LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s Controller Card

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Thanks Patrick, I plan on using this in a 24 drive WHS 2011 build that will end up using a software based DE solution. You need the absolute latest firmware (mid-June, version 10, I believe) to enable proper communication between the 9211-8i and the HP SAS Expander. All I did was crossflash the HBA Card, update Bios and Firmware and just want to make sure nothing was overlooked before I install Freenas. Currently the whole system is working, but it only detects drives during BIOS, and drives passed through to FreeNas works, except HotPlug/ Hotswap is not working. I wanted to use the IT mode for various reasons (mainly no dependencies towards specific HW + wanted to have full control of performance) and I had therefore to flash the card's firmware and load the one for the IT-mode.

LSISAS9211-8i PCI Express to 6Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter LSISAS9211-8i PCI Express to 6Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter

As I understand it, I just need to run it in IT Mode when dealing with LSI cards and WHS will see the drives as if they were plugged directly in. If you have a very old PC/server that does not have a UEFI bios you can use a normal MSDOS bootable OS like FreeDOS and that should be it. The goal of STH is simply to help users find some information about server, storage and networking, building blocks. However with LSI being bought out by Broadcom they have removed their firmware files from their site.AM3+/AM3-based (Phenom II X6 1100T, Phenom II X4 960T, and Athlon II X4), 4x AM2+/AM2-based (FX-63, FX-67, A64x2-6200+, A64x2-4400+), 3x S939-based (FX-57, FX-55, A64 2800+), 3x S940-based (FX-51, FX-53, and Dual-Processor Opteron Dual-Core 2. The only disadvantage of the card is the IR firmware, which shall be overwritten at home by the IT version. I have over 100 misc E-IDE/PATA and old SATA Hard Drives, ranging from 20GB to 400GB (PATA) and from 80GB to 1. A couple of LSI HBA controllers worthy of a mention are the LSI 9202-16e and the not yet released LSI 9206-16e, these 2 cards come with dual controllers on one card. You are correct that the servers are several years old now and have probably been used since purchase.

LSI 9211-8i P20 Firmware - Linus Tech Tips LSI 9211-8i P20 Firmware - Linus Tech Tips

For a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. It is possible to pay some vendors to perform the conversion for you at time of purchase however due to ongoing FreeNAS development, you will occasionally need to update your HBA cards firmware version to remain in sync so its worth getting familiar with this procedure from the start. He said to use MSDOS instead of FreeDOS and to use Rufus to make it, but all the versions of Rufus I tried only have a FreeDos option, and the old "make bootable dos disk" seems to be gone, a thing of the past. The LSI 9211-8i is a relatively inexpensive low-profile controller with no cache but that can do RAID levels 0, 1 and 10 on its eight 6.Now over to read your answer and links in the other thread about ZFS and jails/record size/rocket science etc. I finally got it to work by opening the Java remote KVM / IPMI client in a Ubuntu VM with the javaws command, which is installed by the icedtea-netx package. After finding some PDFs with various bit of info on LSI’s range of host bus adapters (HBAs) I thought I would bring them here to help anyone looking at using one. EFI mode still did not work at all, thats my server's fault though, it just hung at "Initializing the UEFI". rom" (I have added the " _hey" just to avoid that you flash junk into your card as you might use these instructions e.