> 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 recent motherboards the DOS version of sas2flash will simply refuse to start with obscure hardware initialization errors. If you can build a FreeDOS image with little effort, it might be worth a try; just be warned that it's not a guaranteed way to success and that your time might be better spent by looking for a board with UEFI firmware that you can borrow for the ten minutes needed to flash the card. And no, I don't like UEFI either, but I do think it's a useful tool for the job at hand. HTH, Andrea
