LSI 9311 Trouble flashing.

[Rest_Assured]

I started running into issues in freenas on this card about 24 hours after installing it and setting up a pool and a couple VMs. Freenas completely locked up and the console threw several errors. I rebooted and the LSI card stated the it was unable to load.

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MPT BIOS fault 0Dh encountered at adapter PCI(...)

 

I went online and found there may have been an issue with older firmware and went to update. I made an EFI bootable usb that took me to the EFI shell and ran "sas3flash.efi -c 0 -b mpt3x64.rom from the SAS3_UEFI_BSD_P14" package. But, this too threw an error.

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Chip is not operational. Please provide Firmware.

 

I then tried flashing both IT and IR firmware from 9311_8i_Package_P15_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows. via sas3flash.efi -o -f SAS9300_8i_IT.bin but get an error as well.

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Chip is in RESET state. Attempting Host Boot...
Firmware Host Boot Failed.

 

I think i'm stuck with a DOA card, or me fiddling around flashing the card wiped it irreversibly. Anyone with experience able to jump in on this?

 

Thanks!

[leadeater]

Sounds dead to me, usually updating the firmware is simple and just works. If it had faulted during or after the firmware update I would question if that broke it but for it to just fail during normal operation that is most likely a hardware fault and it's dead.