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madburg, Thanks for your excellent info on how to flash these HBAs, a really useful guide. OK, so I have successfully flashed the M1015 from an old ASUS A8N motherboard with usb-boot to the P10 version of the LSI firmware (no BIOS). Now I just need to install it into my Asrock Pro 4 M (Ivy i5-3550) running ESXi 5.1 and get the M1015 setup in passthru. Is there any benefit to updating the firmware to a later version ? What update method, software, and which of my 2 motherboards should I use ?

madburg, I'm trying to figure out if your "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P10).zip - 6.38 MB (DOS, via bootable usb key)" is an appropriate flash software to reflash my current M1015 to IT mode ? Just bought an IBM M1015 (Megaraid SAS9240-8i), and ran the ".1.bat" (MegaCli.exe) files (from the P10 above on a floppy diskette) to query my new card for the following details: Versions ================ Product Name : ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller Serial No : FW Package Build: 20.10.1-0107 Mfg. Data ================ Mfg. Date : 05/04/12 Rework Date : 00/00/00 Revision No : 02F Battery FRU : N/A Image Versions in Flash: ================ BIOS Version : 4.30.00_4.12.05.00_0x05160000 Preboot CLI Version: 03.02-020:#%00009 WebBIOS Version : 4.0-57-e_46-Rel NVDATA Version : 3.09.03-0037 FW Version : 2.130.354-1664 Boot Block Version : 2.02.00.00-0001 Noticed the P11 version is rar file and not a zip file and I think LSI is up to version 14 or 15. So I'm just not sure what is the right flash version to use.