LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s Controller Card

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Once the RAID is gone and the drives are passed through and the OS takes care of striping and Parity these controllers simply fly. This client has a virtual media feature that allows you to attach ISOs, hard drives, flash drives, etc. I believe it is from the same family as the 9210-8i so may have the same driver, there is no win 10 but the 8. I moved this site 6 months ago and noticed only now that I lost the files there were referenced in the original article => now you should have everything.

LSI 9211-8i SAS2008 6.0gbps SAS 2/ SATA III RAID 0/1/10

As long as you have the correct version of IT firmware (currently P20) on your 9211, FreeNAS should see all the drives you have connected through the expander. rom" (I have added the " _hey" just to avoid that you flash junk into your card as you might use these instructions e. The new LSI 9206-16e will come equiped with two SAS2308 controllers, no PLX bridge and on a more standard PCIe Gen3 x8 interface. I went therefore ~65% over my original budget but at least this setup allowed me to connect up to 8 additional disks.

For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives.

LSI SAS 9211-8i host adapter and firmware update LSI SAS 9211-8i host adapter and firmware update

The LSI 9211-i8 HBA controller has two ports - one to the Intel expander and the other port is currently free. sorry, check on places like the wayBack Machine, they have a application section for programs, drivers and firmware for older hardware that's organization has gone out of business, i got my windows 98 sound card driver from there! And I think if I flash the new firmware over top, and just leave off the -b BIOS or UEFI part, it will remove the BIOS, and I can skip BIOS detection. Reboot (should be much faster now in IT-mode) and if you want get into the card's BIOS => it should look very different compared to before.

I noticed that these servers have a built in EFI shell, so I booted to that and was able to follow the procedure from step 13 on using the files I had copied over to the flash drive ( map -b to show a list of attached drives, fs1: (or whatever number) to use the drive, and so on). One additional benefit of the LSI HBA line is that you can pass disks directly through to the OS, without needing a RAID layer. I find it really unlikely/odd that the servers have been put on a shelf for three years and now IBM wants to sell them but with some upgraded parts like this card. Took me 6 hours to figure out all this (I always tried to ignore as much as I could about UEFI and SecureBoot).

LSI SAS 9211-8i on Motherboards - TFiR Easiest Way To Flash LSI SAS 9211-8i on Motherboards - TFiR

If you happen to be on a card that doesn’t have the ‘boot to EFI Shell’ option, like me, this tutorial is meant for you. My used HW: USB stick + Desktop PC (not the server board) with a motherboard Asus P9X79 WS (hosting i7-3930K + 16GB RAM but it doesn’t matter). and leave some additional clues to anyone trying to do this in the future over remote KVM with virtual media.This performance saving is due to the HBA cards having integrated processors responsible for managing these IO operations and other features like RAID natively on the HBA card. But since all of these cards are using the same underlying design they are in fact identical cards regardless of the manufacturer. Since the card will be handling operations on the disk, the individual drives you have connected to the HBA card won't be transparently passed through to your host OS. You can reboot then, when Controller initializes press control-C to define boot device, and then go into the system bios for set boot device.