IBM M1115 Flash To IT Mode

jeffery30162 · July 12, 2019

I recently purchased one of these from ebay and tested it before attempting to flash and it works with its stock firmware.
So I then did some research to see if I could follow a tutorial to flash a IBM M0115 and yes. Others have had success following the M0115 to flash the M1115.
So I followed this tutorial https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/
I was able to do this part successfully:

megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
megarec -cleanflash 0

but after that sas2flash.efi was not able to detect the card nor now megarec cannot detect it either.
I have tried several different motherboards from different companies (Supermicro, Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte) with no luck.
Could someone help me solve this issue?

Thanks

kirashi · July 14, 2019

On 7/12/2019 at 1:12 PM, jeffery30162 said:

I recently purchased one of these from ebay and tested it before attempting to flash and it works with its stock firmware.
So I then did some research to see if I could follow a tutorial to flash a IBM M0115 and yes. Others have had success following the M0115 to flash the M1115.
So I followed this tutorial https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/
--SNIP--
but after that sas2flash.efi was not able to detect the card nor now megarec cannot detect it either.
I have tried several different motherboards from different companies (Supermicro, Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte) with no luck.
Could someone help me solve this issue?

You might need to flash the erased card from UEFI boot mode instead of non-UEFI boot mode based on a few forum threads where people have had similar issues detecting the M1115 card after erasing it. Could also be PCIe Gen 2 lane compatibility with certain motherboards, although since you've tried 4+ boards, that's probably not the issue... I don't have one of these cards to test myself (although I'd love one) but that's what I'm guessing is the issue.

https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/m1015-vs-m1115.15799/

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/m1115-cross-flash-to-it-mode.804/