{"id":39,"date":"2013-02-11T00:24:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-02-11T00:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:24:03","slug":"how-i-enable-raid-on-the-lsi-sas-9207-8i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"How I enable RAID on the LSI SAS 9207-8i"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the post<\/a> by Bryn V. \u00a0is was able to enable the RAID features on my LSI SAS 9207-8i<\/strong> controller.
\nHere are the steps: \u00a0*** WARNING *** this could easily brick your controller. \u00a0Please read Bryn’s \u00a0and others post.<\/p>\n

1) download the LSI UEFI installer: “Installer_P15_for_UEFI.zip
\n2) download the P15 BIOS and Firmware: “9207_8i_Package_P13.5_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip”
\n3) Extract to USB Disk “9217-8i.bin”, “mptsas2.rom”, and “sas2flash.efi”
\n4) Boot to UEFI BIOS
\n5) At the Shell> prompt \u00a0type “map”
\n6)\u00a0At the Shell> prompt \u00a0type “fs0:”
\n7) At the Shell> prompt type “sas2flsh.efi -listall\"
\n8<\/span>) At the Shell> prompt type \"sas2flsh.efi -o -e 7\"
\n<\/code><\/em><\/code>9) At the Shell> prompt type \"<\/span>sas2flsh.efi\u00a0<\/code><\/code><\/em><\/em><\/em>-o -f 9217-8i.bin -b mptsas2.rom\"
\n<\/code>10) At the Shell> prompt type “sas2flsh.efi -listall\"<\/code><\/p>\n

I\u00a0verified\u00a0the BIOS was updated and rebooted.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the post by Bryn V. \u00a0is was able to enable the RAID features on my LSI SAS 9207-8i controller. Here are the steps: \u00a0*** WARNING *** this could easily brick your controller. \u00a0Please read Bryn’s \u00a0and others post. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lsi-sas-9207-8i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}