@mattlach
It might be convenient that they flashed it to IT mode, but you're going to be reflashing the card yourself every time you upgrade FreeNAS to a new point release. So you really only saved yourself from not learning how to reflash it right now. You also may or may not even have the right firmware installed since FreeNAS uses P16 and unless you told them you wanted P16 it's unlikely that's what they flashed on the card.
Odd. They work just fine. Maybe I lucked out?
I just added the second one, but I've had the first one unchanged since my initial FreeNAS install which I installed in September of 2012. 8.2.0-p1 I believe.
I've never had to re-flash them for them to continuing to work well.
Getting them pre-flashed was a precaution because I was on consumer hardware, and I understand they don't always flash well (or at all) on consumer hardware. Now that I have a supermicro server board, I'm hoping that is no longer a concern, and if I need to reflash them I can.
Can you link me to some source information regarding the need of specific firmware for specific point releases so I can read up on it? This is the first I have heard of it, and I have been talking about these controllers on various forums ever since I got mine in september of 2012...