Hello all, I got myself a SAS3041E-HP card off Ebay because it was cheap. I knew that I had to flash the card to IT firmware and that it does not support drives larger than 2.2TB (well it does but not able to use all space). I couldn`t flash the card with the files from LSI (avagotech) website using freedos. Kept getting the pal error on 3 motherboards even an old one. Had to use an old MSI board but using an old win98 dos disk via usb, freedos would not work.
So I have a working SAS3041E-HP card with the SAS1064ET (b1) chipset working. I`m going to do a parity check to see if my speeds improve over the SiI 3114 card, they should do.