It’s been a while since I’ve messed with all that and my memory aint what it used to be. I think when the system is booting up you can hit something like Control + C (it should say on the screen) and it will go to the prompt that tells you what mode it’s in among other features.
I messed around and I think I bought the wrong card for my Chenbro project…wasn’t paying close enough attention and ordered a 9280-4i4e. I think maybe I can just put this in JBOD mode instead of IT mode. Near as I can tell there isn’t a way to flash it to IT mode.
edit 2: seller agreed to cancel that order and I ended up buying a 9212-4I4E so we’ll see how that works.
I just signed up to thank you. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with LSI 9212-4i SAS controller card to make it work in IT mode and tried every other forums, but without any luck. But suddenly your post popped up and it saved the day for me. I used your guidelines to flash the 9212-4i to IT mode (Just replaced the firmware from 9211 to 9212). Thanks a bunch man. You’re a true life saver and this is what internet is meant for.
First post in the forum although I’ve followed it for quite some time now, just to shoot a BIG THANK YOU!
I’ve been reading through a lot of your posts that helped me big time to build my rig and that particular guide is just perfect. Applied to the letter and boom it worked!
Hello, this photo shows the LSI 9207-8i from eBay. It is in IT mode apparently, but not indication on whether it works with a UEFI motherboard. Can this be determined from this photo?
hey there, having trouble getting my card to show up in a new proxmox install so I ran across this thread during a search. Tried this card in an old gen 2 core i3 build and it would give intermittent results so I just chalked it up to the age of the board and boxed it until I got this newer gen 9 core i7 build put together.
I got through the guide to the point of sas2flash.efi -listall, and the first time I ran it I got a result that seems to match what the suggested fw update above provides, so seemed like I was up to date.
Then I went to run sas2flash.efi -list just to get some more info on the card to see if I could figure out how to find it in my system files in proxmox, and now I am getting the error indicating no card is attached! Same when I try to run again with -listall flag. Flaky card I guess? Any other ideas?
BTW got this card from ebay seller which said it was flashed to IT mode already, had already bought this same card from same seller running fine in another system with no fiddling. Should have reached out/researched more when it wouldn’t run in that old build I guess. Too late to return at ths point.
