I’ve been banging my head against this for hours. My Dell H310 was in IR mode this whole time and smart wasn’t being passed through. I tried flashing the firmware via Freedos and EFI and so far am running into a wall of anger and nothingness.
Steps I found online were :
Freedos:
Pull and Save SAS address (done)
megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin (fails, as the instructions say it will)
megarec.exe -cleanflash 0
Reboot into UEFI:
sas2flash.efi -o -f 6GBPSAS.FW (successful) Reboot to UEFI again
sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118it.bin (fails) - ERROR: Cannot flash IT firmware over IR Firmware!
Firmware Image Validation failed.
So I then try
sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118p7.bin (fails) - ERROR: Cannot flash IT firmware over IR Firmware!
Firmware Image Validation failed.
Then I try
sas2flash_p19.efi (sas2flash from the P19 folder of the LSI package) which fails same error.
I can successfully use
sas2flash_p19.efi -o -sasadd %sasaddress%
but at this point I’m stuck and my nas won’t boot.
What should I do next?
Edit: Still in IR mode, but the nas is alive!!! The urgency is greatly lowered at this point.