[OmniOS-discuss] lsi sas 9211-8i it efi firmware 20.00.02.00

[Schweiss, Chip]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Stephan Budach <stephan.budach at jvm.de>
wrote:

> Am 09.03.15 um 15:47 schrieb Dan McDonald:
>
>> On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Eric Sproul <eric.sproul at circonus.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Brogyányi József <brogyi at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone tested this firmware? Is it free from this error message
>>>> "Parity
>>>> Error on path"?
>>>> Thanks any information.
>>>>
>>> P20 firmware is known to be toxic; just google for "lsi p20 firmware"
>>> for the carnage.
>>>
>>> P19 and below are fine, as far as I know.
>>>
>> I've not heard good things about 19.  I HAVE heard that 18 is the best
>> level of FW to run for right now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dan
>>
> Is there a known good way to flash a LSI back to P18 if it already came
> with P19? I happen to have two new LSIs running P19.
> Afaik, the readme explicitly warns about flashing back the fw…
>
>
Backwards is hard.  I went through that trying to get v20 reverted on some
new HBAs.

The only method I could find that worked was using the UEFI shell and UEFI
sas2flash utility to erase the firmware and install the old version.  On
older motherboards, the DOS method should work. Solaris/Illumos sas2flash
is incapable of erasing the firmware.

-Chip





> Cheers,
> budy
>
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