{"id":1489,"date":"2014-09-08T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:37","slug":"upgrading-lsi-hba-9300-8i-via-uefi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading LSI HBA 9300-8i via UEFI (Phase 06)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a resume on how to upgrade a LSI SAS3 HBA 9300-8i<\/strong> card to the latest BIOS & Firmware using the UEFI mode. This is applicable to my homelab Supermicro X9SRH-7TF or any other motherboard with UEFI Build-In EFI Shell. I’ve found that using the UEFI mode to be more practical than the old method of a MSDOS bootable USB key. And this is the way more and more Firmware and BIOS will be released.<\/p>\n

Tom and Duncan showed \u00a0how to upgrade an LSI 9207-4i4e from within VMware vSphere 5.5 CLI<\/a>. In this article I’m going to show you how to use the UEFI Shell for the upgrade.<\/p>\n

Preparation.<\/h3>\n

First you need to head over to the LSI website for your HBA and download a few files to your computer. For the LSI HBA 9300-8i<\/a> you can jump to the Software Downloads<\/a> section. You want to download three files, extract them and put the files on a USB key.<\/p>\n

The Installer_P4_for_UEFI<\/strong> which contains the firmware updater sas3flash.efi <\/strong>that works with P06. You can retrieve it using\u00a0this dropbox link<\/a>\u00a0as it’s disappeared from the LSI download site.<\/p>\n

The SAS3_UEFI_BSD_P6<\/strong>\u00a0which contains the BIOS for the updater (X64SAS3.ROM<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

The 9300_8i_Package_P6_IR_IT_firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows<\/strong> which contains the SAS9300_8i_IT.bin<\/strong> firmware and the MPTSAS3.ROM<\/strong> bios.<\/p>\n

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\"lsi9300_8i_download\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At this point you put all those extract files mentioned above on a USB key.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"lsi9300_p06_usbdos\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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You reboot your server, and modify the Boot parameters in the BIOS of the server to boot in UEFI Built-In EFI Shell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"UEFI_Build-In_EFI_Shell\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Upgrading BIOS & Firmware.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you reboot you will be dumped in the UEFI shell. You can easely move to the USB key with your programs using<\/p>\n

\"UEFI_booting\"<\/p>\n

And lets move over to the USB key. For me the USB key is mapped as fs1<\/strong>: but you could also have a fs0:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A quick dir<\/strong> command will list the files on the USB key.<\/p>\n

\"uefi_dir\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using the\u00a0sas3flash.efi<\/strong>\u00a0-list<\/strong> command (extracted from the\u00a0Installer_P4_for_UEFI file) we can list the local LSI MPT3SAS HBA adapter, see the SAS address and see the various versions of the Firmware & BIOS and UEFI BSD Bios.<\/p>\n

\"sas3flash_list\"<\/p>\n

There are three components that we want to patch, the Firmware, the BIOS and the UEFI BSD Code.<\/p>\n

Here we start by upgrading the UEFI BSD BIOS. Using the sas3flash.efi we can fine tune with the SAS address of the controller, and select the X64SAS3.ROM<\/strong> file found in the\u00a0SAS3_UEFI_BSD_P6\u00a0download. As you see, the –c<\/strong> Controller command allows you to specify to which adapter the BIOS is loaded. You can enter the number 0 or the SAS Address. sas3flash.efi -c 006F94D30 -b X64SAS3.ROM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sas3flash_bios\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The next step is upgrade the Firmware with the SA<\/strong>S9300_8i_IT.bin<\/strong> found in the\u00a09300_8i_Package_P6_IR_IT_firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows\u00a0file. sas3flash.efi -c 006F94D30 -f SAS9300_8i_IT.bin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sas3flash_firmware\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last part is to upgrade the MPTSAS3.ROM<\/strong> file which contains the BIOS of the LSI adapter. Here again we use sas3flash.efi -c 006F94D30 -b MPTSAS3.ROM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The end result once Phase 06 firmware and bioses have been install is the following sas3flash.efi -list<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"lsi9300_8i_phase06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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