IBM ServeRAID 8k and 8k-l BIOS and Firmware Update
Adapters Supported: IBM ServeRAID 8k SAS Controller (25R8064)
IBM ServeRAID 8k-l SAS Controller (n/a)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #NA
Version: 5.2.0-17003 - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Added support to intialize the hot inserted drive on which copyback is waiting
to happen.
- Added support in BIOS to Enable the CopyBack funtionality by default When
resetting the controller attributes to Factory Settings.(Pressing F6 in the
Serial Select Utility).
Fixes:
- Array member of RAID-1E/RAID-50 in OKay-Revived state goes missing when rescan
is performed on the controller.
- Array member of RAID-6 in critical-Revived state goes missing when rescan is
performed on the controller.
IBM ServeRAID 8k and 8k-l BIOS and Firmware Update
Adapters Supported: IBM ServeRAID 8k SAS Controller (25R8064)
IBM ServeRAID 8k-l SAS Controller (n/a)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #NA
Version: 5.2.0-17003 - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Added support to intialize the hot inserted drive on which copyback is waiting
to happen.
- Added support in BIOS to Enable the CopyBack funtionality by default When
resetting the controller attributes to Factory Settings.(Pressing F6 in the
Serial Select Utility).
Fixes:
- Array member of RAID-1E/RAID-50 in OKay-Revived state goes missing when rescan
is performed on the controller.
- Array member of RAID-6 in critical-Revived state goes missing when rescan is
performed on the controller.
Version: 5.2.0-17002 - Suggested
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Enhancements: None
Problem(s) Fixed:
- POST displays different event notification in same line.
- Clear Task progress for individual legs of a RAID 10 clear operation not
displayed.
- Amber LED not glowing on the copy back drive marked as defunct.
- Kernel Panic occurs when a drive belonging to RAID-50 is removed.
- Kernel Panic occurs when hotpsare drive is removed during copyback.
- Rebuild occurs to wrong leg and array members are swapped in RAID-50 in case of
two drive failure.
- Pending clear tasks are not triggered automatically even after completion of
all current tasks.
- Rebuild not getting started when Auto Failover is enabled after a reboot
- Unable to create arrays over drives participated in failed migration operation
in SRM and arcconf.
- Blink LED observed during NVLogUpdate.
- File system goes to Read-only mode.
- Sensor 75 error on IBM 3650 servers.
Version: 5.2.0-17001 - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Added support for defunct state of drives to remain persistent across reboot.
- RAID1 rebuild behavior when Auto Failover is disabled.
- Added support for background tasks to execute in parallel.
Problem(s) Fixed:
- LSI controller fails to boot in presence of Adaptec controller.
- Firmware crashes when we delete a flash copy child.
- Array gets rebuild with different drive types (SAS & SATA).
- RAID Volume is displayed as okay state in BIOS while rebuilding is in progress.
- RAID-6 is rebuilding even after the target drive is initialized.
- The RAID-10 is getting created with incorrect cache setting.
- Rebuilding is triggered automatically in newly created OKAY RAID10 array.
- While copy back is in progress, target drive is allowed to be assigned as a
hotspare.
- PHY values are displayed in place of slot number for RAID 1E array.
- Copy back fails on the second hotspare drive in RAID-6.
- Migration is displayed as critical migrating even though the array has all
the members.
- Allowed to assign a physical drive as hotspare even though it contains an
array.
- Unable to assign a hotspare when a RAID-5 array is in critical state.
- Unable to assign SAS drive as a global hotspare when arrays created with SATA
drives exist or vice versa.
- Rebuilding is not triggered while secure erase is in progress on any
physical drive.
Version: 5.2.0-16002 - Suggested
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Controllers Affected: ServeRAID 8i, 8k, 8k-l, 8s
Enhancements: None
Problem(s) Fixed:
- Fixed the firmware crash during RAID-0 migration to RAID-5.
- Fixed the firmware crash when both the RAID-5 and RAID-6 are made offline
while RAID-6 rebuild is in progress.
- Fixed issue in flashcopy.
Version: 5.2.0-16001 - Suggested
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Controllers Affected: ServeRAID 8i, 8k, 8k-l, 8s
Enhancements: None
Problem(s) Fixed:
- Provided support for 2TB physical drive.
Version: 5.2-0 (16000) - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Added support for array offline forced online feature
Problem(s) Fixed: None
Version 5.2-0 (15432) - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Decreased ServeRAID boot time from 96 to 36 sec for SAS devices (See RETAIN
Tip H183693)
Problems Fixed:
- Fixed an issue when a RAID-10 array becomes unreadable after a dynamic disk
conversion in Windows 2003/2008
- Resolved an issue that would not allow an 8s controller as a bootable
device when an 8k is present
- Fixed an issue when the hotspare will not protect all logical volumes (See
Retain Tip H195598)
- Fixed an issue while drive rebuilding exiting the controller BIOS will hang
Version 5.2-0 (15429) - Suggested
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Enhancements:
- Changed the link speed to 1.5Gbps for SATA disk drives
Problems Fixed:
- Fixed a problem with missing slot information from hard drives (Refer to
RETAIN Tip H195169)
- Fixed a problem with SATA disk drives prematurely failing under stress (See
RETAIN Tip H195165)
- Removed waiting period while exiting the Ctrl-A utility with a rebuild
underway
Version 5.2-0 (15427)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed issue that caused a PCI initialization error when a REBUILD is active
during POST which prevented the OS to not operate properly
- Fixed issue that generated a PCI address calculation error that caused
mirror arrays to go off-line after a ServeRAID firmware flash followed by a
system reboot. (See Retain Tip H194522)
Version 5.2-0 (15425)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed issue when SATA disk drive FRU information was missing via ServeRAID
Manager
- Fixed issue to allow limited background operation tasks to now run one at a
time to improve I/O
- Fixed issue when one or more logical drives go to an "offline" or "unknown"
state after a firmware update has been applied (See RETAIN Tip H194522)
- Fixed issue while creating multiple logical drives some arrays go offline
immediately when hitting the Apply option
- Fixed issue when a new drive is inserted into an array, the copy back
operation would not start properly.
- Fixed an abnormal condition that caused the firmware to crash with a Blink
Led 62 failure.
Version 5.2-0 (15424)
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Problems Fixed:
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed a issue when replacing an onboard ServeRAID controller
planar and importing the configuration, the OS would not boot up properly
(See RETAIN Tip H194257)
- (8i) Fixed an issue that presented journal commit I/O error hangs while
running VMware and/or unexpected system hangs while running Windows that
could cause disk drives to go offline prematurely (See RETAIN Tip H194255)
Version 5.2-0 (15421)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed several performance related issues
- Fixed a minor drive communication issue for the initiator dealing with
credit blocks
- Fixed an issue that caused RAID-6 array to not rebuild when two disk were
defunct
Version 5.2-0 (15418)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed a write verification failure that could cause data corruption (See
RETAIN Tip H193156)
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed an issue when multiple reboots would lead to a Blink Led
0x61 issue
- Fixed a problem that caused arrays with SATA drives to initialize in a
critical state with one drive rebuilding after power on (See RETAIN Tip
H193696)
Version 5.2-0 (15417)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed a rare issue where the firmware flash will be corrupt leading to a
TBBU or Blink Led 86 failure (See RETAIN Tip H193476)
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed an issue that caused a boot failure when no USB devices
are attached to the system causing a Blink Led 0x0A
- (8k, 8k-l) Fix issues with mixing 1.5Gbps and 3.0Gbps devices/speeds (See
RETAIN Tip H19856)
Version 5.2-0 (15416)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed a memory resource allocation issue
- Fixed a problem that caused SATA disk hangs during heavy I/O
Version 5.2-0 (15414)
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Problems Fixed:
- Improved UART logging to suppress repeating "blank serial number" messages
- (8k, 8k-l) Corrected a data scrub issue that affects systems with
non-expander backplanes (See RETAIN Tip H192453)
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed an ECC memory handling issue that caused false Blink Led
0x57 events (See RETAIN Tip H192334)
- (8k, 8k-l) Corrected a failed battery issue sometimes seen on new 8k
controllers or 8k controllers with a new battery installed (See RETAIN Tip
H191923)
Version 5.2-0 (15412)
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- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed a problem that incorrectly allowed all drives to spin up
at the same time after a system restart (x3400 servers)
Version 5.2-0 (15411)
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Enhancements:
- Added Microsoft Windows PE for Intel x86 and EM64T
Problems Fixed:
- (8i) Fixed a problem with unexpected system resets (See RETAIN Tip H192037)
- Fixed a problem with critical arrays failing to rebuild after replacing the
failed drive (See RETAIN Tip H192117)
- Fixed a battery error issue when exiting the controller BIOS or restarting
the system OS (See RETAIN Tips H191923, H191924)
- Fixed a problem when read operations were interfering with write operations
during POST (Blink Led A7)
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed a key authentication issue that prevented the firmware
flash from working properly
Version 5.2-0 (15407)
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Enhancements:
- Revised to add features for 9.00
- Improved the user configurable write-cache mode settings for SAS and SATA
drives within the ACU (CTRL-A) utility and the ARCCONF command line tool.
There are now four options available to users:
* SATA=ON, SAS=OFF (default setting)
* SATA=ON, SAS=ON
* SATA=OFF, SAS=ON
* SATA=OFF, SAS=OFF
Note: Any new hard drive inserted into the subsystem will be made to
conform to the user configured option. This setting can be modified within
the ACU or within ServeRAID Manager.
- User background task priority adjustments now survive system resets
Problems Fixed:
- Fixed an issue that incorrectly changed the default hard drive write-cache
policy from write-through (disabled) to write-back (enabled) when using F6
in the ACU (CTRL-A) to load default settings (See RETAIN Tip H19671)
- Fixed an issue that would not allow the user to change the write-cache
policy of a hard drive from write-back (enabled) to write-through
(disabled) within the ACU (CTRL-A) (See RETAIN Tip H19671)
- Fixed an issue that caused a drives write-cache policy to change from
write-through (disabled) to write-back (enabled) after the drive fails and
is then replaced (See RETAIN Tip H19671)
- A change was made to allow SATA hard drives to operate at 1.5 or 3.0 Gbps
speeds through backplanes designed with an expander (See RETAIN Tip H19856)
Version 5.2-0 (11859)
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Problems Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where newly inserted SATA drives would not start rebuilding
in RAID 6 arrays.
Version 5.2-0 (11844)
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Enhancements:
- Added ability to flash multiple controllers in the same system.
Version 5.2-0 (11835)
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Enhancements:
- Added support for ServeRAID 8s controllers
Problems Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where rebuilds would not start after creating a new
dedicated hot spare assigned to a critical array
- Corrected a condition leading to a controller Kernel Panic - Blink Led 0xC7
error on an OS shutdown when an array is critical
- Fixed issue where ACU (Adaptec Configuration Utility) displays only 16 hard
drives
- Fixed issue where firmware strings are not fully displayed
- Fixed issue where BIOS misreports hard drives during POST
Version 5.1-0 (9257)
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Problems Fixed:
- Corrected hard drive state transition behavior when Automatic Failover is
disabled in the Adaptec Configuration Utility (ACU). The default setting
for Automatic Failover is enabled
- (8k, 8k-l) Removed the fix implemented in Build 9254 to display a fatal
error when an 8k or 8k-l is not installed. This fix caused the side effect
of a rare random hang condition during the ServeRAID POST banner display
while the system is starting
- Fixed issue where the system would hang on a cold reboot requiring power to
be removed for 5-10 minutes for the system to recover.
Version 5.1-0 (9254)
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Enhancements:
- Improved medium error handling and added a more robust data validation
check.
Problems Fixed:
- Fixed issue where Linux operating systems could hang when the system has
over 4GB of memory.
- (8k, 8k-l) Fixed issue where if 8k or 8k-l is not installed or properly
installed, the CPU LED on the light path diagnostics will light and the
system will not POST. With the fix the DASD LED will light up on the light
path diagnostics panel, system will boot, and the ServeRAID controller will
notify the user of a fatal error
Version 5.1-0 (9249)
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Problems Fixed:
- Addresses compatibility issue with 80GB SATA II drive (39M4518).
- (8i) Addresses compatibility issue when the U320 SCSI Controller is in the
same PCI bus as the ServeRAID 8i.
- Fixes issue where a "Memory Retention Failure unflushed cache lost" message
is displayed during adapter POST after an unclean shutdown.
Version 5.1-0 (9247)
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Problems Fixed:
- Addressed issue where the firmware on SATA II drives could not be flashed
- Fix an issue affecting several IBM servers where the SAS controller
diagnostic program could fail to run
- Corrected an issue that caused the ServeRAID controller to take longer than
it should to complete its POST process
Version 5.1-0 (9234)
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- Initial release for ServeRAID 8k and 8k-l controllers.
