Hello people.

I purchased a couple of these drives for use in my kludge-tastic home server.

They are intended to be connected to an IBM M5110 as controller flashed to be a "generic" Lsi 2308 IT mode card.

One came with firmware version ISO4, the other with ISO5.

After some fighting, and plugging them in to a Dell h200 that I also purchased (still in ir mode), I managed to get them both up to ISO5, but the "SAS_DRIVE_FIRMWARE_2DDG2_LN_ISO6_A.BIN" refuses to run on these drives.

The error it throws is simply "This update Package is not compatible with your system configuration".

Things I have tried:
Connecting them to the 2308 - same error
Connecting them to the h200 - same error
Creating a virtual machine with a spoofed Dell smbios posing as a Dell r730 with the h200 passed through to the vm running almalinux 9.8 - same error
Extracting the ISO6.fwh file and flashing with sg_write_buffer in a whole lot of variations - rejected
Attempting to update with various methods with the Seagate 003.lod - rejected

Some of these were suggested by googles search ai, but I did check sources.

The problem I am having is they seem to reset after a variable amount of time and get dropped from the bus.

The same ai suggested that ISO6 was made to deal with the droppages.

This is my first time dealing with enterprise HDDs,

Here are the links so that people who want to help you don't need to search for the updates like I had to:

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=vvjhp (IS04)
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=pnvwc (IS05)
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=2ddg2 (IS06)

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Dell's header:


The above header needs to be stripped off if you want to use non-Dell methods.

Alternatively, try changing 0x39 to 0x09:


This is the 05 header:

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My apologies for not posting links to the updates.

I'm not super familiar with hex editing.

The first part (removing the Dell header) looks simple enough, but my unfamiliarity has left me a little confused by the second part