Disclaimer: All liability is excluded. Be careful, you can brick your card.
1st step: delete the original firmware (Lenovo, IBM, …)
- download megarec.exe and sbrempty.bin
- copy both files on an DOS-bootable USB-stick and boot from it
- delete the oem firmware: megarec.exe -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin and megarec.exe -cleanflash 0 (“0” is the # of the card)
2nd step: flash the LSI-Firmware
- download the newest flashtool (sas2flash.efi) and the newest firmware (2108it.bin) from: LSI-Homepage –> SAS 9210-8i Host Bus Adapter –> Downloads –> Firmware –> 9210_8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip
- copy both files onto FAT32-formatted USB-stick and reboot
- enter BIOS and boot into motherboard’s built-in EFI-shell
- change directory to USB-stick: fs0: (number can be different)
- check for cards found: sasflash.efi -listall
- flash the firmware: sas2flash.efi -o -f 2108it.bin
- program the original SAS-address: sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd # (look for # on an sticker onto the card; enter only the numbers and no whitespaces or -)
- check, if everything went well: sas2flash.efi -listall (IT-mode, SAS-address)
- reboot and power system down
- now the card works in IT-mode