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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> wrote:
> Do you recommend more recent firmware versions, though? I was playing with this for a while and it really
> was tiresome to be loading different firmware versions.

100% agree on how tiresome it is! I was going from messages on this
list, especially from Steven Hartland, who seems to know what he is
talking about:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-July/017728.html

and

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-May/017284.html

"""
The conclusion is LSI 2008 HBA with FW below P13 will eat the data on your SATA
disks if you use WS16 due to the following bug
"""

Cheers

Tom