Just so that it is here and in one place, and to save background reading for anyone with the M1015, wanting to flash the BIOS, here is the information taken from the great and informative servethehome.com site from the set of pages starting here:
http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-m1015-part-1-started-lsi-92208i/1. Make a bootable USB stick, needs to be DOS bootable for the flasher etc to work, there are number ways to do it, ask Google
2. Download the archive file that is needed from here:
http://www.files.laptopvideo2go.com/hdd/sas2008.zip3. Extract the files somewhere, then place onto the USB stick
4. Turn machine off grab the SAS address of the card, it’s on the back on a green sticker (ie 500605B0xxxxxxxx)
5. Turn machine on (with card back in) choose USB stick at boot option, for all the below it is assumed you are booted to USB stick in the directory with the files from download.
To Convert LSI9240(IBM M1015) to a LSI9211-IT mode (i.e. the ideal 'dumb controller' mode for FlexRAID):
Type in the following exactly:
6. megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin
7. megarec -cleanflash 0
8. <reboot, back to USB stick >
9a.sas2flsh -o -f 2118it.bin <Use this 9a if the Option ROM (BIOS) is NOT required (this is my personal recommendation for simplicity)>
<OR>
9b.sas2flsh -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom <Use this 9b if the Option ROM (BIOS) is required (9a without option ROM is my recommendation for simplicity)>
10.sas2flsh -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx (x= numbers for SAS address)
<reboot>
Done!