Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? >> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new >> directory, then close and burn the image. > I have not figured out

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Jesus christ it is 2018 and they still want us to use dos to flash > hardware >:'[ While DOS is usually the recommended environment for flashing hardware, in my experience the most reliable option for (cross)flashing LSI SAS2 controllers is the EFI version of sas2flash. Specifically, on some

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? >> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new >> directory, then close and burn the image. > I have not figured out

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? > Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new > directory, then close and burn the image. I have not figured out where to place them on the iso so that they are

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/20/2018 02:02 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/19/2018 08:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: >> A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real >> hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you >> really shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-20 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
Surprising that you can do that on a VM, clearly they don't provide much security if you can do such powerful things as flashing firmware, pretty easy to write a VM virus that flashes all the flash memory to random, 1, or 0 values that would totally brick a server and add in cards as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-20 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 03/19/2018 08:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you really shouldn't be able to). Actually you can update firmware from a VM, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-19 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/19/2018 07:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > > A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from > the real hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware > from a VM (you really shouldn't be able to). > > The reason they still want us to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-19 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you really shouldn't be able to). The reason they still want us to upgrade with dos is it's a lowest common denominator, i.e. every one has it or

[gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-19 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I am told to create a DOS usb flash drive with windows but I am un-able to do that. I have tried getting the required files in to a VM FreeDOS installation but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that, there is no actual way to load the cdrom drivers. Jesus christ it is 2018 and they