LSI 9300-16i Controller not operational - flash firmware

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Hi all,

Im living up to my username and was updating my LSI 9300-16i as the one controller had a really old EFI BIOS.

I have no idea how I did it, but I updated it perfectly fine with the latest bios but with the wrong firmware… I did a SAS9300_8e_IT by accident.

So I tried to wipe it like I did the first time with:

I think this worked, and then I tried to flash it correctly like I did with the incorrect firmware with:

I keep getting:

Is there any way to clear this and flash it again properly?

Or am I borked?

I know the firmware is OK as I just flashed controller 0 with it too and this worked fine.

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I believe in your command you used region 7 instead of region 6 which completely wipes the device including the NVDATA. This may be your issue. If so and assuming you didn’t backup this data before wiping you can use the following command to reset back to default.

sas3flash.efi -c 1 -o -resetnvdata

Give it a reboot after and see how things look.

For future reference this is the command I would have used originally.

sas3flash.efi -o -e 6 -cpci 00 *********

entering the pci address of the card where the ** are

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I keep getting Invalid Command…

But yes thats probably exactly what I did.
I did manage to reinstall the 9300-8e firmware and that takes but it’s obviously incorrect.

I still have the C 0 controller with its NVDATA intact and up and running, is there a way to back that up and copy it over?

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sas3flash.efi -c 1 -o -backupnvdata <backup_file.bin>

sas3flash.efi -c 1 -o -nvdata backup_file.bin

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Adjusting the -c X variable as appropriate I presume.

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Amazing!

I assume -c 0 backup and -c 1 restore the bin

I’m just popping out so I’ll try that this afternoon!

But you may be a lifesaver thank you

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Indeed

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Again I get invalid command -backupnvdata

Is this the right command?

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@Johnny_Fartpants

https://ibb.co/d219H7F

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Looks like you’ve put the command in wrong it’s -nvdata not -backupnvdata

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Ok I have no idea but I got it working!

I cannot thank you enough… got both controllers updated and back online

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Cool. Sorry I misread your last message so ignore that. Glad you’ve got it working.

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Apologies, I know this is an old thread, but I have the exact same issue created by running the same wrong erase command. on my version of sas3flash.efi (17.00.00.00 ) , I dont have an -nvdata command. Oddly, I have the -unvdata to dump the working controller nv data to a file, but cant seem to upload the dump to the broken controller. can anyone clarify the steps ?