Hi @Fireball3,
I've just used your method to get P16 on 5 different H310s that I got my grubby little hands on, and your method worked flawlessly.
I haven't installed them yet into the target machine, but the flashing tools seem to indicate everything went smooth.
I have two questions..
There's a P17 F/W available from LSI released August 9th... Is there a reason not to upgrade to it?
You mention in you post that certain features (spin down etc.) are supported since version 5.00Beta7... what is this a version of? I'm interested in the Spindown functionality under linux specifically, so I'd like to know that I'm not miss any important piece of the puzzle