Guess I finally realized there was an update (or three) and decided to try it. 6.9.2 to 6.12.10. But afterwards, the two drives I have attached to a Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 controller were not included in the array. (All others were.) I could mount them, and I tried to add them back but they were then listed as 'wrong'. I was able to look at files on the drives when mounted. I ran drive checks and didn't see any errors. I was able to revert back to 6.9.2 and I was able to add the drives back into the array. So I guess I'm good with 6.9.2, but the revert process asked me to send a bug report. I think I generated the diagnostics log, but i don't know how to access it and attach to this thread.. (sorry, already wasted hours on this so don't have the bandwidth to try to figure that out)..