By suggestions I read here, I purchased a LSI 9240-8i SAS/SATA controller, which to my understanding is essentially the same as the IBM M1015. I have not yet installed the controller card but I've seen mentioned that the firmware ought to be changed to "LSI9211-IT" mode. I've searched for how to flash the firmware on the card but one problem I've found is from all the sources I've seen to download the flashing software, they all refer to the same location to download, on the LaptopVideo2Go forum to download a file called SAS2008.zip. The problem I have with following directions is I can not download that file... my computer starts, then times out. As I don't really know exactly what I'm doing, other than following instructions written by someone else, I was hoping to get a little more guidance from someone here, since this will be for my FreeNAS. Is it important to flash my firmware and if so, is there an alternate source other than where I have listed?