On 9/6/2014 4:02 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > That doesn't mean that you have to flash firmware onto LSI controller > every so often after you placed controller into production because > original version of firmware is crap, and updated version will turn out to > be crap several Months after its release, and so on. You did have nice > thing before you flashed, which alas was different hardware from what you > needed. You flashed different version to modify hardware. And after that > the hardware was exactly what you needed it to be. And from this point on > you don't need to flash it, unless you decide to change its functions to > what they were with original firmware. for some unfathomable reason, IT (initiator-terminator) internal SAS cards are nearly unobtanium. The external ones cost stupid money, at least as expensive as high end SAS raid cards, and I really don't understand it. ok, I do understand it... MS Windows prefers using hardware raid since the built in storage management is dreadful. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast