LSI IT Mode Stuck

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I bought an older LSI SAS card. Not sure how to get it into IT mode. Is there a straight forward tutorial?

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long instructions here:

edit: looking up the video guide I used. lost the link.

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The last time I did it was at like 10PM after working all day. Wasn’t so bad

… and we do have someone here who’s been balls deep in the EFI shell for like three months now. I dunno if NorthernWing has flashed an HBA before, but it can’t be too much trouble after all the other shenanigans.

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My Go-To guy, theartofserver does not have a video generally flashing, but has a few of specific cards

like this one:

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IIRC you can either flash it from a DOS/Windows utility like Trooper’s guide or from a UEFI shell. I flashed the card in my NAS using their UEFI tool, it’s not that bad - you’ll need a USB stick with a UEFI shell of any kind, the UEFI firmware tool, and firmware image. The guide below does a better step-by-step walkthrough than I would, but the short version is this -

  • Download and place an EFI shell executable at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI on a FAT32 formatted flash drive.
  • Place the LSI firmare utility and image somewhere on the drive, doesn’t really matter where as long as they’re together.
  • Boot from the flash drive and you’ll get a command line. Navigate to where you put the firmware utility (run MAP -b to list your devices, then FSx: onto the correct one and cd to the directory)
  • Run the firmware utility .EFI executable and that’s it. There are probably some command line arguments for your specific card, the manual for the tool or readme with the firmware image should have that.
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