Trying to see what version of my sas controlers are useing

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1

ran both these cammands.
sas2Flash is giving me an error.
sas 9300 16i cards there are 2 of them

root@truenas:~# lspci|grep SAS
09:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
0b:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
0f:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
11:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
root@truenas:~# sas2flash -listall
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved

    No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!
    ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!
    ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -listall
    Exiting Program.

root@truenas:~#

2

try sas3flash -listall

As you have a SAS3 controller.

3

sweet that worked.
Now how to flash newer firmware on them if needed.




root@truenas:~# sas3flash -listall
Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
Version 16.00.00.00 (2017.05.02) 
Copyright 2008-2017 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.

        Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3008(C0)

Num   Ctlr            FW Ver        NVDATA        x86-BIOS         PCI Addr
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

0  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:09:00:00
1  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:0b:00:00
2  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:0f:00:00
3  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:11:00:00

        Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
        Exiting SAS3Flash.
4

That’s very old.

5

i had a feeling it was running an old firmwere. given that i cant connect more than 12 drives and my case supports 24. :disappointed:
yes i tried multiple backplanes and different cables.

6

I’d be surprised if flashing the FW changes this.

7

Put the firmware and sas3flash.efi on a FAT-formatted USB drive and boot to the UEFI shell.

8

Its so close but so far… i seem to have flashed one of them but not the other 3…
how to fix?

        Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3008(C0)

Num   Ctlr            FW Ver        NVDATA        x86-BIOS         PCI Addr
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

0  SAS3008(C0)  16.00.12.00    0e.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:09:00:00
1  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:0b:00:00
2  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:0f:00:00
3  SAS3008(C0)  07.00.01.00    07.01.00.03    08.15.00.00     00:11:00:00

        Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
        Exiting SAS3Flash.
root@truenas:
9

And never mind i found the command that works for me. i have 2 SAS9300 16i.
Dont do this if you have mixed sas controllers

command ran

sas3flash -fwall SAS9300_xx_IT.bin

(replace SAS9300_xx_IT.bin with correct .bin file. For your sas controller/s)

10

With mixed controllers, you specify the number of the target controller : -c 1

11

I wouldn’t. P7 is ancient and the SAS3 firmware saw a lot of improvements over a relatively short period until things stabilized at around P16, which got crystallized as the firmware release series by virtue of gen1 SAS3 controllers never getting P17 and newer.

12

I’ve seen sooooo many lost pools and other issues with LSI controllers in these forums, while using older firmware. It’s definitely a problem the OP needs to resolve.

13

both sas controllers are running version 16 now the problem has been resolved.