I hit an oddity that it wouldn't load EFI shell from the boot menu but would run it if I selected "Run EFI from filesystem" from the setup rom's exit menu.The card may have the SAS ID on it somewhere, if you look for it - on a small label or whatever, if it matters. I tried flashing many times to cross flash to LSI 9200-8e and eventually I sorted it by running Megarec. The first thing that went through my mind when I got to that part of the tutorial I linked above was pretty much just "WTF? Luckily, Bryan Vyhmeister has a solution for flashing the 9211-8i via the UEFI shell packaged in the BIOS of many modern motherboards.