Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
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...