Comments on: Cannot flash LSI 9211-8i firmware on Asus P9X79Pro

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:17:32 +0000

In reply to triwyn. Very glad that sharing my experience helped someone else ;)

By: triwyn

triwyn — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:52:49 +0000

Sir you are a DAMN Legend. I have been trying to flash this for 2 days. Read your post. Literally dug a mobo out of the bin and slapped a core2duo in there.

UGH man you’re awesome.

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:58:42 +0000

In reply to eeze. Thx a lot for sharing! I didn’t notice that myself but indeed, flashing on my P9X79 with only PCIe 3.0 x16 was not possible although it worked on my Striker II Formula which has only PCIe 2.0 x16.

By: eeze

eeze — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:15:20 +0000

I had many issues flashing the 9211-8i card. Used a bunch of websites.
Final solution was to move to a PCI 2.0 slot and the sas2flash utility started working.

For Flashing the LSI 9211-8i from IT to IR firmware.
Tried a Rufus built FreeDos with the SAS2flash apps (3 of them).
Tried a MSDOS boot disk – No adapters present
Tried the Ultimate Boot CD – UEFI Loader – No Adapters present
Moved card to another PC, tried in Windows – Error about not being able to erase memory, even as Admin.
Back to fist PC, created another UEFI disk – Received error – ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program

Happened to read on TweakTown link below

Had this weird feeling to change the card to another port. I was originally in the PCIe 3.0 x16 port, changed to a PCIe 2.0 x8 port and voila! The card showed up at POST, loaded up the shell and ran the sas2flash.efi and was able to flash the card from IR to IT mode.

Usefull Links
http://blog.monsted.dk/?q=node/5
http://www.rootedconsulting.com/2013/05/20/lsi-it-and-ir-firmware-update/
http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/52097-z77-extreme4-how-boot-efi-shell.html

By: lostar

lostar — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:02:10 +0000

Thx for detailed explanation and update! You made my day!