Developer.ps

Freenas Warning 2

| February 29th, 2016

External SAS card: LSI 9300-8e

Downloaded first the installer from:
http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8e#downloads
The Installer: Installer_P9_for_FreeBSD
Firmware and Bios: 9300_8e_Package_P9_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows
To flash it, I moved the installed and the firmware and bios files to Freenas.
Before flashing, I had to make sure the SAS controller is in IT mode by executing
```
sas3flash -list
```
I could see that : Firmware Product ID : 0x2221 (IT) So it’s on IT mode, otherwise I would have done it in UEFI shell

Then executed the following:

sas3flash -o -f SAS9300_8e_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom

The firmware was updated. The problem I loaded the firmware 11 instead of 9. To fix this I had to do the following:

I had to erase and reload everything. To erase:
```
sas3flash -o -e 7
```
Then I tried to load but it gave me this error: ERROR: Failed to get valid NVDATA image from File! Firmware Image Validation Failed!
Can’t erase!!
I had to run the installer under UEFI. so I downloaded the UEFI installer from here: http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8e#downloads. Download Installer_P9_for_UEFI.
Booted into UEFI shell.
sas3flash.efi -list. Very Important to write down the whole SAS address since we will erase it.
Started erasing(level 7):

sas3flash.efi -o -e 7

Execute (in my case I needed SAS9300_8e version 9):

sas3flash.efi -o -f SAS9300_8e_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom

Then added the SAS address by executing:

sas3flash.efi -o -sasadd 500605b00b606470

Open the FreeNas web interface to check if the problem disappeared.