From nobody Wed Jun 23 15:26:12 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B225D260F for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:26:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: from udns.ultimatedns.net (static-24-113-41-81.wavecable.com [24.113.41.81]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "ultimatedns.net", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4G96YK2khVz4ts4 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:26:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: from ultimatedns.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimatedns.net (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTP id 15NFQCm1095531; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:26:12 -0700 From: Chris To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Cc: "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-current Subject: Re: storcli: howto crossflash Fujitsu PRAID400i to LSI3008 HBA? In-Reply-To: References: <20210623130455.60efd02f@freyja> User-Agent: UDNSMS/17.0 Message-ID: X-Sender: bsd-lists@bsdforge.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4G96YK2khVz4ts4 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[freebsd]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 2021-06-23 08:15, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 01:04:59PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >> I have a bunch of Fujitsu PRAID400i Controller from some servers we switch >> to >> FreeBSD driven systems and ZFS. I will not use RAID controllers with ZFS so >> I >> tried to cross flash these controllers, but without any success. The DOS >> tools >> I use produce on several mainboards a PAL error. The motherboard's UEFI I >> uitilise doesn't provide a UEFI shell, so at that point it seems I'm stuck. >> I >> found the FreeBSD port storcli, but the tool doesn't crossflash - or it >> doesn't >> reveal its magic knobs to do so. > > You can download an UEFI shell online and use it to boot on a USB > thumbstick or something. > > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/UDK2018/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell > > I've used that in the past to update multiple IBM M1215 and a 9400-8i8e. Yes that's true. But the tools provided by the different vendors are unreasonably particular about their environment. So I've found that "one size does not fit all". :-( But who knows? Maybe it'll work? --Chris