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

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If the card or motherboard seems to become unresponsive or bricked because of the flashing process, these are the recovery instructions, but I should say I have never to do this, it's never been that bad. For FreeNAS you almost always want the IT version of the firmware, but the 9211 variants mainly seem to come in IR versions so they will need cross flashing, to replace the IR version by the IT version, as well as being flashed again to switch from Dell/whoever's firmware to LSI's firmware builds. There is a less likely scenario that would use a reverse breakout cable and that would be to connect an sff-8087 port from a drive backplane to 4 separate SATA ports on your motherboard.

It's not important which EFI shell you use, so do whatever's needed to get into the EFI shell and have those files accessible on USB. Check it can find disks on all ports (if it finds some but not others then sbr might be a factor, it's rare but has been reported, you'll have to Google it or check the link below) and check that the card seems to allow FreeNAS to see a disk on any of its ports, properly.Basic common-sense should apply when crossflashing and if in doubt it will not hurt to be a bit more careful. black thanks, so having No Image for the x86-BIOS won't be an issue or cause the SAS2008 controller to brick when I restart/power off? Before you worry too much about it… the main goal at this time is to get the card to see the drives.

Hybrid disks with onboard NVRam caching shouldn't be an issue since they are usually designed not to have their NVRAM cache seen by the OS, and any hard disk onboard cache will always be unaffected by disconnecting the drive from the controller. But in practice when used for disk control, the duplex capability of SAS doesn't lead to huge extra bandwidth use, for various reasons, and SATA 6Gbit doesn't do full duplex anyway. 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? Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. I’ll tell you right now that I have plugged in sff-8087 connectors upside down before and 4 of my drives on my 4 x 8087 port backplane wouldn’t show up.I agree, and actually did try to make it shorter, but found it hard to cut out material without assuming the viewer had prior knowledge. If there's an issue with disk finding or operation, once on the right firmware, consider the cable first. Utilizing Two Internal X4 Sff8087 Mini-sas Connectors, The Low-profile Sas 9211-8I Is An Excellent Fit For 1u And 2u Servers. The SAS3 HBAs, oldest being the SAS3008 are usually significantly more expensive than the 2308 or 2008; so you'd have to decide if it is worth the expense. I cover EFI and non-LSI (OEM) variant flashing, so that even if the recipe doesn't work, you know enough to do some debugging rather than google and try different flashing tool versions at random, and you know roughly how it needs to work and why.