First, greetings to all forum-members from passer-by!
I just obtained IBM M5015 controller and was scared by terribly long boot-time, so I started looking for some info and found this forum by chance. I have a few questions, but please be patient with me, because I'm complete noob concerning cross-flashing, never done this, and never heard about it untill now...
I would like to flash the latest LSI-firmware (4.10 p2, 12.13.0-0154), but I have read somewhere on this forum some versions can not be flashed on M5015, they simply do not work (oem-controller is detected, or something like that). So my question is:
Q1: which is the last LSI-firmware version working with M5015?
Q2: what the hell is "SBR" (or is it SRB)? I have read it must be wiped out and new loaded. Where can I find the new/latest one?
Q3: That "megarec" tool used for cross-flashing, is it a part of standard LSI-tools (MegaCLI or StorCLI)? If not, where can I find/download it?
Q4 (which should be probably Q1), please be honest with me and tell me: is there some serious danger I could do something wrong and render the raid-controller completely irreversibely unusable? Did this ever happen to someone?
I just obtained IBM M5015 controller and was scared by terribly long boot-time, so I started looking for some info and found this forum by chance. I have a few questions, but please be patient with me, because I'm complete noob concerning cross-flashing, never done this, and never heard about it untill now...
I would like to flash the latest LSI-firmware (4.10 p2, 12.13.0-0154), but I have read somewhere on this forum some versions can not be flashed on M5015, they simply do not work (oem-controller is detected, or something like that). So my question is:
Q1: which is the last LSI-firmware version working with M5015?
Q2: what the hell is "SBR" (or is it SRB)? I have read it must be wiped out and new loaded. Where can I find the new/latest one?
Q3: That "megarec" tool used for cross-flashing, is it a part of standard LSI-tools (MegaCLI or StorCLI)? If not, where can I find/download it?
Q4 (which should be probably Q1), please be honest with me and tell me: is there some serious danger I could do something wrong and render the raid-controller completely irreversibely unusable? Did this ever happen to someone?