The easiest tutorial to flash the LSI SAS 9211-8i card on motherboards without EFI shell; you can also use it for those motherboards with EFI shell.| TFiR
1. Install and start Dell OMSA stuff, check current version with omreport storage controller 2. Download right BIN for your hardware from dell support page and extract it ./RAID_FRMW_LX_R216024.BIN --extract RAIDFW You may need to: dpkg-reconfigure dash to remove sh->dash linking (answer "no") 3. sasdupie will look for this lib: ln -s /opt/dell/srvadmin/sm/libstorelib.so ./libstorelib.so 4. And final step: ./RAIDFW/sasdupie -u -s RAIDFW/payload/ 5. If outpoot (in XML) says it was done and...| The Sysadmin Wiki
Oh noes, your card isn’t found… While trying to upgrade the firmware on my Supermicro X9DRH-7F board with the built-in SAS2208 LSI card, I ran into a mess of unexpected problems. First off, none of the regular tools and methods seemed to work, unlike almost all the other LSI cards I have worked with. Second, I kept finding a ton of conflicting information all over the net. Lastly it turns out that even Broadcom’s website actually points you to the wrong firmware… ☹ At this point, if...| serverbuilds.net Forums
SAS and SATA are electrically compatible to a degree that allows connecting a SATA storage device to a SAS controller. The SAS controller understands the SATA protocol so this works. A SAS device c…| etbe - Russell Coker
The Dell T320 Almost 2 years ago I made a Dell PowerEdge T320 my home server [1]. It was a decent upgrade from the PowerEdge T110 II that I had used previously. One benefit of that system was that …| etbe - Russell Coker
I recently bought a couple of PowerEdge T320 servers, so now to learn about setting them up. They are a little newer than the R710 I recently setup (which had iDRAC version 6), they have iDRAC vers…| etbe - Russell Coker
I have just updated the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge T110 II. The process isn’t too difficult, Google for the machine name and BIOS, download a shell script encoded firmware image and GPG signatu…| etbe - Russell Coker
A non-profit organisation I support has just bought a Dell PowerEdge T410 server to be mainly used as a file server. We need a reasonable amount of space and really good reliability features becaus…| etbe - Russell Coker