IBM M1015 support

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Thanks Michael,

How confident are you that if the card is flashed to 9240 will work?
Don't worry I won't blame you :-)

Thanks.


>
> http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9240-8i.aspx
>
> http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9210-8i.aspx
>
> You can try to flash LSI 9210-8i-fw under DOS environment- but I'm not sure
> if this works. I flashed IBM M1000 (I'm not exactly sure what IBM part it
> was) to LSI 9210-4i4e. This worked, but those are both mpt2sas, not
> megaraid_sas -> mpt2sas.
>
> IIRC I used the following commands
> sas2flsh -o -e 6 -c 0
> sas2flsh -f 2118ir.bin -b mptsas2.rom -c 0
>
> - you have to adjust the firmware file
> - I just saw some options in sas2flsh -o -h:
>
>        -e x:    Erase selected controller's flash region
>                 x = Segment(s) of flash to erase
>                 1 . . . Erase NVSRAM
>                 2 . . . Erase Backup Firmware
>                 3 . . . Erase Persistent Pages including Manufacturing Pages
>                 4 . . . Manufacturing Parameter Block
>                 5 . . . Boot Services
>                 6 . . . Clean Flash (erase all except Manufacturing
> Parameter Block)
>                 7 . . . Erase Complete Flash
>                 8 . . . Erase MegaRAID Firmware
>
>
> So perhaps -o -e 8 is what you want
>
>
> But please don't blame me if you brick it, I rarely have IBM-HW in my hands
> and I don't know if they are really exactly the same as the LSI cards.
>
> Regards,
>  Michael!