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title = 'Updating LSI HBA on TrueNAS Scale'
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description = 'Navigating Broadcom and LSI HBA updates on TrueNAS Scale'
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date = 2025-05-29T07:11:45-05:00
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draft = false
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categories = ['references']
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tags = ['LSI', 'TrueNAS Scale', 'Broadcom', 'Update', 'SAS3Flash', 'HBA']
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Navigating Broadcom and LSI HBA updates on TrueNAS Scale.
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{{< lead >}}
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Navigating Broadcom and LSI HBA updates on TrueNAS Scale.
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{{< /lead >}}
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All of the references I was able to find for updating LSI firmware was outdated, and since this took me longer than I would like, I thought I would share my experience as a guide to others.
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# Find your hardware information:
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```bash
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lspci -vvv | grep -A 20 -B 5 "LSI\|Broadcom"
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```
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```
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65:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3224 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 01)
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Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS9305-16i
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Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
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Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
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Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
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Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 73
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NUMA node: 0
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IOMMU group: 4
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Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
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Region 1: Memory at e0e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
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Expansion ROM at e0d00000 [disabled] [size=1M]
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Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
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Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
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Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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Capabilities: [68] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
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DevCap: MaxPayload 4096 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
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ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0W
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DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr+ UnsupReq-
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RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ FLReset-
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MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
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DevSta: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
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LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x8, ASPM not supported
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```
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If we look under Subsystem, we can see the model number of the HBA, in my case: `LSI SAS9305-16i`. If you have multiple HBAs, they should all be listed in similar entries.
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Now we can find out what firmware version we are currently running by using the `sas3flash` command.
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```bash
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sas3flash -listall
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```
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Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
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Version 16.00.00.00 (2017.05.02)
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Copyright 2008-2017 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.
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Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3224(A1)
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Num Ctlr FW Ver NVDATA x86-BIOS PCI Addr
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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0 SAS3224(A1) 16.00.01.00 10.00.00.05 08.27.00.00 00:17:00:00
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1 SAS3224(A1) 16.00.01.00 10.00.00.05 08.27.00.00 00:65:00:00
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Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
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Exiting SAS3Flash.
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```
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# Download the firmware:
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Navigate to the [Broadcom website](https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=&pf=Host+Bus+Adapters&pn=&pa=Firmware&po=&dk=&pl=&l=false) and search for your HBA model number. Broadcom does not make it easy to get direct links to the downloads, so hit F12 in your browser, and go to the `Network` tab. When you click on the download link you will see a GET request, copy the URL. In my case, the URL is: https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/host-bus-adapters/host-bus-adapters-common-files/sas_sata_12g_p16.12_cutlass_point_release/9305_16i_Pkg_P16.12_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip
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Now in our TrueNAS Scale shell, we can download the firmware using wget.
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```bash
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wget https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/host-bus-adapters/host-bus-adapters-common-files/sas_sata_12g_p16.12_cutlass_point_release/9305_16i_Pkg_P16.12_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip
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unzip 9305_16i_Pkg_P16.12_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip
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cd 9305_16i_Pkg_P16.12_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows
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cd Firmware
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cd SAS9305_16i_IT_P
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```
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# Backup the current firmware:
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For each HBA, we should backup our current firmware in case something goes wrong.
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```bash
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sas3flash -c 0 -ufirmware backup_card0_fw.bin
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sas3flash -c 1 -ufirmware backup_card1_fw.bin
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```
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# Update the firmware:
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{{< alert >}}
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**Warning!** I was able to update my firmware on a live system with no restart or issues, but this may not be the case for you. It is a good idea to make sure that your arrays are not in use, and that you have good backups before proceeding.
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{{< /alert >}}
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Lets flash the firmware!
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```bash
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sas3flash -c 0 -f SAS9305_16i_IT_P.bin
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sas3flash -c 1 -f SAS9305_16i_IT_P.bin
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```
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# Clean up
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We are all done!
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Once you have verified that things are working the way you want them to, you can remove the firmware download and the backup files.
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