got it -- much appreciated. another question ...
my setup: asrock z390 phantom ITX board. i've 8 drives -- 4 onboard SATA, 4 on a 9207-8i card.
via arpl-1.0-beta10a, with all modules selected, my LAN (i219, i believe) and my LSI card is recognized.
everything works.
via arpl-1.0-beta11a, all modules selected, my LAN works but the LSI card isn't recognized.
reboot again using the beta10a flash drive, everything working as before.
not sure whether i should've done anything different for the beta11a to work. i'm fine with beta10a.
thanks again.
dh