Flare is normally loaded on the first three drives. If the drives have been moved around at all, you might get lucky and find that flare is on one of the other drives in slots 3 thru 9. You can try cycling the drives, three at a time thru the first 3 slots. If there is code on any of the drives in slots 0 thru 2, the sp will load. If you can't get a load that way, then, you will definitely need that seed drive.