freedos.img-with-LSI-9211-8i.zip

This is a dd-ready drive image with FreeDOS and all the files from LSI-9211-8i.zip to flash your Dell H200 RAID controller to a dumb HBA (IT firmware). May also be used to flash other SAS2008-based controllers.

Usage

1. Download the image and unpack it:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximko/freedos.img-with-LSI-9211-8i.zip/master/FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-2048M-LSI-9211-8i.zip.img.zst && zstdmt -d FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-2048M-LSI-9211-8i.zip.img.zst

2. Write the image to a drive using dd as usual:

dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-2048M-LSI-9211-8i.zip.img of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress

3. Boot FreeDOS and change directory to lsi/

cd lsi

4. Follow this guide to perform crossflash
5. Carefully read this post in case of troubles

Notes

• You also can remotely mount this image using Virtual Media or similar feature. I've successfully used it with Avocent MPU2016 IP-KVM
• I had no luck to flash my H200 using Dell R510 server no matter of PCIe slot or bios settings. I did that using non-raid pcie slot of my Fujitsu RX200-S8
• If you want to boot from attached drives you also need to flash x64sas2.rom and/or mptsas2.rom (mind the -b option insted of -f). Look for it somewhere in FIRMWARE/:

sas2flsh.exe -o -b x64sas2.rom

sas2flsh.exe -o -b mptsas2.rom

Sources

• LSI-9211-8i.zip found in this awesome guide
• FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-2048M.img backed up from this site found in archlinux wiki bios flashing article

Everything else

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