Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:26:12 -0700 From: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <me+freebsd@mathieu.digital> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: storcli: howto crossflash Fujitsu PRAID400i to LSI3008 HBA? Message-ID: <bf5ce689b1803dd10f7e2d313aaba211@bsdforge.com> In-Reply-To: <YNNQCoEw1VIR%2BEha@weirdfishes> References: <20210623130455.60efd02f@freyja> <YNNQCoEw1VIR%2BEha@weirdfishes>
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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
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