I have an M1015 that I managed to clear the firmware and bios from, using megarec. But on my X9SCM-F-O, I'm unable to flash using sas2flash, both DOS and EFI versions. The LEDs on the M1015 don't light up, and megarec doesn't see the card anymore. I've tried the card in a few other systems...
I just purchased a storage server with two 3ware 9500S-8 cards. I planned for JBOD configuration. Then found out this from the 3ware 9000 series manual:
"JBOD. A JBOD is an unconfigured disk attached to your 3ware
RAID controller. JBOD configuration is no longer supported in
the 3ware...