LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

Moderator note: madburg started this way back in May of 2011, and deserves an enormous amount of credit and appreciation, from many users (both unRAID users and others from around the web). Fireball3 has picked it up and is maintaining it now, and also deserves much credit and appreciation. But it has now grown to over 74 pages, and as the flash files and tools and instructions have been upgraded over time, it has become hard to find the latest info for particular situations and hardware. So

Hi guys I have an LSI MegaRAID card: LSI00137, I think it's a MegaRAID SAS 84016E. I tried to follow "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11)", it dumps the card info just fine but when doing the next step it says it can't find any controllers. Any ideas? Or, if you know of a way to use disks with this controller without having the controller write anything on the HDD (passthrough like HBA)? edit: Adapter #0 ======================================================================