=============================================================================== Emulex 16GB FC Firmware Package ===============================================================================
Firmware Version: 10.4.303.3 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - VF speed is showing wrongly in ethtool and Ocm. - Firmware download using ethtool -f command is failing with opcode 172-1 failed:status 100-208 - Can not set the DelayDeviceDiscovery to Max (255) by ASU tool - Ports intermittently logging in to Brocade switch as G-Port
Incremental Interoperability: - xHMC event notifications on specific platforms (requires minimum IMM version-please consult Lenovo on the co-requisite) - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Problems Fixed: - Blue screen after firmware flash to with virtualized WWPN
Incremental Interoperability: - xHMC event notifications on specific platforms (requires minimum IMM version-please consult Lenovo on the co-requisite) - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Incremental Interoperability: - Grantley based ITE
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 10.2.377.18 Supported On: System x
Problems Fixed: - Link does not recover during IO + Port Cycling with FW 1.1.43.3 - BIOS versions return multiple values - LPe16k point to point (direct attached) connection not bootable in legacy BIOS - LPe16k point to point (direct attached) connection performance issues in legacy BIOS
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 10.2.261.36 Supported On: IBM System x and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Server will halt on black screen during rolling reboot of Windows 2012 x64 uEFI SANboot - Server intermittently fails to boot during rolling SANboot (any OS) - Fixed a boot hang associated with server BIOS change - Reported firwmare version in CMM is intermittently incorrect - Unable to set pause Flow control when connected to DCBX switch with PFC off - during cable pull testing a 40 second delay in link up experienced with Brocade switch ports - I/O completion and abort completion WQE are generated out of order - Unexpected WCQE in RQ CQ seen in RXRI mode while performing cable pulls
Incremental Interoperability: - Inventory support for the Flex xHMC (Chassis Hardware Management Console) - Crosslink & Express Lane on LPe16k based solutions
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 1.1.43.21 Supported On: IBM System x
Incremental Interoperability: - None
Problems Fixed: - Server will halt on black screen during UEFI rolling reboot reboot cycle test with 16Gb HBA under Windows 2012 x64 - Allows installing and booting from an MSA2040 array configured in PT-PT direct mode at 16G speed. We're now able to enable Autoscan and install/boot from multiple OSes - Added support to bypass configuring pnp Boot Table in a multipath situation. Fixes Microsoft Windows Server 2008 bug. - Fixed the "Read Rev Failure" issue during POST to accept "0" address value as a valid. - Fixed the wrong VPD HBA model number display on the banner and properties, and change the proper VPD data field size. - Fixed the timeout issue on Flogi when try to select a HBA device without connecting to a target or FC switch. - System will halt during reboot cycle test under Windows 2012 x64 UEFI - Fixing PCI Function Number decoding issue in BOFM code - Boot fails during SLES11 SP3 rolling reboot - Enable BFS and update the NVRAM if BOFM target is available - Add Diagnostic support for UEFI 16Gb FC - Reconnect menu item causes a System BIOS exit request only on AMI core system BIOS - Adding port's protocol name and WWPN in browser help menu
Firmware Version: 1.1.43.12 Supported On: IBM System x and Flex
Incremental Interoperability: - IBM Flex System FC5052 2-port 16Gb FC Adapter - IBM Flex System FC5054 4-port 16Gb FC Adapter - FC support for support for ASU/Config Patterns for Flex and ASU for IBM System x & BladeCenter - Direct PT - PT connections - Extended SCSI Pass Thru Protocol - IBM Tape unit interoperability - see SSIC for more information - SLES 11.3 on IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Windows 2012 OS will not resume from Sleep mode - Boot Device entries can be lost after exiting from BIOS setup
Firmware Version: 1.1.21.9 Supported On: IBM System x
Incremental Interoperability: - IBM Server machine types. Refer to IBM ServerProven for specifics
Problems Fixed: - Fixed FCP_CONF handling bug - No SRR sent after drop write data frame, I/O fails - Adapter does not invoke recovery after dropped read data frame - I/O throughput performance improvements - Link failover when connected to FC Tape - Cosmetic: Cleaned up miscellaneous error handling messages in debug log files - If a new device comes online and attempts to acquire an AL_PA after the link has already come up, the FC link appears to hang until the cable is pulled - Cleaned up link negotiation at 4GB/8GB/16GB speeds with specific switches
- Fixed SMP passthrough command failure due to smp back off interrupt. Appears in system log as 0x311c0030. (SCGCQ00889925) - Fixed issue where host boot fails in the presence of blank flash/corrupt firmware in flash (SCGCQ00894439) - Fixed issue where SATA drive errors, bad performance, or boot failure may appear after update to 20.00.02.00 firmware (SCGCQ00859226)(Retain Tip# H015210)
Version 1.20.01 - Moderate Impact/Low Probablility of Occurrence ------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 7.39.00.00 20.00.03.00 7.27.04.00
- Fixed an issue seen with RAID 10 array where during a warm OS boot, certain drive models with a long spin up delay may get marked as failed for being unresponsive. This delay ultimately triggers a rebuild of the array.
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where 4k sector size drives with 512e reporting enabled show wrong physical size when running a read capacity 16 command. - Fixed an issue where speed negotiation for 3Gig SATA drives is not handled properly. - Added Support for Report Luns Command - Fixed an issue where OS hang during install of Linux system to a SSD - Fixed an issue where SAS device page 0 may still be present for Initiator devices that have been removed from the topology. - Fixed an issue where RHEL 6.3 hangs during boot with IBM 600GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter - Fixed an issue where a non-PI volume made up of all PI capable drives, may come up as PI enabled after a controller reset. - Fixed an issue where a fault 0X8808 occurs when a reset is issued to the controller that has max number of active/inactive volumes - Fixed an issue where "Device Present" Flag of SAS device page0 is not set for initiator controller in then target controller when two controllers are connected to each other in initiator/target mode. - Fixed an issue where extended tags and PCIe upconfigure capability are disabled in SAS2208 and SAS2308. - Fixed an issue where force full discovery does not trigger rediscovery of an expander after the initial expander discovery fails. - Fixed an issue where single RAID0 volume activation was succeeding, even though controller does not support single drive RAID0. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume of Non-PI drives moves to optimal state when a PI drive is hotplugged and 'Enable PI mixing' not enabled. - Fixed an issue where Locate LED's stop automatically after 3-4 minutes before user issues command to turn off the Locate LED's. - Fixed an issue where fault 0x8618 is seen when a new volume is created in the presence of another volume which is undergoing resync along with IO. - Fixed an issue background initialization does not start on RAID0 volume with PI drives, after removing and reinserting a volume member.
BIOS - Fixed an issue where core BIOS displays warning message when it fails to add all of the drives connected to int13 chain, then waits for user to press any key to continue further, rather than continuing after 3 seconds. - Fixed an issue where incorrect adapter is being tagged as the first adapter found. - Fixed an issue where the save or discard changes prompt appears after a failed attempt to set volume as the boot device in BIOS CU. - Fixed an issue where BIOS CU provides incorrect device pointer when checking for raid disk to allow/disallow setting boot device. - Fixed an issue where device properties screen is invoked from a direct attach device using Alt+D in SAS topology screen, device traversing [Alt+N & Alt+P] is restricted within the direct attach device and expander attach devices are not traversed. - Fixed an issue where the drive status field does not show 'Max dsks' when trying to select 11th drive for RAID10 volume. - Fixed an issue maximum Int13 devices settings does not get honored, when the value is set as 0 in BIOS CU - Fixed an issue where drive size of 1.088GiB was showing as 1.880GiB. - Fixed an issue current boot device set to device at slot 4" message Not displaying for Adaptors with boot order other than 0. - Fixed an issue where the BIOS CU navigates to create new volume screen instead of back to raid properties screen. - Fixed an issue where BIOS banner showed 'FF' for slot information. - Fixed an issue where the drive's SMART status is always shown as no irrespective of drive's SMART status, under Pred Fail column of the manage hot spare screen and create new volume screen. - Fixed an issue where SAS2 BIOS: volume size shows inconsistent value in the create new volume' screen after selecting the last volume member. - Fixed an issue where a disabled adapter causes the second adapter status to show as unavailable even though the second adapter is enabled. Uefi Enhancement 1/2 - Added capability to create an IR RAID volume in non-PI mode, even when all member drives are PI Capable. - Added PI info and ability to control creation of PI Volume in UCM of BSD HII. - Added new form manage PHY settings to support enabling or disabling of a controller PH Fixes: - Fixed an issue view foreign volume option is disabled with a foreign volume in the configuration.
- Fixed issue where acceptable indistro device drivers may not pass minium driver check. BIOS Changes Enhancement(s): - Core BIOS and BIOS configuration utility will display "FF" as the PCI slot number when proper slot information is not available. - Increased the disk drive spin-up timeout value to accommodate disk drives having larger spin up times.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where the adapter order does not get written to NVM and "Updating Adapter Order" displays on every reboot. - Fixed issue where zero sized volume was showing "4. 0 GiB." - Fixed issue where devices, which are not attached to adapter 0, could not be promoted to positions in the boot order when they were selected in the configuration utility. - Fixed an issue where IOS Banner(POST) not showing SAS Discovery error when more than one HBA is connected to the host system. - Fixed an issue where the SMART status is not correctly displayed for bare drives. - Fixed an issue in SAS topology where a RAID disk is highlighted and attempted to set as preferred boot device or alternate boot device, the configuration utility displays a SAVE/DISCARD prompt. - Fixed an issue where the firmware was showing a large elapsed time when a format operation crosses midnight in the system clock.
Firmware Changes Enhancement(s): - Added support for 4GB DIMM - Added the ability for user the enable/disable of the drive write cache during the BIOS start up.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where a request sense command, which is executed after a SATA drive is in active state is moved to idle power condition state, has no 'Additional Sense' information set. - Fixed an issue where protected information error "Logical block reference tag check failed" is received when an IR volume is deleted. - Fixed an issue Self-Test Results log page where values for update parameter code, format and linking, and parameter length are not recorded. - Fixed an issue sending vital product data inquiry with vital product data page set as invalid (0xFF) while diagnostic is running on a SATA drive results in segmentation fault 0x1901. - Fixed an issue where input/output is sent to SATA drives before the drives are ready. - Fixed an issue where fault 8405 was being hit while disabling and enabling the phy to which secondary drive is connected with IOs active. - Fixed an issue where subsequent commands sent to a SATA drive fail after a write same command failure until NCQ error handling is triggered or the device is reset. - Fixed an issue where Report Luns command sent to SATA drive fails if the drive is spun down. - Fixed an issue where hotspare does not resynch with second raid volume when both volumes are in degraded state. - Fixed an issue where incorrect sense data is populated when Security Protocol IN/OUT command is sent to supported drive. - Fixed an issue where allocation length for inquiry SCSI Command is not handled Properly during SATA Drive Format. - Fixed an issue during SATA drive format where vital product data inquiry command is executed for SATA drive with invalid page code, and the command is passed with no data instead for failing with CC and sense data. - Fixed an issue where the host will not indicate the existence of the expander attached drives if the direct attached device re-ordering feature is enabled. - Fixed an issue where protected information errors are observed on a RAID 1 volume its BGI is not completed, and its member physical disks are removed and inserted. - Fixed an issue where the TM response was set to failed if the device is missing due to the DO NOT SEND TASK IU flag being enabled. - Fixed an issue where DMD (Device Missing Delay) timer is not set to the default time when the total Report Device Missing Delay is greater than 0x7F seconds. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume fails to resynch when a new compatible bare drive is available in the primary drive slot. - Fixed an issue where error handling for errors, that cause the DMA engines to halt, are not handled properly and multithreaded IOs can hang if the same control block is used too soon. - Fixed an issue where a third hotspare is created even if the number of hotspares currently present in the RAID Configuration is 2. - Fixed an issue where inactive foreign volume information cannot be seen in SASBIOS when a native volume is deleted.
UEFI Changes Enhancement(s) - Additional information such as vendor id and product id added to the HII Create Configuration Screen. - Added ability to check to detect missing hotspares to HII. - Modified to be obtained PCI Slot Number information from the system firmware protected information. - Additional character "M" will be displayed as part of the device display identifier of a multipathed disk. - Ability in HII to detect missing hotspares and provide a facility to delete the missing hotspares. - Implemented Configuration Summary and Simple Virtual Disk Creation Support for Unified Configuration Management. - Modified UEFI driver to wait for a maximum of 10 seconds for the controller to become ready, so controller gets discovered in the OS.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where Enable/Disable write cache does not work for SAS drives. - Fixed an issue where HII Configuration utility does not allow the user to create a RAID0 with single disk present in the topology. - Fixed an issue in Create Configuration menu where additional drive information is not getting updated appropriately in HELP area. - Modified to prevent Write Cache settings options from appearing for the IR firmware. - Fixed an issue where SATA volume members and hotspare drives are labeled as 'M' in a multipathed environment. - Fixed an issue to prevent HII from allowing the option to enable/disable write cache for SATA drives. - Fixed an issue where multipathing is disabled in Manufacturing page settings, but volume members and hotspare drives are labeled as "M." - UEFI driver modified to check BIOS Options in order to determine if is should manage the controller.
Fixes: - Fixed issue where HII do not report Multi-LUN devices from external RAID enclosure. - Do not show external RAID LUNs in HII RAID configuration page. - Report NVDATA version consistently in Hex or Decimal. - Fixed issue where update will not install with the 09.101 megaraid_sas device driver.
Note: HII changes may not affect all controllers. Changes for the controller are based on RAID volume support. - HII fix to return EFI_SUCCESS when RETRIEVE Action is given in HII Callback function. - HII fix for Write cache disabling fails for SATA HDD/SSD connected to the IT controller. - HII fix for saved Controller Events Filename. - Behvioral change for the way a volume is created in HII.
Note: The following fixes only effect blade systems that support Bofm. - Fixed boot issues in Windows 2008 where after installation in uEFI the os will not boot due to the BuildDevicePath not allocating enough memory for the DevicePathreturned to caller. - Fixed issue with Bofm configurations where the BOFM supplied addresses for external/switch attach Phys are being assigned to the internal/direct attach Phys. - Fixed a Bofm issue where the SAS WWIDs not reverting to Man Page 5 Default when a Blade is moved back to non-BOFM slot.
Note: HII changes may not affect all controllers. Changes for the controller are based on RAID volume support.
- HII change to Remove Legacy BIOS Enable/Disable option. - Fixed issue where after creating a volume using SATA SSD the Associated Physical Disks always show up as SATA HDD. - Fixed issue where a hotspare could not be created for any volume in the HII browser. - HII fix for the View Physical Disk Properties form where the Serial number of SATA disks were being displaced with a space. - HII fix for the IR help strings displayed when using an IT controller. - Fixed HII issue where a 'Question value mismatch with Option value' error occurs when saying No for creating RAID10/RAID1E volume. - Fixed HII issue where help is not available when having only RAID0 and RAID1 levels in Create Configuration form. - Fixed a problem where the UEFI driver ATA PassThru Protocol is corrupt while trying to access the Mode field. - HII behavior change for 'Manage Foreign Configurations.' - HII change to provide proper extended RAID Levels in help messages based on supported extended RAID Levels.
- Fixed SMP passthrough command failure due to smp back off interrupt. Appears in system log as 0x311c0030. (SCGCQ00889925) - Fixed issue where host boot fails in the presence of blank flash/corrupt firmware in flash (SCGCQ00894439) - Fixed issue where SATA drive errors, bad performance, or boot failure may appear after update to 20.00.02.00 firmware (SCGCQ00859226)(Retain Tip# H015210)
Version 1.20.01 - Moderate Impact/Low Probablility of Occurrence ------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 7.39.00.00 20.00.03.00 7.27.04.00
- Fixed an issue seen with RAID 10 array where during a warm OS boot, certain drive models with a long spin up delay may get marked as failed for being unresponsive. This delay ultimately triggers a rebuild of the array.
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where 4k sector size drives with 512e reporting enabled show wrong physical size when running a read capacity 16 command. - Fixed an issue where speed negotiation for 3Gig SATA drives is not handled properly. - Added Support for Report Luns Command - Fixed an issue where OS hang during install of Linux system to a SSD - Fixed an issue where SAS device page 0 may still be present for Initiator devices that have been removed from the topology. - Fixed an issue where RHEL 6.3 hangs during boot with IBM 600GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter - Fixed an issue where a non-PI volume made up of all PI capable drives, may come up as PI enabled after a controller reset. - Fixed an issue where a fault 0X8808 occurs when a reset is issued to the controller that has max number of active/inactive volumes - Fixed an issue where "Device Present" Flag of SAS device page0 is not set for initiator controller in then target controller when two controllers are connected to each other in initiator/target mode. - Fixed an issue where extended tags and PCIe upconfigure capability are disabled in SAS2208 and SAS2308. - Fixed an issue where force full discovery does not trigger rediscovery of an expander after the initial expander discovery fails. - Fixed an issue where single RAID0 volume activation was succeeding, even though controller does not support single drive RAID0. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume of Non-PI drives moves to optimal state when a PI drive is hotplugged and 'Enable PI mixing' not enabled. - Fixed an issue where Locate LED's stop automatically after 3-4 minutes before user issues command to turn off the Locate LED's. - Fixed an issue where fault 0x8618 is seen when a new volume is created in the presence of another volume which is undergoing resync along with IO. - Fixed an issue background initialization does not start on RAID0 volume with PI drives, after removing and reinserting a volume member.
BIOS - Fixed an issue where core BIOS displays warning message when it fails to add all of the drives connected to int13 chain, then waits for user to press any key to continue further, rather than continuing after 3 seconds. - Fixed an issue where incorrect adapter is being tagged as the first adapter found. - Fixed an issue where the save or discard changes prompt appears after a failed attempt to set volume as the boot device in BIOS CU. - Fixed an issue where BIOS CU provides incorrect device pointer when checking for raid disk to allow/disallow setting boot device. - Fixed an issue where device properties screen is invoked from a direct attach device using Alt+D in SAS topology screen, device traversing [Alt+N & Alt+P] is restricted within the direct attach device and expander attach devices are not traversed. - Fixed an issue where the drive status field does not show 'Max dsks' when trying to select 11th drive for RAID10 volume. - Fixed an issue maximum Int13 devices settings does not get honored, when the value is set as 0 in BIOS CU - Fixed an issue where drive size of 1.088GiB was showing as 1.880GiB. - Fixed an issue current boot device set to device at slot 4" message Not displaying for Adaptors with boot order other than 0. - Fixed an issue where the BIOS CU navigates to create new volume screen instead of back to raid properties screen. - Fixed an issue where BIOS banner showed 'FF' for slot information. - Fixed an issue where the drive's SMART status is always shown as no irrespective of drive's SMART status, under Pred Fail column of the manage hot spare screen and create new volume screen. - Fixed an issue where SAS2 BIOS: volume size shows inconsistent value in the create new volume' screen after selecting the last volume member. - Fixed an issue where a disabled adapter causes the second adapter status to show as unavailable even though the second adapter is enabled. Uefi Enhancement 1/2 - Added capability to create an IR RAID volume in non-PI mode, even when all member drives are PI Capable. - Added PI info and ability to control creation of PI Volume in UCM of BSD HII. - Added new form manage PHY settings to support enabling or disabling of a controller PH Fixes: - Fixed an issue view foreign volume option is disabled with a foreign volume in the configuration.
BIOS Changes Enhancement(s): - Core BIOS and BIOS configuration utility will display "FF" as the PCI slot number when proper slot information is not available. - Increased the disk drive spin-up timeout value to accommodate disk drives having larger spin up times.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where the adapter order does not get written to NVM and "Updating Adapter Order" displays on every reboot. - Fixed issue where zero sized volume was showing "4. 0 GiB." - Fixed issue where devices, which are not attached to adapter 0, could not be promoted to positions in the boot order when they were selected in the configuration utility. - Fixed an issue where IOS Banner(POST) not showing SAS Discovery error when more than one HBA is connected to the host system. - Fixed an issue where the SMART status is not correctly displayed for bare drives. - Fixed an issue in SAS topology where a RAID disk is highlighted and attempted to set as preferred boot device or alternate boot device, the configuration utility displays a SAVE/DISCARD prompt. - Fixed an issue where the firmware was showing a large elapsed time when a format operation crosses midnight in the system clock.
Firmware Changes Enhancement(s): - Added support for 4GB DIMM - Added the ability for user the enable/disable of the drive write cache during the BIOS start up.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where a request sense command, which is executed after a SATA drive is in active state is moved to idle power condition state, has no 'Additional Sense' information set. - Fixed an issue where protected information error "Logical block reference tag check failed" is received when an IR volume is deleted. - Fixed an issue Self-Test Results log page where values for update parameter code, format and linking, and parameter length are not recorded. - Fixed an issue sending vital product data inquiry with vital product data page set as invalid (0xFF) while diagnostic is running on a SATA drive results in segmentation fault 0x1901. - Fixed an issue where input/output is sent to SATA drives before the drives are ready. - Fixed an issue where fault 8405 was being hit while disabling and enabling the phy to which secondary drive is connected with IOs active. - Fixed an issue where subsequent commands sent to a SATA drive fail after a write same command failure until NCQ error handling is triggered or the device is reset. - Fixed an issue where Report Luns command sent to SATA drive fails if the drive is spun down. - Fixed an issue where hotspare does not resynch with second raid volume when both volumes are in degraded state. - Fixed an issue where incorrect sense data is populated when Security Protocol IN/OUT command is sent to supported drive. - Fixed an issue where allocation length for inquiry SCSI Command is not handled Properly during SATA Drive Format. - Fixed an issue during SATA drive format where vital product data inquiry command is executed for SATA drive with invalid page code, and the command is passed with no data instead for failing with CC and sense data. - Fixed an issue where the host will not indicate the existence of the expander attached drives if the direct attached device re-ordering feature is enabled. - Fixed an issue where protected information errors are observed on a RAID 1 volume its BGI is not completed, and its member physical disks are removed and inserted. - Fixed an issue where the TM response was set to failed if the device is missing due to the DO NOT SEND TASK IU flag being enabled. - Fixed an issue where DMD (Device Missing Delay) timer is not set to the default time when the total Report Device Missing Delay is greater than 0x7F seconds. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume fails to resynch when a new compatible bare drive is available in the primary drive slot. - Fixed an issue where error handling for errors, that cause the DMA engines to halt, are not handled properly and multithreaded IOs can hang if the same control block is used too soon. - Fixed an issue where a third hotspare is created even if the number of hotspares currently present in the RAID Configuration is 2. - Fixed an issue where inactive foreign volume information cannot be seen in SASBIOS when a native volume is deleted.
UEFI Changes Enhancement(s) - Additional information such as vendor id and product id added to the HII Create Configuration Screen. - Added ability to check to detect missing hotspares to HII. - Modified to be obtained PCI Slot Number information from the system firmware protected information. - Additional character "M" will be displayed as part of the device display identifier of a multipathed disk. - Ability in HII to detect missing hotspares and provide a facility to delete the missing hotspares. - Implemented Configuration Summary and Simple Virtual Disk Creation Support for Unified Configuration Management. - Modified UEFI driver to wait for a maximum of 10 seconds for the controller to become ready, so controller gets discovered in the OS.
Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where Enable/Disable write cache does not work for SAS drives. - Fixed an issue where HII Configuration utility does not allow the user to create a RAID0 with single disk present in the topology. - Fixed an issue in Create Configuration menu where additional drive information is not getting updated appropriately in HELP area. - Modified to prevent Write Cache settings options from appearing for the IR firmware. - Fixed an issue where SATA volume members and hotspare drives are labeled as 'M' in a multipathed environment. - Fixed an issue to prevent HII from allowing the option to enable/disable write cache for SATA drives. - Fixed an issue where multipathing is disabled in Manufacturing page settings, but volume members and hotspare drives are labeled as "M." - UEFI driver modified to check BIOS Options in order to determine if is should manage the controller.
Fixes: - Fixed issue where HII do not report Multi-LUN devices from external RAID enclosure. - Do not show external RAID LUNs in HII RAID configuration page. - Report NVDATA version consistently in Hex or Decimal.
Note: HII changes may not affect all controllers. Changes for the controller are based on RAID volume support. - HII fix to return EFI_SUCCESS when RETRIEVE Action is given in HII Callback function. - HII fix for Write cache disabling fails for SATA HDD/SSD connected to the IT controller. - HII fix for saved Controller Events Filename. - Behvioral change for the way a volume is created in HII.
Note: The following fixes only effect blade systems that support Bofm. - Fixed boot issues in Windows 2008 where after installation in uEFI the os will not boot due to the BuildDevicePath not allocating enough memory for the DevicePathreturned to caller. - Fixed issue with Bofm configurations where the BOFM supplied addresses for external/switch attach Phys are being assigned to the internal/direct attach Phys. - Fixed a Bofm issue where the SAS WWIDs not reverting to Man Page 5 Default when a Blade is moved back to non-BOFM slot.
Note: HII changes may not affect all controllers. Changes for the controller are based on RAID volume support.
- HII change to Remove Legacy BIOS Enable/Disable option. - Fixed issue where after creating a volume using SATA SSD the Associated Physical Disks always show up as SATA HDD. - Fixed issue where a hotspare could not be created for any volume in the HII browser. - HII fix for the View Physical Disk Properties form where the Serial number of SATA disks were being displaced with a space. - HII fix for the IR help strings displayed when using an IT controller. - Fixed HII issue where a 'Question value mismatch with Option value' error occurs when saying No for creating RAID10/RAID1E volume. - Fixed HII issue where help is not available when having only RAID0 and RAID1 levels in Create Configuration form. - Fixed a problem where the UEFI driver ATA PassThru Protocol is corrupt while trying to access the Mode field. - HII behavior change for 'Manage Foreign Configurations.' - HII change to provide proper extended RAID Levels in help messages based on supported extended RAID Levels.
IBM HBA/LSI 6Gb SAS/SATA/SSD Driver for Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/2003
Supported Controllers: - IBM N2125 SAS/SATA Controller (46C9011) - IBM N2115 SAS/SATA Controller (46C8989) - ServeRAID H1135 Controller for IBM Flex System and BladeCenter (90Y4750) - ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4492) - IBM 6Gb SAS HBA (46M0907) - IBM 6Gb SSD HBA (68Y7362) - Onboard LSI 2004 SAS
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
2.00.75.00 - Low Probability of Occurrence/Special Case ------------------
Enhancements: - Generate a fault/alert when junction temperature approaches max spec (SCGCQ00559883)
- Added timer to prevent ATA commands from hanging. (Needed as part of SCGCQ00694282 fix) (SCGCQ00751758)
Fixes: - New drive failed to be recognized after replacing a failed SATA HDD (SCGCQ00694282)
Version 2.00.69.01 - Suggested ------------------ Enhancement(s): - Added driver configuration parameter to control MaxDevices during crash dump mode. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where a blue screen could occur with driver fault AD010042. - Fixed an issue where PFA LED is not turning off after the PFA drive is removed from the back plane.
Version 2.00.60.03 - Suggested ------------------ Enhancements(s): - Added support for Windows 2012 R2
Version 2.00.60.00 - Suggested ------------------ Enhancements(s):\ - Added support for 8MB+ IO's - Modified sense data processing code to check for an ATA Passthrough command (either 12 or 16 byte). - Added RTTrace hooks to increase logging coverage within driver. - Implemented Extended SRB support (StorPort enhancement) in driver. - Added checks to catch physical DMAable memory allocations outside a single 4GB block as required by the adapter hardware.
Fixes:. - Fixed an issue where cable break between enclosures causes the adapter to reset. - Fixed an issue where MSM sends input/output control causing BSOD in Windows 2012 Extended SRB driver. - Fixed an issue where SAS2FLASH sends input/output control causing BSOD in Windows 2012 Extended SRB driver. - Fixed data alignment issue which could result in corrupt sense data under Windows 2012. - Changed RTTRACE version to match record structure used by driver. - Fixed an issue in Windows Server 2003 where executing LSIutil 1.65 Option 65 virtual serial port causes a bluescreen if memory has been severely fragmented.
Version 2.00.45.00 - Suggested ------------------ Ehancement(s): - Add support for ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x - Add conversion of sense data descriptor format to fixed format, so drives 2.1TB in size and greater can return descriptor format sense data. For these drives to work properly under Windows, the miniport needs to convert the descriptor format sense data to fixed format before returning the sense data up the stack.
Fixes: - Add check for sense data type (fixed vs. descriptor) in CheckSmartInfo where large physical drives 2TB in size and greater use the descriptor format for sense data in order to pass back 64-bit LBA addresses. Most drives use the fixed format sense data, is the only format the upper layers of the Windows stack supports
Version 2.00.17.30 - Initial release ------------------ ibm_dd_mpt2sas_2_00_75_00_windows_32-64_chg
ServeRAID M1000 Series SAS/SATA Controller Firmware Update
Adapters Supported: ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System X (81Y4448) ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0831)
Version 20.13.1-0252 --------------------
Version 20.13.1-0245 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------------- - Fixed an issue where virtual drivers become inconsistent after the system an AC failure. (SCGCQ00897229) - Fixed an issue where Illegal request sense messages are seen repeatedly in FW logs due to attempts to collect temperaure for pds which does not support page (0x2F) at every smart poll interval. (SCGCQ00898459) - Fixed an issue where command "cli set securitykey=Lsi@12345" fails with error code "1001" and error message "invalid key". - Added a warning message when preboot configuration utility is Disabled but the user tries to launch it. (SCGCQ00662761) - Fixed an issue where WebBIOS Advance software option menu from main page could hang the system. (SCGCQ00683327) - Updated the drive speed display string to support 12Gb/s (SCGCQ00751036) - Corrected inconsistency in size showing in for total capacity property between webBIOS and MSM (SCGCQ00752176)
Version 20.13.1-0200 - Critical ------------------- Enhancement: - Support LSI iMR Private Interface for Intel iOMMU/VT-d Support when combined with latest system uEFI - Display drive speed for 12 GB Seagate hard drives in MSM. - List battery status in BIOS as N/A for iMR controllers Fixes: - Fixed incompatibility issue with System x3200/3250 M3 causing hang condition (RETAIN Tip H211826) - Fixed an issue where self-encrypting (SED) hard disk password fails to allow access to virtual disk configurations. - Fixed an issue where the ‘cli set securitykey=Lsi@12345’ command fails with error code 1001 and error message invalid key. - Fixed an issue where WebBIOS advanced software option locks the server. - Changed patrol read completion time calculation to include time for associated IO operations. - Fixed SGPIOs signal issue.
Version 20.11.1-0184 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Updated SBR to avoid an errata that could cause correctable CPU errors on some systems. - Fixed an issue where NULL events may show in event log, preventing capture of controller event logs.
Version 20.11.1-0137 - Suggested ------------------- Enhancement(s): - Update recovery mode page (WriteRetryCount and recoveryTimeLimit) during discovery of a drive and during spinup recovery when sense 6/29 is received.
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where certain drives were reporting a temperature of 65 degrees Celsius. - Fixed an issue where systems with SSD HDD will pop up an error message after creating a virtual drive via HII on M1115. - Fixed an issue where the drive state is not modified when a recon virtual drive is created from the reboot path.
Version 20.10.1-0107 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed grammatical errors in WebBIOS. - Fixed an issue in WebBIOS Drive Group Definition screen where enclosures should not be selectable in the Drives column. - Fixed an issue in uEFI-WebBIOS where the white bars do not match up under VD properties page. - Fixed an HII browser issue where a drive performing a copyback displayed the state as "Replacing" but other utilities showed the state as copyback. - Fixed an HII browser display issue where SATA drives showed "0" for the value of RPM under drive properties. - Fixed a display issue where the HDD port number showed incorrectly in an HII browser. - Fixed an HII browser issues where creating a global hotspare gave the user an error message. - Fixed an HII browser issue when security is changed with local key management the changing security report current mode is disabled as external keu management. - Fixed an HII browser issue where the user got the following error message, "The request command has invalid arguments," when changing the security key report. - Fixed an HII browser issue where the user was unable to save the configuration after adding an extra span during array creation. - Fixed an HII browser issue where the return value was not correct when the browser called extract config with a result of null.
Version 20.10.1-0101 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where a system uefi error will occur when the bootTargetId is set to 0. - Fixed a problem where the firmware will allocate the sata bbl entry for the drive when moved from unsupported to supported. - Fixed a firmware issue where the TargetId for the recon LD should be set to its original LD. - Fixed a HII error message "Question Value mismatch with Option value!" after selecting factory defaults in HII. - Fixed an issue where the firmware fails to create the configuration and utilities fail to report the VD size after the reconstruction.
Version 20.10.1-0091-01 - Non-Critical ------------------- Fix - Fixed issue where update may fail to find all supported controllers.
Version 20.10.1-0091- Suggested ------------------- Enhancement: - Add support for ServeRAID M1115
Fixes: - Fixed issue where after starting a reconstruction on a RAID 0 the progress %, does not increase. - Fixed an issue where a new drive, inserted after a drive failure, goes to JBOD and not auto rebuild. - Fixed physical drive count issue that stated more than (16) devices already exists
Version 20.10.1-0069- Suggested ------------------- Enhancement: - ServeRAID M1015 Dimmer Switches are disabled by default.
Fixes: - Fixed issue where enabling security causes the configuration to be missing, and a configured FDE array to be seen as foreign on reboot. - Fixed issue where WebBIOS gives garbled message when enabing FDE on an existing Disk Group - Fixed issue where the logical Unit ID (VPD page 0x83) changed after foreign import. - Fixed issue where the LDBBM entries are incorrect after foreign import. - Fixed a problem where firmware was taking to long to complete the PCI config read. Causing the system to generate an NMI. - Fixed issue where the controller does not work with pci set to nomsi in kdump kernel. - Fixed issue where the LED behavior is incorrect, wrong drive will blink activity. - Fixed issue where the configuration becomes foreign after the firmware fails multiple attempts to access raid key during boot. - Fixed firmware issue where a replacement drive is not seen if the replacement is added during power cycle. - Fixed an intermittent RAID key failure during power-on.
Version 20.10.1-0052- Critical ------------------- Enhancement: - Add support to pass SMART errors for JBOD drives to MSM
Fixes: - Added check to return SCSI sense Check condition if PMI is set and LBA is non zero for SCSI Read Cap 16. - Fixed issue where a bluescreen occurs handling RAID 1 with HSP and medium errors. The bluescreen occurs becausethe driver timesout while fw is retrying sense 0x02. Firmware causes Fatal Error when HSP drive responded with Sense 0x02 for Write/Verify or TUR - Fixed hang condition or condition where the uEFI driver does not load due to the uEFI Driver issuing a command in poll mode to firmware to early
Version 20.10.1-0045 - Critical ------------------- Fix: - Fixed issue where firmware has incomplete writes during power fail and recovery
Version 20.10.1-0036 - Critical ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed issue where uEFI WebBIOS version may not display the product name of the second controller - Fixed issue to prevent users to downlevel firmware to older versions - Fixed an issue where firmware reports "Unexpected sense, Invalid field in CDB" for LOG SENSE command sent to Seagate drives - Fixed issue where SMART failures can take longer then 5 minutes to report or in some cases fail to report - Fixed issue where it appears to the user the harddrive cache policy is changed when requested but the change did not occur
Version 20.10.1-0022 - Critical ------------------- - Fixed issue where Windows 2008 R2 WS08 cannot be installed properly on ServeRAID M1015 SATA JBOD with a uEFI boot. - Added warning message when user tried to change more then 16 drives to JBOD. - Addressed a problem where direct attached drives are given incorrect slot numbers - Added fixes from LSI channel products. - Fixed issue where a single JBOD drive will not boot after a Windows 2008 R2 installation.
Version 20.5.1-0014 - Critical ------------------- - Addressed data issue with database applications that use overlapping read write operating. - Addressed data issue which may occur during a reconstruction on some RAID levels that have an associated CacheCade virtual drive enabled. - Fixed problem where the controller may halt if a drive has medium errors that are being used in a check consistency, patrol read, or have delayed writes.
Version 20.1.1-0059 - Critical ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where a physical drive that is changed to JBOD from powersave will become unconfigured good again - Addresses an issue where data becomes inaccessible when a drive is secured after data has been written
Version 20.1.1-0049 - Suggested ------------------- Enhancement - Support M1000 key for RAID 5 and SED support
Fixes: - Fixed an issue in M3950M3 where webbios would hang - Fixed an issue where the controller properties in WebBIOS such as Rebuild, CC and BGI are not changing when we use up and down arrow keys. - Fixed an issue where Enclosure ID's are not being shown in MSM
Version 20.1.1-0046 - Suggested ------------------- - Enabled support for the ServeRAID M1000 Series Advanced Feature Key.
Note: All Logical Drives must previously have the encryption enabled before data is written on to the SED drives. Please read Retain TIP H123152 for more details.
Version 20.1.1-0042 ------------------- - Initial release ibm_fw_sraidmr_1000-20_13_1-0252_windows_32-64_chg
BIOS and Firmware Update for ServeRAID M5200 Series SAS/SATA Controllers
Adapters Supported: ServeRAID M5225-2GB SAS/SATA Controller ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 24.12.0-0024 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence --------------------
Fixes: - Fixed the potential of a data miscompare that was observed only at a vendor test facility under very heavy I/O and abnormal practices (SCGCQ00990093, Port of SCGCQ00976904) - Fixed an issue where performing back-to-back target resets on the same JBOD may results in an Controller Reset (SCGCQ00857181) - Fixed an issue where firmware may allow a Reconstruction to be performed when Pinned Cache is present (SCGCQ00857692) - Fixed an issue where "MonTask" error may occur when importing a Foreign Configuration (SCGCQ00860066) - Fixed an issue where controller does not Stop on Error and boots into Operating System when Pinned Cache is present(SCGCQ00860503) - Fixed an issue where firmware allows CacheCade Virtual Drive deletion when Pinned Cache is present (SCGCQ00871973) - Fixed an issue where a firmware downgrade FW downgrade may fail when IO and Background Operations are being performed (SCGCQ00873239) - Fixed an issue where error "Core 0 exception in line 245 in ../../raid/1078int.c" may occur when Target Reset sent to Physical Disks in parallele with Background Operations (SCGCQ00878554) - Fixed an issue where error "Assertion failure in ../../dm/src/dmDrvPrep.c at line 836" may occur (SCGCQ00879198) - Fixed an issue where firmware may hang on Task Abort (SCGCQ00881901) - Fixed an issue where iPtr and rPtr values may be greater than the size of the buffer (SCGCQ00886685) - Fixed an issue where more IOs were allowed than the available buffer could support (SCGCQ00894472) - Fixed an issue where the Operating System may become unresponsive after creating multiple sliced Virtual Disks (SCGCQ00894608) - Fixed an issue where adapter may reset under certain conditions (SCGCQ00895554) - Fixed an issue where error "line 1271 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur when running FastPath with CacheCade (SCGCQ00898799) - Fixed an issue where forceCacheFlush was occurring in an iMR context where it doesn't apply (SCGCQ00899762) - Fixed an issue where importing 240 Virtual Drives may cause a firmware fault (SCGCQ00900601) - Fixed an issue where error "line 229 in file ../../raid/mtask.c" may occur when Hibernating Windows 10 (SCGCQ00905864) - Fixed an issue where importing a Foreign Configuration may fail (SCGCQ00908325) - Fixed an issue where FastPath IO may not time out properly (SCGCQ00910124) - Fixed an issue where StorCLI may report an incorrect ScapBatVersionNO when using command "/c0/cv show all" (SCGCQ00914343) - Fixed an issue where some default values may not be picked up for unchanged controller properties sharing the same byte (SCGCQ00914740) - Fixed an issue where chain mid allocation for JBOD may fail (SCGCQ00915081) - Fixed an issue where configuration creation may fail after creation of a CacheCade Virtual Drive followed by JBOD creation (SCGCQ00917307) - Fixed an issue where a cable pull during a Target Reset on JBOD may result in a data TLB error (SCGCQ00923289) - Fixed an issue where controller may become unresponsive after hitting an OCM error(SCGCQ00924986) - Fixed an issue where the Physical Device map was being updated unnecessarily (SCGCQ00927173) - Fixed an issue where some drives could not be discovered successfully (SCGCQ00927792) - Fixed an issue where attempting to stop a Drive Erase operation from application may cause firmware to hang (SCGCQ00928150) - Fixed an issue where controller disappears when performing a cable pull (SCGCQ00928333) - Fixed an issue where CacheCade Virtual Drive creation may fail with false error (SCGCQ00930044) - Fixed an issue where controller may hang when importing a drive into a RAID0 CacheCade Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00934196) - Fixed an issue where firmware would not allow an Online Firmware Update (SCGCQ00936693) - Fixed an issue where error "line 219 in file ../../raid/mficmd.c" may occur when powering system on from S3 sleep (SCGCQ00937487) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 1281 in file /raid/1078dma.c" may occur when running enclosure cable pulls with CacheCade Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00941531) - Fixed an issue where firmware recovers invalid cache after firmware update (SCGCQ00944012) - Fixed an issue where LdInitPdDone did not include flush command block (SCGCQ00945033) - Fixed an issue where driver may panic and controller may reset on medium errors with Pinned Cache (SCGCQ00948257) - Fixed an issue where Virtual Drives don't revert back to Write-Back once the controller Pinned Cache is destaged (SCGCQ00948466) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault when running full initialization on Virtual Drives with LDBBM entries created during Consistency Check (SCGCQ00952627) - Fixed an issue where a SES Discovery Error may occur on repeated retries for some expanders (SCGCQ00976741) - Fixed an issue where the drive bay LED may not turn off when the drive is removed (SCGCQ01003387) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 4946 in file ../../raid/ld.c" may occur when multipath cable pull occurs Patrol Read (SCGCQ00857528) - Fixed an issue where Locate LED turns off when cable failover performed (SCGCQ00869681) - Fixed an issue where "Watchdog Timer Exception" error followed by firmware fault after initiating Physical Drive erase operation (SCGCQ00872140) - Fixed an issue where a firmware fault occurs when issuing Task Management commands on 240 JBODs while running IO (SCGCQ00872889) - Fixed an issue where Virtual Drive deletion could cause IO freeze time to increase (SCGCQ00873201) - Fixed an issue where a data TLB error would occur after issuing task abort (SCGCQ00873991) - Fixed an issue where "MonTask" error may occur due to a Full-Disk Encryption / Self-Encrypting Disk that fails to spinup (SCGCQ00874332) - Fixed an issue where error "adapter at baseport not responding" may occur (SCGCQ00880919) - Fixed an issue where cache is not flushed immediately upon firmware recieving the cache-flush out-of-band command (SCGCQ00882125) - Fixed an issue where IO may slow while deleting Virtual Drives (SCGCQ00891924) - Fixed an issue where IO halts on JBODs with "read/write error" when the target drives are reset in Linux (SCGCQ00893588) - Fixed an issue where "MonTask: line 1413 in file ../../raid/config.c" may occur when creating a CacheCade Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00894610) - Fixed an issue where firmware does not log controller property change event for enabling/disabling 240VD feature (SCGCQ00895577) - Fixed an issue where event length may come up as 0 (SCGCQ00897406) - Fixed an issue where firmware was not seding the proper status for aborted commands (SCGCQ00900250) - Fixed an issue where controller firmware may fault during Hibernation or when the driver loads twice (SCGCQ00902938) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault after creating 240 Virtual Drives and rebooting the server (SCGCQ00905416) - Fixed an issue where progress for CacheCade disassociation activity is not displayed for all source Virtual Drives (SCGCQ00906846) - Fixed an issue where error "Assert at line 1181 mpthostcmd.c" may occur when FastPath has been disabled or for a timeout IO (SCGCQ00910006) - Fixed an issue where error "LMID HS-FIFO Error 0x8" may occur when removing a redundant path to a JBOD with IO (SCGCQ00914274) - Fixed an issue where applications may show incorrect value for Max Parallel Commands field of Controller Information in iMR(SCGCQ00914751) - Fixed an issue where firmware was failing ABORT TASK and ABORT TASK SET commands on SATA JBOD (SCGCQ00915088) - Fixed an issue where exception may occur on Online Controller Reset (SCGCQ00917523) - Fixed an issue where "MonTask" error may occur in a drive removal or multipath removal scenario (SCGCQ00919229) - Fixed an issue where the wrong MFI_STAT is returned from PdDcmdSysPdMapAbort (SCGCQ00930593) - Fixed an issue where an Online Firmware Update may fail when downgrading from firmware that supports 240 Virtual Drives to firmware that does not (SCGCQ00930917) - Fixed an issue where "DM_EnableFastPathOnDevice :: FP enabled on devhandle" may be printed in logs even though FastPath is enabled (SCGCQ00936617) - Fixed an issue where "C0:Index 0098 allocated from pool 3" prints continuously in log with 12Gbps Enclosures and SATA drives (SCGCQ00937572) - Fixed an issue where firmware prematurely rejects ONFI flash module (SCGCQ00937617) - Fixed an issue where SafeID may change on repeated queries using StorCLI (SCGCQ00941577) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault when importing Virtual Drives with Pinned Cache (SCGCQ00949440) - Fixed an issue where Write-Back Virtual Drives are converted to Write-Through on system reboot or Online Controller Reset(SCGCQ00859720) - Fixed an issue where a Data TLB error may occur when firmware is upgraded or downgraded (SCGCQ00867065) - Fixed an issue where a Data TLB error may occur when aborting a host command (SCGCQ00874357) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault when running IO with Task Resets on JBODs (SCGCQ00877673) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 245 in file ../../raid/1078int.c" may occur while running IO with 64 Virtual Drives and removing drives belonging to CacheCade (SCGCQ00878587) - Fixed an issue where cache flush was occurring during Virtual Drive deletion (SCGCQ00878923) - Fixed an issue where IO dip is seen when deleting Virtual Drives (SCGCQ00879193) - Fixed an issue where a Data TLB error may occur when sending Target Reset on JBOD via out-of-band commands (SCGCQ00881919) - Fixed an issue where perTunerMode is not set correctly after a controller reset (SCGCQ00882897) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 2735 in file ../../ssd/ssd_cache_fw.c" may occur when error are injected repeatedly (SCGCQ00887019) - Fixed an issue where a rebuild cannot be started for a degraded CacheCade Virtual Drive after heavy IO (SCGCQ00887428) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 245 in file ../../raid/1078int.c" may occur with IOs on maximum Virtual Drives configured and Background Opertations are occurring (SCGCQ00890133) - Fixed an issue where Patrol Read doesn't resume after Consistency Check completes after a system reboot (SCGCQ00894344) - Fixed an issue where StorCLI throws an error when performing "/c0/vx show all" after a Full Initialization on RAID1 Virtual Drive with SSDs (SCGCQ00904899) - Fixed an issue where a firmware fault occurs when a copyback operation fails to start (SCGCQ00904905) - Fixed an issue where LUID is changed when importing a non-240VD configuration to a 240VD firmware (SCGCQ00907658) - Fixed an issue where a "MonTask" error may occur when under heavy JBOD IO and the JBOD IOs begin failing (SCGCQ00915078) - Fixed an issue where error "line 1279 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur on iMR firmware during boot (SCGCQ00915092) - Fixed an issue where controller reset occurs under stress with 240 Virtual Drives configured (SCGCQ00915398) - Fixed an issue where Online Firmware Update would fail due to driver reload issues (SCGCQ00915454) - Fixed an issue where a Data TLB error may occur during reconstrution operation when Target Resets are issued to JBODs (SCGCQ00921993) - Fixed an issue where "Core 0 exception" is seen when trying to import Foreign Configurations with Pinned Cache (SCGCQ00863880) - Fixed an issue where CTRL-R interface does not show correct port information when hotplugging enclosure paths (SCGCQ00866487) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault when an enclosure with an especially slow drive is present (SCGCQ00867120) - Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 1280 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur on out-of-band command timeout (SCGCQ00872875) - Fixed an issue where error "Assertion failure in ../../raid/cache.c at line 774" may occur after pulling out an enclosure cable (SCGCQ00878097) - Fixed an issue where write performance drops in RAID5, Write-Through, No Read-Ahead, Stripe Size 64, 1MB IO at queue depth 128/256 (SCGCQ00878414) - Fixed an issue where an imported 4K-drive RAID0 becomes Unconfigured Good on reboot (SCGCQ00895689) - Fixed an issue where Online Firmware Update fails with "not supported" message (SCGCQ00915073) - Fixed an issue where Logical Drive IO for FastPath-capable RAID0/RAID1 were not handled properly in the presence of a RAID5/RAID6 Write-Through volume running sequential write streams (SCGCQ00915409) - Fixed an issue where a CRC mistmatch and Invalid Log Event are surfaced when checking Controller Properties in parallel with a Learn Cycle (SCGCQ00919945) - Fixed an issue where performance drops are seen on writes to RAID1 FastPath volumes (SCGCQ00931895) - Fixed an issue where event messages reporting CacheCade Virtual Disk target ID and remaining CacheCade size are incorrect (SCGCQ00864019) - Fixed an issue where firmware faults when using an Online Controller Reset from StorCLI after having issued "supportResetNow" (SCGCQ00878150) - Fixed an issue where an "Exception in Core -0" error may occur on iMR firmware under VMWare (SCGCQ00904103) - Fixed an issue where "MsgAlloc: No free messages, poolIndex=4" may appear in logs while running IO on JBODs (SCGCQ00908982) - Fixed an issue where the TTY log dump is not persistent across multiple boots (SCGCQ00877100) - Fixed an issue where drives that return errors for all protocol commands may be retried indefinitely (SCGCQ00805369) - Fixed an issue where setting the Learn Cycle property of iBBU09 gives an i2C error (SCGCQ00837206) - Fixed an issue where driver may hang with LSI2008-based adapters (SCGCQ00843390) - Fixed an issue where device wait queue is not cleared when drive is no longer online (SCGCQ00878401) - Fixed an issue where Windows may BSOD on firmware upgrade when running driver 6.707.08.00 (SCGCQ00886272) - Fixed an issue where disableImmediateIO NVDATA value is not honored by firmware (SCGCQ00886666) - Fixed an issue where Foreign Configuration could be cleared even when Pinned Cache is present (SCGCQ00889209) - Fixed an issue where a Virtual Drive under Reconstruction may go Degraded if the drive being reconstructed is removed before the operation completes (SCGCQ00891282) - Fixed an issue where a "MonTask" error may occur after initiating a RAID Level Migration (SCGCQ00891288) - Fixed an issue where system hang may occur after aborting running Consistency Checks repeatedly (SCGCQ00895265) - Fixed an issue where a "MonTask" error may occur after creating 240 Virtual Drives and rebooting the server (SCGCQ00908121) - Fixed an issue where LUID is changed when importing a non-240VD configuration to 240VD-enabled controller (SCGCQ00908153) - Fixed an issue where a Virtual Drive may disappear on reboot if created with drives from a previously-deleted Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00914823) - Fixed an issue where device wait queue is not cleared if a drive is no longer online (SCGCQ00923279) - Fixed an issue where message "Found invalid event at fc4966ec" is printed in firmware log every 5 seconds (SCGCQ00931370, SCGCQ00979910) - Fixed an issue where firmware is unable to detect all Virtual Drive's "Degraded" status for partial Virtual Drives created on the same Physical Drives (SCGCQ00942380) - Fixed an issue where driver may panic and firmware may hang when medium errors are present (SCGCQ00954118) - Fixed an issue where firmware does not discard dirty cache after firmware update (SCGCQ00992657) - Fixed an issue where some Recoverable Errors were marked as Unrecoverable (SCGCQ01015699) - Fixed an issue where HII and Ctrl-R show an incorrect message when trying to import a 65th Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00803718) - Fixed an issue where Functional Level Reset (FLR) was not supported (SCGCQ00843936) - Fixed an issue where Write-through and Write-back cache policies can be changed via Windows Logical Disk Properties. (SCGCQ00883311) - Fixed an issue where many "LdDcmd ***** return pinned list 0" messages may be printed in firmware log (SCGCQ00895459) - Fixed an issue where an alert is repeated twice for Cancel Consistency Check on Virtual Drives (SCGCQ00900027) - Fixed an issue where error "Controller encountered fatal error and was reset" may occur under heavy IO and background operations (SCGCQ00905603) - Fixed an issue where CacheCade-related 240 Virtual Drive checks were not checking controller properties (SCGCQ00905809) - Fixed an issue where out-of-band applications may not display Show Configuration Summary when 240 Virtual Drives are created (SCGCQ00908237) - Fixed an issue where a RAID0 using 4k drives may not be visible after reboot (SCGCQ00999181) - Fixed an issue where firmware may not poll all temperature sensor channels every 5 seconds (SCGCQ00844152) - Fixed an issue where Hard Drive RAID0 and RAID10 performance at 1M stripe size is suboptimal between queue depths of 16 to 256 (SCGCQ00876154) - Fixed an issue where StorCLI will report Success when flashing an MR-only package on an iMR-only controller (SCGCQ00882149) - Fixed an issue where 'Fw initializing devices' may hang with specific failed drives (SCGCQ00884719) - Fixed an issue where controller may report cache size as "0" when no logical drives are present (SCGCQ00891273) - Fixed an issue where a Physical Disk may not go to Online state even after creating a Virtual Drive on it (SCGCQ00910741) - Fixed an issue where error "SAS core detected EEDP error in application tag" may occur (SCGCQ00936647) - Fixed an issue where "storcli /c0 show all" shows many Bad Block messages in the log (SCGCQ00892136) - Fixed an issue where firmware may log Controller Properties Changed events twice (SCGCQ00908238) - Fixed an issue where a Virtual Drive under Reconstruction may be set Degraded if the drive under reconstruction is removed (SCGCQ00922677) - Fixed an issue where firmware may enter fault state after system power cycle with an SSD drive (SCGCQ00835227) - Fixed an issue where firmware may fault and RSOD may occur when a Virtual Drive is deleted when a Reconstruction is in progress on a PI-enabled VD combined with a slow initialization on another Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00872263) - Fixed an issue where firmware doesn't report no SMART error when a Predictive-Failure Analysis (PFA) drive is present (SCGCQ00841772) - Fixed an issue where firmware may not detect inserted drives (SCGCQ00876142)
Enhancements: - Added support for restarting Patrol Reads after they are interrupted by a Consistency Check (SCGCQ00883176) - Added ability to enable and disable 1M IO support via controller property (SCGCQ00893029) - Added support for Task Management for JBOD/sysPDs (SCGCQ00855457) - Reduced Command Block latency during Background Operations (SCGCQ00865372) - Added ability to not moe Write-back Virtual Drives to Write-through when Pinned Cache is less than 50% of available buffers (SCGCQ00852502) - Updated iMR queue depth to 928 (SCGCQ00888862, SCGCQ00930846, SCGCQ00896497) - Disabled SATA HOQ support for iMR controllers (SCGCQ00942547) - Added Task Management support for JBOD/sysPD (SCGCQ00861819, SCGCQ00855457) - Re-enabled 1M IO support (SCGCQ00874200) - Added support for Event Reporting for SuperCap Health after Learn Cycles (SCGCQ00894455)
Version 24.12.0-0020 --------------------
Version 24.9.0-0029 -------------------
Version 24.9.0-0026 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence -------------------
Fixes: - Fixed an issue in iMR mode where "Controller encountered fatal error and was reset" errors can occur under heavy IOs and background operations (SCGCQ00894643) (RETAIN Tip H001154) - Fixed an issue where driver health protocol may report unhealthy if more than 64 VDs are configured (SCGCQ00830918) - Fixed an issue where VDs beyond 64 may not be reported in legacy OpROM pOST display list (SCGCQ00826174) - Fixed an issue where "StorCLI /cX add VDs detailed" menu provides incorrect syntax for R1E (SCGCQ00501437) - Fixed an issue where CLI "show all" command fails with error "Error! App exec failed in FW PCLIError! Internal" (SCGCQ00518543) - Fixed an issue where the dedicated hot spare option in HII may be grayed out for RAID1 under the profile based configuration menu (SCGCQ00873973) - Fixed an issue where HII drive management and enclosure management may report only port 4-7 connected when ports 0-3 and 4-7 are connected to the same expander (SCGCQ00870398) - Fixed an issue where HII may hang or multiple enclosure entries will be seen in enclosure eanagement form after repeated navigation (SCGCQ00878350) - Fixed an issue where a 15-character VD name is truncated to 14 characters (SCGCQ00854606) - Fixed an issue where profile-based VD creation menu doesn't explain each profile's drive selection criteria (SCGCQ00884229) - Fixed an issue where some overlap may be seen during legacy OpROM pOST when more than one controller is present and there are boot messages for the second controller (SCGCQ00866982) - Fixed an issue where MSM may display "The requested command has invalid arguments" when 'Schedule Consistency Check' is selected (SCGCQ00832908) - Fixed an issue where a controller may not be accessible through RAIDLink until the OS is up and running (SCGCQ00847001) - Fixed an issue where drive firmware on certain SED/FDE SATA SSDs could not be updated (SCGCQ00856977) - Fixed an issue where an error "MonTask: line 1272 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur while running IO in a virtual machine (SCGCQ00822403) - Fixed an issue where a JBOD PD may not be able to be converted to Unconfigured Good in Solaris (SCGCQ00834552) - Fixed an issue where an "Instruction TLB" error may occur when a StorCLI /cX set autopdcache=r0 or similar command is executed (SCGCQ00835586) - Fixed an issue where firmware may hang in multipath scenario when cable pull/push test is performed at the same time as an array property change is issued (SCGCQ00836496) - Fixed an issue where a secure erase on a SATA SSD in HII may fail or lead to a hang in HII (SCGCQ00841317) - Fixed an issue where the controller may reset in some situations with media errors and VD undergoing manual rebuild after drives are taken offline, under stress (SCGCQ00825126) - Fixed an issue where the 3x08 chip Errata ID - 2012-RC714 may lead to PCIE 3.0 hot reset non-compliance (SCGCQ00829129) - Fixed an issue where rebuild performance on RAID1 is always slower than other RAID configurations (SCGCQ00841359) - Fixed an issue where patrol read properties window won't show up in MSM (SCGCQ00797676) - Fixed an issue where an L2 unrecoverable cache error may be seen during patrol read properties modification when VDs are made offline (SCGCQ00847162) - Fixed an issue where a VD erase may not resume after reboot when a CacheCade VD is present (SCGCQ00851810) - Fixed an issue where controller boots to OS even when pinned cache is present and boot error handling is set to stop on error (SCGCQ00860503) - Fixed an issue where firmware cannot detect some newly-inserted drives (SCGCQ00860270) - Fixed an issue where "MonTask: line 1518 in file ../../raid/2108vI2o.c" may occur in conjunction with a VMWare Guest abrupt shutdown (SCGCQ00852670) - Fixed an issue where connector name field is displayed as port 4-7 when actually both ports 0-3 and 4-7 are connected (SCGCQ00868215) - Fixed an issue where "line 243 in file ../../raid/1078int.c" error may occur during rebuild (SCGCQ00856256) - Fixed an issue where no error message shown when there is a failure to disable SSD caching of an offline VD (SCGCQ00905310) - Fixed an issue where "1 JBOD(s) found on the host adapter" may appear in legacy OpROM post even though no JBODs are present (SCGCQ00882729) - Fixed an issue where firmware may halt with "line 245 in file ../../raid/1078int.c" in log under stress with maximum VDs and background operations (SCGCQ00890133) - Fixed an issue where the HII may report a different Battery/SuperCap status than MSM/StorCLI would (SCGCQ00879726) - Fixed an issue where the firmware may hang due to an "Illegal Instruction Exception" error (SCGCQ00850441) - Fixed an issue with less-than-expected performance of Write-Verify SCSI commands in RAID0 (SCGCQ00866261)
Enhancements: - Added more descriptive port information to include link width in PHYs (SCGCQ00854621)
Version 24.7.0-0056 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed issue where UNMAP or TRIM commands might fail on SSD in JBOD Mode (SCGCQ00853147) (RETAIN Tip H214381) - Fixed an issue where an iMR RAID configuration may fail to import to 12gbps MR (SCGCQ00833765)
Version 24.7.0-0052 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence ------------------- Fixes: Incorporated MegaRAID FW stack 6.6 Fixed an issue where a drive reporting itself as 0MB shows up as Unconfigured Good (SCGCQ00784319) Fixed an issue where the firmware might hang during error handling of sense code 0b/47/xx (SCGCQ00701744) Fixed an issue where some SSDs may cause the system to hang at POST (SCGCQ00595506) Fixed an issue where an iMR RAID config may fail to import to 12gbps MR (SCGCQ00833765) Fixed an issue where R0, R5 and R6 read bandwidth dropped abruptly at 256K block size with 24drive SATA SSD config (SCGCQ00609808) Fixed an issue where RAID10 performance is under-performing (SCGCQ00794773) Fixed an issue where in some cases the LSI chip would convert an incoming chip reset to a system reset (SCGCQ00664261) Fixed an issue where many pRdm/pRequest/pReply messages would appear in LSI firmware log (SCGCQ00752195) Fixed an issue where when a consistency check is aborted, the adapter may reset (SCGCQ00819811) Fixed an issue where Patrol read does not start and gives incorrect warning message (SCGCQ00728404) Fixed an issue where the controller may reset unexpectedly during error handling (SCGCQ00825126) Fixed an issue where StorCLI may report Enclosure Not Found (SCGCQ00843146) Fixed an issue where x880 nodes may report excessive 'SCL STUCK Low! While I2C Rx Receiving Data' in LSI firmware log (SCGCQ00728935) (Retain TIP H213891) Fixed an issue where the command timeout for FED (SED) drives is too short, resulting in 05/2C codes (SCGCQ00797355) Fixed an issue where bandwidth falls as queue depth increases on R5/R6 24/40 drive SAS HDD configs at 256k block size (SCGCQ00701768) Fixed an issue where some drives may get bad PI CRC even though data is correct resulting in drive failure (SCGCQ00819314) Fixed an issue where the firmware may exposed more than 240VDs to host even if host driver doesn't support that many (SCGCQ00829214) Fixed an issue where MSM may display an error message if 'Schedule Consistency Check' is selected (SCGCQ00832908) Blocked CacheCade deletion when multiple CacheCade volumes are associated with Virtual Drives, preventing data issues (SCGCQ00838953) (Retain TIP H214323) Fixed an issue where the MegaRAID POST may display "The native configuration is not supported by current firmware" (SCGCQ00812842) Fixed an issue where the EFI Driver Health Protocol will show Fail when more than 64VDs are configured (SCGCQ00830918) Fixed an issue where OS may BSOD when upgrading firmware on a controller the OS has booted from if Online Controller Reset is performed (SCGCQ00825725) Fixed an issue where controller wouldn't go to halt state after multibit ECC errors detected (SCGCQ00783186) Fixed an issue where Opal-compliant FDE (SED) drives were being marked as FDE/SED when they shouldn't be (SCGCQ00788250) Fixed an issue where correctable ECC error interrupts were being masked (SCGCQ00814997) Fixed an issue where reconstructed VDs were not being reflected in MSM until system reboot (SCGCQ00839018) Fixed an issue where controller commands may fail when an LD is deleted during reconstruction (SCGCQ00821693) Fixed an issue where firmware would go to MonTask when making VDs offline while a Rebuild is occurring under IO (SCGCQ00825775) Fixed an issue where commands to FDE (SED) drives may not respond within 500ms (SCGCQ00844445) Fixed an issue where the firmware may allow the OS to change VD cache settings (SCGCQ00844447) Fixed an issue where HDD/SSD microcode updates may report fail even though they succeeded (SCGCQ00553252) Fixed an issue where slot numbers may be wrong systems with 32 drive slots (SCGCQ00529592)
Features and Enhancements Improved Jetstress / Exchange latencies (SCGCQ00717161) Added support for Learn Cycle debug commands in firmware (SCGCQ00814991) Added ability to clear the MaintainPdFailHistory (SCGCQ00474559) Improved drive rebuild performance (SCGCQ00427581) Improved Cache Offload error handling on read from the flash interface (SCGCQ00524419) Improved average latency and max latency in Windows operating systems (SCGCQ00671670) Implemented power throttling (SCGCQ00457280) Improved load balancing on >2 drive R1 VD of SSDs (SCGCQ00593588) Added ability for firmware to report the temperature for all SAS/SATA HDD/SSD (SCGCQ00490822) Added support for communicating with multiple controllers over I2C (SCGCQ00485924) Added a retry of IO commands as LDIO if raid map sync is failed with MFI_STAT_CONFIG_SEQ_MISMATCH (SCGCQ00651680) Added support for Self-Encrypting Drives in JBOD mode (SCGCQ00399739) Improved accuracy of ROC temperature display (SCGCQ00575037) Increased range of priorities for background tasks, CC/PR/Rebuild/Migrate/BGI (SCGCQ00313882) Added support for 512e drives (SCGCQ00619363) Prevented a situation where there may be excessive overtemp warnings in the firmware log (SCGCQ00820067) Improved DDR3 signalling margin during heavy I/O workloads (SCGCQ00824711)
Version 24.2.1-0052 - Non-Critical ------------------- Enhancement(s): - Added a special handling for interactive password. - Implemented mechanism to allow system BIOS to put entries for iMR memory allocation into proper table. Fixes: - - Fixed an issue where boot message ‘cached data was lost,’ even when there was no battery present. - Fixed an issue where the ‘cli set securitykey=Lsi@12345’ command fails with error code 1001 and error message invalid key.resent. - Fixed an issue where foreign configurations fails to import maximum number of configurations. - Fixed simpleswap port mapping. - Fixed an issue where 'Cli show all' command fails with error msg 'Error! App exec failed in FW PCLIError! Internal.' - Fixed an issue where ‘Cli show all’ command fails with error message ‘Error! App exec failed in FW PCLIError! Internal.’ - Fixed an issue where Coherency bit was not enabled in SRAM TLBs.
Version 24.2.1-0045 - Non-Critical ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where cache offload failured with pinned cache on R5 VD. - Fixed an issue where using upper case characters in command 'cli set securitykey' fails with error code '1001' and error message 'invalid key.' - Fixed an issue where system would not boot into legacy mode. - Fixed an issue where default setting of VD doesn't reflect MFC's setting. - Fixed an issue where ‘Cli show all’ command fails with error msg ‘Error! App exec failed in FW PCLIError! Internal.’ - Fixed an where ServeRAID M5210 showed the wrong slot numbers in both MR and iMR, in both HII and MSM.
Version 24.2.1-0027 - Non-Critical ------------------- Enhancment(s): - Added support for ServeRAID M5200 Series 4GB Flash/RAID 5 Upgrade for IBM System x (47C8668) - Added event in firmware to indicate that an INIT operation was halted due to reboot or other failure Fixes: - Increase backplane support to 32 slots. - Enable 512E support. - Fixed an issue where system is not allocating memory correctly when MR and iMR are in the same configuration - Fixed an issue where the user is Unable to create a RAID10 through Ctrl R using 4k drives. - Fixed an issue where on a local key management (LKM) enabled controller, the user is asked to enter the security key to unlock and import a foreign drive, which is locked and has external key management (EKM) enabled. - Fixed an issue where switching between external key management (EKM) and Local Key Management (LKM) without rebooting results in the current secret key string becoming invalid/null. - Fixed an issue where cache memory size is listed as zero in controller Information. - Fixed an issue where re-keying a controller with External key management (EKM) enabled and rebooting the system results in a corrupted key ID and an error message "Unable to communicate with EKMS ..." is displayed. - Fixed an issue where performing an online firmware update or online controller reset (OCR) on a controller with External key management (EKM) enabled, results in all secured drives marked as foreign. - Fixed an issue where CacheCade volumes, which are not supported, could be created using 4K SSD's. - Fixed an issue where removing the last physical drive of arrays could result in a firmware fault. - Fixed an issue where MegaRAID Storage Manager does not show an option to create virtual drives when the first drive in the array is missing in a partial virtual drive where all drives are configured. - Fixed an issue where switching the security mode from external key management (EKM) to local key management (LKM) on iMR controller will result in a corrupted controller key. - Fixed an issue where performing a re-key operation in external key management (EKM) mode without doing a reboot, and then switching to local key management Mode(LKM) results in the Firmware logs showing that a drive security key was created but HII says the key is incorrect.
Version 24.0.2-0013 ------------------- -Initial release ibm_fw_sraidmr_5200-24_12_0-0024_windows_32-64_chg
ServeRAID 6GB SAS/SATA Controller Firmware Update
Adapters Supported: ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4481) ServeRAID M5110e SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x ServeRAID M5120 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4478) ServeRAID M5016 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (90Y4304) ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM Flex System (90Y4390) ServeRAID M5016 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (90Y4304)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 23.34.0-0009 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence -------------------- FW Package: 23.24.0-0009
HII: 03.17.14.02
UEFI Driver: 0x06110200
BIOS: 5.50.03.0
MR FW: 3.460.35-6104
iMR FW: 3.460.34-6103
Fixes:
- Fixed the potential of a data miscompare that was observed only at a vendor test facility under very heavy IO and abnormal practices (SCGCQ00995594, Port of SCGCQ00976904)
- Fixed an issue where error "Controller encountered fatal error and was reset" may occur under heavy IO and background operations (SCGCQ00894643)
- Fixed an issue where VMWare may crash when a Guest Operating System is powered off (SCGCQ00872121, Port of SCGCQ00854914)
- Fixed an issue where write-verify performance was lower than expected (SCGCQ00858151, SCGCQ00874193)
- Fixed an issue where "I2C 4 PID 10 SCL STUCK Low! while I2C Rx receiving data intStatus 00008000" may appear in firmware log (SCGCQ01007592)
- Fixed an issue where the Measured Voltage instead of Charging Voltage was displayed in event log (SCGCQ00876489)
- Fixed an issue where Supercap "Battery Not Present" error may occur after shutdown or reboot during a learn cycle (SCGCQ00917115)
- Fixed an issue where Write-through and Write-back cache policies can be changed via Windows Logical Disk Properties. (SCGCQ00856979)
- Fixed an issue where enclosures may go missing when connected in daisy-chain after multiple expander reset cycles (SCGCQ00840725, Port of SCGCQ00818569)
- Fixed an issue where MegaRAID Storage Mananger may display an error message if 'Schedule Consistency Check' is selected. (SCGCQ00852649, Port of SCGCQ00832908)
- Fixed an issue where Patrol Read Properties window does not pop up on MegaRAID Storage Manager (SCGCQ00862478, Port of SCGCQ00797676)
- Fixed an issue where MegaRAID Storage Manager shows messages with Error code 240 and no description (SCGCQ00970948, Port of SCGCQ00904466)
- Fixed an issue where Amber LED may turn on erroneously when an enclosure's slot numbers start with 0 but bay numbers start with 1 (SCGCQ01019622, Port of SCGCQ00903181)
- Fixed an issue where the Generic RAID1 profile option in HII is not greyed-out after creating 64 Virtual Drives (SCGCQ00826822, Port of SCGCQ00816137)
- Fixed an issue where firmware may hang until system is reset (SCGCQ00928869, Port of SCGCQ00923286)
- Fixed an issue where a Virtual Drive may disappear on reboot if it was created with drives from a previously-erased Virtual Drive (SCGCQ00937912, Port of SCGCQ00900237)
- Fixed an issue where Functional Level Reset was not supported (SCGCQ00854343, Port of SCGCQ00840253)
- Fixed an issue where an "L2 unrecoverable cache error" may occur when modifying Patrol read properties (SCGCQ00854668, Port of SCGCQ00847162)
- Fixed an issue where a Hot Spare disk may become Unconfigured Good on reboot (SCGCQ00862477, Port of SCGCQ00803341)
- Fixed an issue where SafeID may change on repeated queries using StorCLI (SCGCQ00949550, Port of SCGCQ00941577)
- Fixed an issue where error "MonTask: line 1272 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur while running IO in Virtual Machines (SCGCQ01016071, Port of SCGCQ00822403)
- Fixed an issue where incorrect connector information "connector: null x0" shows in MegaRAID Storage Manager (SCGCQ01016040, Port of SCGCQ00996578)
- Fixed an issue where a concurrent Consistency Check cannot be started after resetting adapter to factory defaults (SCGCQ00839437, Port of SCGCQ00838830)
- Fixed an issue where JBOD mode may be disabled if a Virtual Drives is offline (SCGCQ00871662, Port of SCGCQ00827731)
Enhancements:
- Added protection for clearing Foreign Configuration if preserved cache exists (SCGCQ00880783, Port of SCGCQ00842327)
- Enhanced cache restore operation for when restore data size is different than cache size (SCGCQ00860303, Port of SCGCQ00855038)
Version 23.34.0-0006 --------------------
Version 23.33.0-0044 --------------------
Version 23.33.0-0043 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence ----------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where hard drive slot amber LED not functioning correctly. - Fixed an issue in iMR mode where "Controller encountered fatal error and was reset" errors can occur under heavy IOs and background operations (SCGCQ00894643) (RETAIN Tip H001154) - Fixed an issue where BBU status says optimal but firmware logs indicate that the BBU has failed (SCGCQ00838052) (RETAIN Tip H214857) - Fixed an issue where importing a foreign configuration may fail after reconstruction on 4k sector drives (SCGCQ00830109) - Fixed an issue where the firmware may allow the OS to change VD cache settings (SCGCQ00842350) - Fixed an issue where MR firmware reports "no SMART" error when attaching a PFA drive (SCGCQ00839455) - Fixed an issue where the firmware may hang (enter MonTask) when a guest OS is powered on or off in VMWare (SCGCQ00854914) - Fixed an issue where setting the learn cycle property of iBBU09 gives an I2C error (SCGCQ00831315) - Fixed an issue where "Prepare for Removal" does not work on a PD when drive erase is in progress (SCGCQ00811219) - Fixed an issue where MSM displays "The requested command has invalid arguments" error message if 'Schedule Consistency Check' is selected (SCGCQ00852649) - Fixed an issue where cache memory size in iMR is not showing 0 (SCGCQ00838893) - Fixed an issue where an incorrect MFI_STAT_PD_TYPE_WRONG error is returned by the firmware when PDs with different block size are mixed (SCGCQ00840251) - Fixed an issue where the controller reports cache memory size as 0 when no logical drives are present (SCGCQ00837600) - Fixed an issue where concurrent consistency check cannot be started after issuing "setfactorydefaults" command (SCGCQ00839437) - Fixed an issue where uEFI may report LSI EFI driver "Unhealthy" or "Failed" when more than 64VDs are configured (SCGCQ00831006) - Fixed an issue where functional level reset was not properly showing as unsupported (SCGCQ00854343) - Fixed an issue where the legacy CTRL-H utility may report the wrong PCIe slot number (SCGCQ00799339) - Fixed an issue where the legacy OpROM may show an expander as a JBOD drive in POST (SCGCQ00809682) - Fixed an issue where an encrypted JBOD may be presented to the system in encrypted form even though password was entered incorrectly (SCGCQ00808086)
Enhancements: - Added ability to determine SuperCap revision ID when VPD is not programmed (SCGCQ00828990) - Added support for SES RQST_OK deassertion for customer proprietary JBOD SEP (SCGCQ00834321) - Added feature to enable support for detecting CPLD code version (SCGCQ00840631) - Added feature to enable drive fault LED to be lit when a known-bad drive is connected to the controller (SCGCQ00858142) - Added feature to turn on drive Fault LED when the controller detects a drive that was previously marked Bad (SCGCQ00858140)
Version 23.33.0-0018 - High Impact/High Probability of Occurrence ----------- Fixes: - Incorporated MegaRAID FW stack 5.13 - Fixed an issue where drive temperature cannot be displayed for a drive in Failed or Foreign state (SCGCQ00693959) - Fixed an issue where after creating an LD via StorCLI or MSM the firmware writes into saved power condition mode page (0x1a) of all PDs in the LD and enables their idle timers (SCGCQ00658701) - Fixed an issue where Patrol Read would sporadically correct the same defective LBA repeatedly (SCGCQ00729591) - Fixed an issue where importing a Foreign array onto a new controller may fail with "Cannot force emulate VD to 512E since enable512Esupport is false" error in firmware log (SCGCQ00721106) - Fixed an issue where the controller may enter MegaMon sporadically (SCGCQ00776409) - Fixed an issue where MSM may not report a Full Initialization Aborted error until system rebooted (SCGCQ00759100) - Fixed an issue where the firmware may allow the OS to change VD cache settings (SCGCQ00842350) - Fixed an issue where Link Speed may show UNKNOWN when attaching a 3G or 6G SATA drive (SCGCQ00803522) - Fixed an issue where StorLib may return 0x00ff (fail) code even though operation succeeds when creating a VD out of an existing drive group (SCGCQ00827685) - Fixed an issue where format process of SSD may take much longer than in previous firmware (SCGCQ00674388) - Fixed an issue where controller must have cleared config to enable 240VD unless existing config only included single-drive RAID0 VDs (SCGCQ00559643) - Fixed an issue where some commands would timeout with CDB=ff ff ff ff (SCGCQ00459760) - Fixed an issue where slot ordering in iMR mode might differ from slot numbering in MR mode (SCGCQ00559274) - Blocked CacheCade deletion when multiple CacheCade volumes are associated with Virtual Drives, preventing data issues (SCGCQ00830977) (RETAIN TIP H214323)
Features/enhancements: - Added support for 512e drives (SCGCQ00425363) Enhanced Event Log to include CVPM health details after every Learn Cycle to allow closer monitoring of CVPM health (SCGCQ00819877) - Implemented a retry for reads of CVPM data to avoid erroneous event 386 or 150 in the Event Log (SCGCQ00392439) - Added ability for firmware to report the temperature for all SAS/SATA HDD/SSD (SCGCQ00490819) - Implemented ability for firmware to read drive temperature immediately following SAS discovery (SCGCQ00602573) - Added ability to clear the MaintainPdFailHistory (SCGCQ00474559)
Version 23.29.0-0015 - Critical ------------------- Enhancement - Provide mechanism to disable PCIe backchannel training via SBR. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the ‘cli set securitykey=Lsi@12345’ command fails with error code 1001 and error message invalid key. - Fixed an issue where foreign configuration import could fail. - Fixed an issue where storcli.exe /c0 show all command repeatedly prints to termlog with respect to upgradekey presence. - Fixed an issue where boot message ‘cached data was lost,’ even when there was no battery present. - Fixed an issue where the order of the first 64 VDs in the POST is not the same sequence as returned from the firmware. - Fixed storCLI adpfwflash option crash and adpallinfo option failure. - Reduced the bootblock Init time, which effectively reduces the configuration retry time to approximately 700 mS.
Version 23.22.0-0024 - Non-Critical ------------------- Enhancement(s): - Display the Native Command Queuing (NCQ) enabled/disabled status of every SATA disk drive in the output of StorCLI and MegaCLI. - Added support for ServeRAID M5100 Series 2GB Flash/RAID 5. Fix(es): - Disable PI CRC checking when the drive is not initialized during a CC. - Increased the SuperCap learn time out value for 2GB TMM-B solution. - Fixed an issue for 2GB memory modules where SuperCap does not get connected to the controller and hence cache offload fails. - Fixed an issue where cache policy of virtual drives(VD) does not change to write through(WT) mode even after detecting a bad supercap. - Fixed an issue where a RAID configuration created with physical disks in powersave mode could be lost after rebooting the system. - Fixed an issue where an invalid frame sent during a PIO-mode SATA passthrough command results in resetting the drive. - Fixed an issue where the system is not allocating memory correctly when MR and iMR controllers are in the same system. - Fixed an issue where deep learn does not start immediately when the relative state of charge (RSOC) is just equal to 95%. - Fixed an issue where performing a re-key operation in external key management (EKM) mode without doing a reboot, and then switching to local key management Mode(LKM) results in the Firmware logs showing that a drive security key was created but HII says the key is incorrect. - Fixed an issue where on a local key management (LKM) enabled controller, the user is asked to enter the security key to unlock and import a foreign drive, which is locked and has external key management (EKM) enabled.
Version 23.16.0-0027 - Critical ------------------- Fix(es): - Addressed data exposure issue when using CacheCade - Fixed issue where Supercap shows 0 Capacitance - Fixed iBBU09 battery issue that caused a VD cache policy to remain in write-through mode after a manual relearn - Fixed iBBU09 battery issue that caused a VD cache policy to periodically toggle between write-back/write-through mode - The limits for iBBU09 battery charging were not updating properly in a learn cycle - Ensures a single supercap pack is not supported on 2GB memory module. - Resolves a firmware crash seen while doing continuous sas cable pulls. - Ensures OpROM loads even if segment address is 0xC0000. - Fixed an issue where the adapter is running iMR machine checking after requesting host memory. - Fixed an issue where HII does not allow the user to make use of the remaining free capacity to configure additional VD for R50/R10. - Fixed an issue where an HII: empty warning prompt is given when creating a CacheCade VD with forced writeback option. - Fixed and issue where Windows cannot install without a VGA device on board. - Fixed and issue in EFI WebBIOS were consistency check is still shown in progress after 1 PD is removed from a R1 array.
Version 23.16.0-0018 - Suggested ------------------- Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where the adapter is running iMR machine checking after requesting host memory. - Fixed an issue where HII does not allow the user to make use of the remaining free capacity to configure additional VD for R50/R10. - Fixed an issue where an HII: empty warning prompt is given when creating a CacheCade VD with forced writeback option. - Fixed and issue where Windows cannot install without a VGA device on board. - Fixed and issue in EFI WebBIOS were consistency check is still shown in progress after 1 PD is removed from a R1 array.
Version 23.12.0-0016 - Suggested ------------------- Fix(es): - Added isync to prevent speculative execution while memory is being allocated. - Delayed enablement of POM until AFTER valid memory range is provided by host system.
Version 23.12.0-0011 - Suggested ------------------- Enhancement(s): - Support for 512e and 4k SAS/SATA hard drives added - Implemented Limited Band Charging for iBBU09 (RETAIN tip H21631) - Changed BIOS check to determine if running in HAMR, in order to ensure nothing gets broken when user has an iButton which is not programmed. - Changed controller status for safe mode to show controller status as safe mode and disable debug message logging in serial port.
Fix(es): - Addressed an issue where deeply discharged Cache Vault Power Modules would be prematurely be marked as failed. - Fixed an issue where HII hangs when trying to enter configuration management while in safe mode. Changed the safe mode warning message as below: "Controller is running in safe mode. Safe mode is used for diagnostic purposes only. Limited operations such as Configuration Preview, Clear Configuration and View/Change Controller Properties are allowed in this mode. Other operations such as Create Configuration, Import and Clear Foreign Configurations are not allowed. To exit safe mode, correct the fault, and reboot your computer." - Fixed an issue where having more than three adapters results in a calculation error for the offset to store physical disk info for fourth adapter, due to BIOS not clearing upper byte of AX (that is AH which is containing some non zero value). - Fixed an issue where the Wrong spanned drive group size is displayed by WebBIOS (Ctrl-H).
Version 23.7.1-0010 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Fix an issue related to the where the TSOC (EEPROM) is not able to read or write from the firmware which will result in the message "Incompatible secondary iButton present." - Fix a HII broswer issue where Cachecade virtual drive can be selected as a boot device. - Fix a HII broswer issue where the user is unable to clear the controller configuration when there are no drives attached. - Fix an issue where the BIOS doesn't display the RAID level and VD size correctly at BIOS POST.
Version 23.7.1-0009 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where SoH is bad after a learn cycle but iBBUI shows good status. - Fixed an issue where hi-temp warning was not being displayed.
Version 23.7.0-0037 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Corrected differential signals for Phys 2 and 3 that caused slot numbers in simple swap configurations to be incorrect. - Fixed an issue when 'maintain PD failed history' is enabled, and a cable is removed while a drive is added, the drives state goes to optimal instead of foreign unconfigured bad. - Fixed a problem where a capacity change is reported after a rebuild completes on a Cache Cade volume. - Fixed a controller firmware hang when the recovery of a medium error takes to long. - Fixed an issue where the SATA BBM (Bad Block Manager) list was being corrupted. - Fixed an issue where FoD (Feature on Demand) Options were being lost because of errors while accessing the TSOC. - Fixed a problem where the controller firmware would crash and drives would go offline when a bad block entry was created during a check consistency operation. - Fixed a problem where drives were being marked unconfigured bad (foreign) on reboot. - Fixed problem where a member of a CacheCade volume did not get marked as foreign when the drive was pulled with 'maintain PD failed history' enabled. - Fixed a problem where during a rebuild, a former hot spare that was now in a state of unconfigured good, moved back to the state hot spare, which then automatically started a copyback operation, causing the rebuild to restart. - Fixed a problem where a controller fault occurred during a reboot while a physical device was in progress of a PD Erase.
Version 23.7.0-0029 - Suggested ------------------- Enhancements: - Added support for Cache Cade 2.1 - Added Support for PI Drives
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the firmware reports device initialization completion status to be greater than 100% at startup. - Fix an issue where when a secure foreign drive was present, VD creation fails because firmware becomes unresponsive - Added a check for the presence of PD before writing the data arms of a protected LD during BGI. - Fixed Firmware asserts in CacheMemAllocForPrebootApps() when memory was allocated twice by BIOS. - Fixed an issue with USB Cacheoffload restore fails after multiple power cycles onServeRAID M51xx controllers. - Fixed an issue where querying SMART / PFA Status returns "all zeros" in Sense Data. - Fixed an issue where the import of a config from MR to iMR resulted in a firmware crash. - Fixed an issue where iMR firmware crashed while creating 8/16/32 KB stripe size Lds. - Fixed background initialization watermark conversion to PD LBA. - Fixed write protected R1E data arms during initialization. - Fixed an issue where MR firmware crashed while discarding pinned cache. - Fixed an issue where a dirty LD dependency information of SSD pd has stale entries. - Corrected an issue during system booting from pinned cache, firmware goes to loop message BootMsgDcmd - Fixed an issue where a BGI was aborted and restarted, elapsed time was not reset. - Fixed an issue where the start ref for a shared cache line was not an indicator of the offset into the stripe. - Fixed an issue where the firmware hangs while running CC on a rebuilt R1 VD with SBBM. - Fixed an issue where the firmware was wrongly adding puncture entries. - Fixed an issue where rebuild was ran twice on a target drive with 100% full SBBM table. - Fixed an issue where the firmware was generating powersave change event when DS3 was not enabled, due to this application are not parsing the event. - Fixed an issue where recon from R0 to R1 using 3 TB drive causes firmware to report excessive unexpected sense events. - Fixed an issue, in which the bbuMode would revert to the factory default value of 5, when automatic learn cycle was enabled. - Fixed an issue where cache offload firmware reports unnecessary High Temp Event due to incorrect temp value. - Fixed an issue in which a Patrol Read may not start under certain conditions. - Fixed an issue where the firmware hits montask after discarding the cache when a snapshot VD was involved. - Fixed an issue where the firmware hangs during pin cache destage as dirty lines in that map never become zero. - Fixed an issue where CC fails to correct media error at 2TB location on 2 3TB SATA drives that support WU. - Fixed an issue where a new XML file was added to the nvdata, the buffer to hold the uncompressed nvdata overflowed. - Fixed an issue where an imported drive becomes unconfigured good when secure VD erase was running. - Fixed an issue where CC stops progressing on a R6 VD with media errors. - Fixed an issue where 3TB Hitachi HDD failed in immunity test (Electrostatic Noise test). - Fixed an issue where controller features are lost if RAID Key was not detected. - Fixed an issue where performance degraded in RAID 5 Sequential Writes due to command Out-of Ordering. - Fixed an issue where "Native configuration is no longer supported" message in post. - Fixed an issue where (DDR3) Initialization fails with fault 0x91a1 - initial DFIRL selected too low. - Fixed an issue where subsequent drives are dropped when all drives in the stagger spin up drives fails on boot sequence.
Version 23.2.1-0043 - Suggested ------------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where "Potential non-optimal configuration due to drive PD commissioned as emergency spare" alarm would trigger erroneously. - Fixed an issue where Copyback does not progress upon inserting drives. - Fixed an issue When allowMixInLD is Disabled, and causes Copyback Fails after Rebuild to Emergency Hot Spare. - Fixed an issue where the Firmware faults while flashing. - Fixed an issure where querying SMART / PFA Status to Return all zeros in Sense Data. - Fixed an issue where the Re-inserted Drives becomes Unconfigured_good causing auto rebuilds to fail to start.
Version 23.2.1-0033 ------------------- - Initial release ibm_fw_sraidmr_6gb-23_34_0-0009_windows_32-64_chg
=============================================================================== Emulex NIC Device Driver for Windows ===============================================================================
Device Driver Version: 10.4.255.23 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - OCe14000 with LRO enabled causes OS to reboot - Observing "IOCTL to firmware failed" in the Diagnostics tab after installing the Driver to the Virtual Function
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local OEM Sales Support for more information.
- There is no benefit from using NVGRE on more than one vNIC attached to the same physical port. As such, only one vSwitch should be attached to a physical port. Attaching more than one vSwitch to a physical port could cause a dramatic decrease in performance. This is a permanent limitation
Device Driver Version: 10.2.531.0 Supported On: Flex
Problems Fixed: - BSOD when booting to windows 2012 R2 with HyperV with 4x CN4054 in system - Driver reports too many VMQ resources
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local OEM Sales Support for more information.
- There is no benefit from using NVGRE on more than one vNIC attached to the same physical port. As such, only one vSwitch should be attached to a physical port. Attaching more than one vSwitch to a physical port could cause a dramatic decrease in performance. This is a permanent limitation
Device Driver Version: 10.2.413.1 Supported On: System x, BladeCenter and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Packet loss observed during affinity changes. During the change, a 'pause' occurs, packets will get dropped, bandwidth utilization will drop because of the stall, and overall performance will be inconsistent.
- When using multi-channel in a vSwitch environment, map one PF to the hyper-visor vSwitch and then use the other PF’s/vNICs for live migration network, FCoE/iSCSI, Management network and the like in order to get the best performance.
Incremental Interoperability: - Grantley based ITE
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local IBM Sales Support for more information.
- There is no benefit from using NVGRE on more than one vNIC attached to the same physical port. As such, only one vSwitch should be attached to a physical port. Attaching more than one vSwitch to a physical port could cause a dramatic decrease in performance. This is a permanent limitation
Device Driver Version: 10.2.370.18 Supported On: System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - Network connectivity is getting lost for VMQ interfaces during VMQ CPU affinity stress test
Incremental Interoperability: - None
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local IBM Sales Support for more information. - Packet loss observed during affinity changes. During the change, a 'pause' occurs, packets will get dropped, bandwidth utilization will drop because of the stall, and overall performance will be inconsistent. - When using multi-channel in a vSwitch environment, map one PF to the hyper-visor vSwitch and then use the other PF’s/vNICs for live migration network, FCoE/iSCSI, Management network and the like in order to get the best performance. - There is no benefit from using NVGRE on more than one vNIC attached to the same physical port. As such, only one vSwitch should be attached to a physical port. Attaching more than one vSwitch to a physical port could cause a dramatic decrease in performance.
Device Driver Version: 10.2.348.2 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - BSOD after running IO's using NVGRE offload for 16VM's, also affects VMQ and SRIOV - Option to enable/disable RSS not visible in NIC advanced properties - Network connectivity is getting lost for VMQ interfaces - Performance and Fairness for 16VM's is uneven on Windows 2012 R2
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local IBM Sales Support for more information - Packet loss observed during affinity changes. During the change, a 'pause' occurs, packets will get dropped, bandwidth utilization will drop because of the stall, and overall performance will be inconsistent. - When using multi-channel in a vSwitch environment, map one PF to the hyper-visor vSwitch and then use the other PF’s/vNICs for live migration network, FCoE/iSCSI, Management network and the lie in order to get the best performance. - There is no benefit from using NVGRE on more than one vNIC attached to the same physical port. As such, only one vSwitch should be attached to a physical port. Attaching more than one vSwitch to a physical port could cause a dramatic decrease in performance.
Device Driver Version: 10.2.261.11 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - When MAC learning is enabled, driver should not drop internally switched packets - Incorrect Port numbering in nic multichannel tab - No link down on UMC 0 bw min and max - BE3: very low throughput transmit on SR IOV Guest OS (netperf less than 100Mbps although 10Gb link) - BE3 Win2k12R2 Hyper v server crashed during the creation of virtual switch using the LACP teamed adapter - NIC Teaming (failover/failback) fails on HS23 LOM
Incremental Interoperability: - ARI (PCI-SIG specification) - RDMA over CEE (RoCE)
Known Issues: - RoCE support is limited to named applications. Contact your local IBM Sales Support for more information - When using VMQ with Windows Server 2012 or 2012R2, the user may experience VM connectivity loss, packet drops, system hangs, inability to shutdown VMs and possible system crashes on shutdown.
Device Driver Version: 10.0.718.26 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - VMQ driver option incorrectly available for 1Gb ports of BE3 - BE2 and BE3: Hitting Nic initialization failure after updating driver - Update custom property page display for BE3R - Windows NIC driver always reports initial link status as UP
Device Driver Version: 4.6.203.1 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - HyperV VM's tagged VLAN's did not get an IP Address - NIC Function Properties > Status for PCI Express Link Speed says Invalid Link Speed detected. - iSCSI ports of CNA card in ESXi 4.1u3 OCM GUI (vCenter plug in) is not getting displayed
Device Driver Version: 4.4.176.2 Supported On: IBM Flex
Device Driver Version: 4.2.390.6 Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - Cleaned up inf file - TOE Offload Fails when the same neighbor is added more than once
Incremental Interoperability: - Windows 2012
Known Issues: - Switch Independent Mode not supported in a HyperV environment - Default values vary between inbox and out of box drivers. For example: Configuration section - Wake On LAN - Inbox default is ‘Disabled’ – out-of-box default is ‘Enabled’ Performance section - Maximum Number of RSS Queues - Inbox default is ‘4’ - out-of-box default is ‘8’ - Virtual Machine Queues - Inbox default is ‘Disabled’ – out-of-box default is ‘Enabled’ You may select the button to reset all driver settings to defaults after any installation.
Device Driver Version: 4.1.370.0 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Incremental Interoperability: - Initial release for IBM Flex
Problems Fixed: - HS23 - Sleep Stress test failed with bugcheck C4 during driver verify - TOE with RSC enabled causes Network to go down - Augmented WOL Capabilities - Driver parameter query failures - BSOD 9F during shutdown if device stops responding - RSS queues may change port during MPRestart and MPPause
Device Driver Version: 4.1.334.25 Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - Emulex: Large Receive Offload support needed in Windows NIC driver - Win WoL: Need to report WoL based on ARM reported capabilities - update the driver strings for existing cards - RSS code may access PerMessage beyond end of array - 16 queue RSS for BE3 on Windows 2008 R2 - fix unverified mode of occfg to allow customer workarounds - 16 queue RSS lockup if SRIOV enabled in registry - Standard Property Page for 1 port Windows Azure card - Timeout RQ flush to avoid bugcheck during shutdown - Change receive buffer alignment to use Windows 2008 R2 TCPIP fast path - Emulex: BSOD - Replacing BE3 card with a BE2 card after installation of new kit driver and firmware on Win 2k3 SP2 R2x64 (vNIC enabled IBM machine) - be2nd62.inf failed ChkInf - VMQ registry keys displayed in Windows 2008 - be_function_prepare_nonembedded_ioctl overwrites version field - autoi reboot fails on Win2K8 x64 when verifier enabled - PCI ID: Updates for Endeavor 2 for IBM- PCI IDs Rev 1.22 - Emulex NIC driver causes BSoD during shutdown whenever disable firewall or join domain network - Sleep Stress test failed with bugcheck C4 during driver verify - Disable TOE by default for IBM - BSOD 9F during shutdown if device stops responding
Qlogci iSCSI Adapter STOR Miniport Driver for Windows Release Notes Package version 2.1.6.10 August 24, 2014
This software license applies only to QLogic customers. QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
1. Version 2. Changes/Fixes/Enhancements 3. Known Issues 4. History 5. Additional Information 6. Embedded Firmware Details 7. Trademarks 8. Notices 9. Contacting Support
1. Version
These release notes describe the changes, fixes, known issues, and release details that apply to iSCSI driver, version 2.1.6.10.
NOTE: Before installing this driver, you must update the Microsoft STOR miniport driver.
The FC is supported with Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2.
2. Changes / Fixes / Enhancements
2.1.6.10 QL - 04/24/14 * version number update 2.1.6.10A26 QL - 02/26/14 * Changed the code to follow helga idc spec 0_2, the lowest function number driver instance takes precedence when multiple functions of the same protocol are active during reset-recovery. Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Will check if is the lowest function before to own the reset-recovery. 2.1.6.10A25 QL - 02/21/14 * ER114595: iSCSI Minidump extracted from QConvergeConsole CLI generates 100mb+ file. Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Will return the actual size of minidump captured memory to application. * Changed the code to follow helga minidump spec v0.94, the driver should keep the first firmware dump collected. Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Will not overwrite the holding md buffer, until application retrieved it. 2.1.6.10A23 QL - 01/16/14 * ER114878: Firmware Dump state should be honored by the iSCSI driver once the state has been changed successfully Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is changed to support the minidump state. * ER114598: Adapter reset while enabling/disabling VLAN and Large Frames Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to avoid sending down a session close for a already disconnected session. 2.1.6.10A22 QL - 11/14/13 * ER113419: Adapter reset when iSCSI disable enable is done after peg halt loop Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Fixed a bug in Interrupt enable. 2.1.6.10A20 QL - 11/13/13 * Change the code for GET_MANAGEMENT_DATA to follow the spec Scope: 8200 Series adapters. 2.1.6.10A19 QL - 10/23/13 * Changed the sequence of tasks for stop adapter Scope: 8200 Series adapters. 2.1.6.10A18 QL - 10/17/13 * ER112269: "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort3" message seen in event log on add/remove isns. Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Fixed a bug in Link AEN processing. 2.1.6.10A17 QL - 10/11/13 * ER112232: Helga adapter has been reset when iSCSI Driver is loaded. Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Fixed a bug in Quiscent supporting. 2.1.6.10A16 QL - 9/19/13 * ER111214: System BSoD when FCoE external loopback is run with loopback cable connected Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is changed to limit the number of link status checking mailbox command. * ER111448: Initiator port does not list the unbinded targets after logging in to it's iSNS targets Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Fixed driver bug, which could cause a iSNS protocol error when it receive a SCN frame while doing targets scanning. 2.1.6.10A15 QL - 8/28/13 * Mini-dump creation ioctl added Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is changed to support the ioctl INT_CC_HBA_CMD_MINIDUMP. * Implemented fast devices scanning logic in initialization Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is changed to use the device index information from the FW to scan for the next configured device instead of blindly scanning all devices. This will improve the device scanning time during initialization. 2.1.6.10A13 QL - 8/05/13 * ER109767: Continuous adapter reset while assigning static IP to the iSCSI adapter ports Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to avoid sending down a session close for a already disconnected session. 2.1.6.10A11 QL - 7/11/13 * fixed a bug for whql crash dump Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver was using too much uncached memory as a crash dump driver, changed the driver to avoid allocate unnecessary uncached memory in crash dump mode. 2.1.6.10A10 QL - 7/08/13 * send down stopfw for reset Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to send down stopfw for reset, when detected fw alive count updating stopped, but not yet continued 3 or 5 seconds. 2.1.6.10A6 QL - 5/29/13 * ioctl EXT_CC_GET_AEN could go through even adapter is not in ready state Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to allow the EXT_CC_GET_AEN go through even adapter is not in ready state. * added Full 64 bit addressing support Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to support full 64bits support. * deleted the system log for need reset detected Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to avoid the unnecessary log event. * set md mask default to be 0x1 Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to set the minidump mask to be 0x1 as default. * added a force md ioctl Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Added a ioctl to allow an application to force a minidump. 2.1.6.10A5 QL - 5/16/13 * set the md to be disabled as default Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to set the minidump to be disabled as default. 2.1.6.10A4 QL - 4/24/13 * fixed a scsi pass through ioctl bug Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is treating the SCSI pass through IOCTL as a normal IO command thus causing the system to panic when accessing the buffer address at a higher priority. The change is to check the IOCTL command flag correctly and handle it via the IOCTL path. 2.1.6.10A3 QL - 4/22/13 * Implemented fast devices scanning logic Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Driver is changed to use the device index information from the FW to scan for the next configured device instead of blindly scanning all devices. This will improve the device scanning time during recovery. * Added a registry key "mrdt" to control the max response queue dpc processing time Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Changed the driver to limit the respones queue processing time in the DPC routine. * Added a registry key "qd" to control the queue depth Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Added queue depth address configuration. 2.1.6.10A2 QL - 3/25/13 * Added ip registry key Scope: 8200 Series adapters. Resolution: Added IP address configuration.
3. Known Issues
N/A
4. History
N/A
5. Additional Information
None
6. Embedded Firmware Details
This section provides information for the firmware embedded in the driver:
* Not available
7. Trademarks
QLogic, the QLogic logo, QLA, SANbox, SANsurfer, and SANblade are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation.
SANtrack and SAN Express are trademarks of QLogic Corporation.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
8. Notices
Information furnished in this document is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications described in this document for any of these products are only for illustrative purposes. QLogic Corporation makes no representation nor warranty that such applications are suitable for the specified use without further testing or modification. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.
9. Contacting Support
Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic Technical Support can be reached by the following methods:
North America Contact Information
Email: support@qlogic.com
Phone: (952) 932-4040
Web: http://support.qlogic.com
Support contact information for other regions of the world is available at the QLogic website: http://support.qlogic.com
(c) Copyright 2014. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic logo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. qlgc_dd_iscsi_2_1_6_10_windows_32-64_chg
Matrox G200eR (Renesas) Display Only Driver for Windows Server 2012 R2
Rev. 4.01.01.005 - Compiled using Visual Studio 2012 RC. - Using the Release Preview SDK/WDK Build 8400.
KNOWN ISSUES ------------ - None
HISTORY ------- Rev. 4.00.01.003 - Beta version mtrox_dd_video_4_01_01_005_winsrvr_64_chg
QLogic 10GbE CNA Network (NDIS) Miniport Driver for Windows Version 5.3.25.0425.a Release Notes 01/28/2015
This software license applies only to QLogic customers. QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents 1. Version 2. Changes/Fixes/Enhancements 3. Known Issues 4. Additional Information 5. History 6. Trademarks 7. Notices 8. Contacting Support 9. Notices 10. Contacting Support
1. Version
These release notes is the release that apply to 10GbE CNA Network (NDIS) miniport driver for Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 for version 5.3.25.0425.
This 5.3.25.0425.a release is for Microsoft MSI packaging update for Windows 2008 R2 update issue.
2. Changes/Fixes/Enhancements
The following changes were made to driver version 5.3.25.0425.
* Add feature: Generate firmware core dump for Hilda device, and attach it to kernel memory dump when system bug checked. * [ER116079] Zero minimum and maximum bandwidth % is allowed on partitioned function. Resolution: Changed minimum bandwidth % to 1. * [ER112013] Incorrect error message while adding partitioned to LACP team. Resolution: Added new error message. * [ER131945] VF driver crashes on installation. Resolution: Added checks to avoid accessing bad memory. * [ER114642] [MSFT Bug] Team creation failure on Win2k12R2 Resolution: Added Microsoft suggested solution to get correct interface index. * [ER111036] BSOD on launching QCCCLI after induced firmware hang and health monitoring is disabled. Resolution: Corrected handling of custom partitioning related OIDs.
3. Known Issues
* None
4. Additional Information
* None
5. History
version 5.3.20.0208
* [ER113416] LRO stops working after changing MTU multiple times while traffic is running. Resolution: Corrected calculation of LRO session count. * [ER113229] VLAN addition fails on team after selecting function 1 as preferred primary. Resolution: Corrected bind parameters used to create virtual. * [ER115371] Personality change fails through NPM tab for a single port card. Resolution: Unwanted validation removed.
version 5.3.16.0107
* [ER113736] QLogic management service log file is not getting cleaned from system. Resolution: Removed log file generation for release build. * [ER114734] Ping between VMs not working when vSwitch created from 2 SILB teams are assigned to VM. Resolution: Fixed OID return processing. * [ER112407] VM-VM traffic on VMNIC over teams with NPAR Resolution: Set learned MAC filters correctly upon switch over. * [ER114660] Wrong PCI information shown in Teaming Tab Resolution: Corrected bus speed display.
version 5.3.12.0925
* [ER114653] Remove obsolete device Id's. Resolution: Modified configuration file to remove obsolete device support. * [ER113992] NPAR tab fails to show information. Resolution: Used locale independent string operations. * [ER114086] Memory leak in mac learning service application. Resolution: Resource are released when not in use. * [ER113933] Intermediate ping drop seen while running e-switch ping Resolution: Corrected VLAN id learning.
version 5.3.11.0820
* [ER109812] LSO V1 parameter name is not clearly visible on W2K12 OS Resolution: Reduced string length to make LSO V1 parameter name clearly visible * [ER111401] SRIOV: Windows VF - PVID functionality not working on Hilda Resolution: Fixed inline VLAN tagging and MAC filter programming for VF - PVID functionality * [ER109211] Multitenancy feature support. Resolution: The following behaviour has changed from the previous release: 1. Encapsulated ICMP and UDP packets are now gracefully failed if stack requests an offload. (This change would stay until we hear back from Microsoft on bugs: 486232, 483965) 2. By default Encapsulation offload will be disabled on Win2012. (This change will stay until Microsoft resolves HCK bugs: 488699, 488682) 3. By default Encapsulation offload would not be supported on Win2012 R2. (This change will stay until Microsoft resolves all Win2012 R2 issues) 4. Encapsulation offload is now marked as Not Supported if NPAR is in configuration. * [ER109865] SRIOV - PF reporting error on request from VF for configuring guest vlan after firmware reset. Resolution: As part of reset recovery, do not query the ACL and re-configure the VLAN * [ER110583] Driver fail to load when load unload is run on NIC interfaces and FCOE driver is loaded. Resolution: Made 8300 (Hilda) specific changes to handle cases where FCoE driver is participating in IDC during NIC driver unload. * [ER108280] Driver should make way for a new dump to be created once the user has retrieved a previously created dump. Resolution: Cleared state flag after retrieving the minidump
version 5.3.10.0808
* [ER110279] LSO statistics don’t get updated for NVGRE traffic. Resolution: Corrected LSO counters increment for NVGRE traffic. * [ER110302] E-switch traffic doesn't work for legacy VMNICs on W2K12-R2 HyperV. Resolution: MAC learning service has been updated to use correct WMI classes for WS2012-R2. * [ER110369] System crash in HyperV environment when OS doesn’t allocate adequate number of MSIX interrupts. Resolution: Corrected handling of insufficient MSIX interrupts condition in the driver. * [ER110337] Soft reset failures results in driver unload intermittently. Resolution: Corrected soft reset recovery handling in the driver.
version 5.3.9.0801
* [ER109611]: QInstaller entry persists in Control Panel even after uninstallation of driver installed through Mini-installer. Resolution: Fixed bug in code which prevented the QInstaller entry from being cleaned up. * [ER109937]: Buffer overrun in teaming configuration dll. Resolution: Added validation to avoid buffer overrun. * [ER109211]: Multitenancy egress support not complete. Resolution: Added support for stateless offloads on NVGRE packets.
version 5.3.8.0718
* [ER108978]: Less number of VMQs get created for an exported NIC function assigned to 1 VM and 8 synthetic vNIC. Resolution: Report correct max number of VMQs to NDIS. * [ER108772]: MMC hangs when NIC Partitioning tab is opened from two interfaces. Resolution: Removed deadlock on reading flash from multiple pages. * [ER109633]: System BSOD while adding/removing teaming driver. Resolution: Corrected memory copy in driver which was going beyond page boundary. * [ER108547]: Adapter reset when NIC+iSCSI drivers are reverted back to MSIX interrupt mode from legacy. Resolution: Fixed control patch command and added marking/unmasking while using legacy mode interrupt.
version 5.3.7.0714
* [ER106100]: QLE8262: Data corruption seen while running Sanity test on 8 ports. Resolution: Removed Tx health monitoring mechanism till the delayed DPC scheduling issue is resolved by Microsoft. * [ER107254]: MSIx resource issue. Driver gets yellow banged. Resolution: Handled resource list properly while moving resources away. The variable-length array inside the structure is kept in accordance with the newly reduced number of resources in the list.
* [ER109211]: Multitenancy Egress support. Resolution: Added Egress support for Multitenancy.
version 5.3.6.0707
* [ER108676]: Large VMQ Number Exceeded IntrSrc/IntrObj. Resolution: Added interrupt source availability check. * [ER104913]: NIC driver unloads after resetting. Resolution: Added lagged DPC execution detection and skipped the mailbox hung check accordingly. * [ER108486]: Teaming driver crashed Resolution: Add the boundary check and stop trashing adjacent memory * [ER108351]: Link speed incorrect format when max bandwidth is set less than 10% Resolution: Used floating format specifier with 1 digit precision.
version 5.3.5.0610.
* [ER106058]: NIC adapter's information tab displaying incorrect data. Resolution: Fixed inaccurate OID codes. * [ER103090]: Added support to get card temperature. Resolution: Card temperature is displayed on device property page.
version 5.1.18.0312.
* [ER106790]: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V (x64) experiences a BSOD if NIC function enabled in the server profile. Resolution: Corrected an illegal write access to BAR0 Offset 0. * [ER107161]: Low throughput and high number of pause-frame with network stress on VMQ in HyperV environment on WS2012. Resolution: Low throughput issue has been addressed by correctly handling of VMQ traffic interrupt masking/unmasking in the WS2012 driver. * [ER105667]: Quinlan IPv6 I/O very slow when TCP Offload Checksum IPv6 is disabled. Resolution: Disabled LRO when IPv6 checksum is disabled.
version 5.1.18.0312
* Added support for 8300-series controllers with SR-IOV support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 HyperV, and Windows Server 2012 VF driver for VMWare ESX.
6. Trademarks
QLogic, the QLogic logo, QLA, SANbox, SANsurfer, and SANblade are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation.
SANtrack and SAN Express are trademarks of QLogic Corporation.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
7. Notices
Information furnished in this document is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications described in this document for any of these products are only for illustrative purposes. QLogic Corporation makes no representation nor warranty that such applications are suitable for the specified use without further testing or modification. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.
8. Contacting Support
Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic Technical Support can be reached by the following methods:
Web: http://support.qlogic.com
Email: support@qlogic.com
Support contact information for other regions of the world is available at the QLogic website: http://support.qlogic.com
Copyright 2014. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic logo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. qlgc_dd_cna_5_3_25_0425_a_windows_32-64_chg
See readme for a list of changes qlgc_fw_nic_7_12b_4_2e_windows_32-64_chg
QLogic 16 Gb Fibre Channel Adapter MultiFlash Update for System x QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
Version 4.70.07 03/29/2015
* Flash Image Version 4.70.07
HLD47007.BIN contains: ---------------------- * FC Bootcode (2600 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 3.29 uEFI version 6.21 Signed * FC Firmware - v7.05.04 * Pegtune - v5.110.10 * CRBnit - v5.14.15
The following changes have been made to the BIOS for FC-FCoE Adapters between versions 3.02 and 3.27.
* Added code to not configure any targets when FA Boot * LUN enabled but FA BOOT LUN not found. ER133769. * Added code to allow FA Boot LUN when FA WWPN enabled * Added options in CTRL-Q utility to enable FA WWPN * and FA BOOT LUN. * Fix minor cosmetic error in display of Fcode/EFI * versions for show port CLP.(ER133294) * Added support FA BOOT LUN * Added 8G support for show port clp * Changed VLAN ID max value from 4095 to 4094. * Removed spinup option from CTRL-Q. * Changed CTRL-Q to allow max value for Login Retry, * Port Down Retry, Link Down Count of 65535.ER(116099) * Removed Helga support * Added support for show port clp. * Remove EV boot order option from OEM BIOS. * Added CTRl_Q option to set VLAN_ID for FCoE HBA's(ER110593). * Changed Banner to display 'FCoE' for Schultz (ER110790). * Added additional time to login target when called * after EFI driver unloads. (ER110755.ER110855) * Added support for Helga. * Added code to display message when 64 bit address is detected. * Added support for Execution Throttle for P3P (ER106372) * Added code to not display connection options for Hilda Trinity adapter. * Checked for invalid LUN in CTRL-Q scan devices. * Fixed bug in CTRL_Q utility that could cause some cosmetic display issues. * Added Hilda CLP _hss support. * Configured ISP24xx if on slot 0. * Added "QLogic" to PnP productid (ER104424) * Checked for 4G flag in NVRAM for Hilda FC.(ER104714) * Fixed bug with CTRL-Q Loopback Utility (ER100729). * Added code to check/program Feature Config checksum. * Fixed bug that could cause buffer overrun in CTRL-Q with Report Lun command (ER100294). * Added check for PCI address change when updating option card data structure. * Changed code to use 32 bit pointer to allocate/deallocate EBDA memory. * Added code to check/program Feature Config checksum. * Fixed cosmetic issue in displaying data rate in CTRL-Q * Changed text for Hilda External loopback (ER98690). * Fixed display issue with CTRL-Q Diskutility(ER98727) * Fixed Lun select issue with CTRL-Q (ER98675). * Fixed bug in displaying selectable boot lun (ER98226) * Removed 4G data rate option for OEM adapter (ER98228) * Limited leading '0's in CTRL-Q menu (ER98389). * Set 'Aggressive Cooling' flag for OCSD. * Enabled Personality Change option. * Fixed issue with not restoring defaults on port 1 (ER 97619) * Fixed issue with serdes data saved incorrectly. (ER 97654) * Added code to limit Report Lun List size to 256 luns * Added check for 0 lun count when selecting device (ER 97385) * Disabled Personality Change option in CTRL-Q. * Fixed bug with WWNN handling for MCTP.(ER 96920) * Added check for Set MD2 set to 0 (restore defaults) (ER96912) * Added code to reset Port Config after Internal loopback test for Hilda(FCoE). * Added support for 16 bit lun (er96090). * Add support for Set MD2 CLP string. * Added code to issue Load Flash FW (3) MB command for Hilda as part ISP start sequence. (ER 94035). * Fixed code to prevent async event from causing BIOS to hang when scanning for devices (er94371). * Fixed code to disable ALT+1 Hotkey (er92844) . * Fixed CTRL-Q code mailbox timeout (er92957). * Added warning message in Personality change screen. * Updated BIOS to version 3.12 of non-hilda BIOS * Removed check for Virtual Address on Cold Boot. * Changed code to check for signature aaaaaaaah before updating virtual mac address. * Changed code to ignore soft boot signature aaaaaaaah * Added code to save device number in OCSD. * Added code to read cold boot register signature to determine when BIOS should update/restore virtual Mac address. * Fixed bug where retry count was not always being updated. * Added code to support ECHO loopback command. * Added support NCSI Flex Address.
*****************************************
* Flash Image Version 3.20.09
HLD32009.BIN contains: ---------------------- * FC Bootcode (2600 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 3.24 uEFI version 6.20 * FC Firmware - v7.02.00
* QLflash version 4.1.0.5
Change History
These changes describe the changes, fixes, known issues, and release details that apply to the FC-FCoE BIOS version 3.24.
Version 3.24 * Added code to display message when 64 bit address is detected. * Added support for Execution Throttle for P3P (ER106372) * Added code to not display connection options for Hilda Trinity adapter. * Checked for invalid LUN in CTRL-Q scan devices. * Fixed bug in CTRL_Q utility that could cause some cosmetic display issues. * Added Hilda CLP _hss support. * Configured ISP24xx if on slot 0. * Added "QLogic" to PnP productid (ER104424) * Checked for 4G flag in NVRAM for Hilda FC.(ER104714)
HLD32006.BIN contains: ---------------------- * FC Bootcode (2600 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 3.24 uEFI version 6.17 * FC Firmware - v7.02.00
* Changed Banner to display 'FCoE' for Schultz (ER110790). * Updated to get PN & Card SKU dynamically from I2C VPD for AIM (ER116141) * Updated to get PN & Card SKU dynamically from I2C VPD for AIM (ER116141) * Updated MTU size and AIM version references as per revised requirement. (ER113361) * Updated AIM config strings as per revised requirements. (ER113361) * Updated AIM support as per revised requirements (ER113361) * Added fix for boot settings persistency issue in BOFM supported legacy BIOS (ER112641) * Added support for Lenovo AIM [ER113361] * Added fix to persist user changes made on static forms [ER112639] * Added feature to dynamically list targets in HII [ER105725]
Version 3.20.03 Date: 10/01/2013 BIOS 3.0 version 3.24 uEFI version 6.10 FC Firmware - v7.01.00
* Added additional time to login target when called * after EFI driver unloads. (ER110755.ER110855) * Added code to display message when 64 bit address detected. * Added support for Execution Throttle for P3P (ER106372) * Check for invalid LUN in CTRL-Q scan devices. * Fixed bug in CTRL_Q utility that could cause some cosmetic display issues. * Configure ISP24xx if on slot 0. * Added "QLogic" to PnP productid (ER104424) * Fixed bug with CTRL-Q Loopback Utility (ER100729). * Added code to check/program Feature Config checksum. * Fix bug that could cause buffer overrun in CTRL-Q with Report Lun command (ER100294). * Added check for PCI address change when updating option card data structure. * Changed code to use 32 bit pointer to allocate/deallocate EBDA memory. * Added code to check/program Feature Config checksum. * Fixed cosmetic issue in displaying data rate in CTRL-Q * Fixed display issue with CTRL-Q Diskutility(ER98727) * Fixed Lun select issue with CTRL-Q (ER98675). * Fixed bug in displaying selectable boot lun (ER98226) * Removed 4G data rate option for OEM adapter (ER98228) * Limit leading '0's in CTRL-Q menu (ER98389). * Set 'Aggressive Cooling' flag for OCSD. * Enabled Personality Change option. * Fixed issue with not restoring defaults on port 1 (ER 97619) * Fixed issue with serdes data saved incorrectly. (ER 97654) * Added code to limit Report Lun List size to 256 luns * Added check for 0 lun count when selecting device (ER 97385) * Disable Personality Change option in CTRL-Q. * Fixed bug with WWNN handling for MCTP.(ER 96920) * Added check for Set MD2 set to 0 (restore defaults) (ER96912) * Added code to reset Port Config after Internal loopback test(FCoE). * Added support for 16 bit lun (er96090). * Add support for Set MD2 CLP string. * Added code to issue Load Flash FW (3) MB command as part ISP start sequence. (ER 94035). * Fixed code to prevent async event from causing BIOS to hang when scanning for devices (er94371). * Fix code to disable ALT+1 Hotkey (er92844) . * Fixed CTRL-Q code mailbox timeout (er92957). * Added warning message in Personality change screen. * Updated BIOS to version 3.12 of non-hilda BIOS * Removed check for Virtual Address on Cold Boot. * Changed code to check for signature aaaaaaaah before updating virtual mac address. * Changed code to ignore soft boot signature aaaaaaaah * Added code to save device number in OCSD. * Added code to read cold boot register signature to determine when BIOS should update/restore virtual Mac address. * Fixed bug where retry count was not always being updated. * Added code to support ECHO lopback command. * Added support NCSI Flex Address.
Version 3.20.00 Date: 8/30/2013 BIOS 3.0 version 3.22 uEFI version 5.27 FC Firmware - v7.00.01
- Added code to display message when 64 bit address detected. - Added support for Execution Throttle for P3P (ER106372) - Added code to not display connection options for Hilda Trinity adapter. - Check for invalid LUN in CTRL-Q scan devices. - Fixed bug in CTRL_Q utility that could cause some cosmetic display issues. - Add Hilda CLP _hss support. - Configure ISP24xx if on slot 0. - Added "QLogic" to PnP productid (ER104424) - Check for 4G flag in NVRAM for Hilda FC.(ER104714) - Fixed bug with CTRL-Q Loopback Utility (ER100729). - Added code to check/program Feature Config checksum. - Fix bug that could cause buffer overrun in CTRL-Q with Report Lun command (ER100294).
Firmware Version: 10.4.303.14 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - Improved handling of ASU/UCM deployed configurations.
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products - Lenovo xHMC support for inventory management - Mixed and Concurrent Mode storage (refer to documentation at Emulex.com for more information on this functionality). - 16 total pf's per ASIC in UMC (vNIC2) Mode. Was previously limited to 8 pf's per ASIC.
Known Issues: - UFP mode and concurrent personality are not supported at this time. This will be resolved in the next release (175594, 176654)
- Server hangs at "Scan for Fibre Devices", when port disable/enable performed on the Brocade Converged 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter. Do not force the link down after POST has completed and then attempt a discovery of the SAN. If you do a reboot is needed.(159125)
- To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159505)
- Intermittently, 255 vPorts can not be created successfully in Windows with the error "ERROR: <127>: Not enough HBA or fabric resources. VPort not created!". There is no known workaround other than to reduce the number of configured vPorts.(155807)
- Target login will fail if you dynamically reconfigure the SAN after POST has executed. If you do, then reboot the system.(159121)
- IFM Boot target is consumed on a particular port even though the target is not accessible to that port. IFM/BOFM boot target configuration is not supported. This limitation has existed for several code releases and we are now documenting it here.(159226)
- After making changes to any options in the sub-menus under 'controller configuration' in the Emulex UEFI NIC configuration utility and escaping to the prior menu, there is no prompt to save the changes. Be sure to select 'Save' before exiting the configuration menu. Applies to some legacy rack servers.
- Intermittently, when changing the multichannel mode, the system will not auto-reboot after exiting F1 UEFI setup and will continue through POST. Manually reboot the server to ensure all changes are applied. Applies to some legacy rack servers.
Problems Fixed: - MAC/PHY loopback test intermittent failures - If BIOS enables "Above 4G decoding", Emulex iSCSI driver is not loaded - Error message appears when saving changes to minimum BW on run time FCoE configuration - Eighth NIC function doesn't come up in UMC mode when configured in PXESelect
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - Server hangs at "Scan for Fibre Devices", when port disable/enable performed on the Brocade Converged 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter. Do not force the link down after POST has completed and then attempt a discovery of the SAN. If you do a reboot is needed.(159125)
- To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159505)
- Intermittently, 255 vPorts can not be created successfully in Windows with the error "ERROR: <127>: Not enough HBA or fabric resources. VPort not created!". There is no known workaround other than to reduce the number of configured vPorts.(155807)
- Target login will fail if you dynamically reconfigure the SAN after POST has executed. If you do, then reboot the system.(159121)
- IFM Boot target is consumed on a particular port even though the target is not accessible to that port. IFM/BOFM boot target configuration is not supported. This limitation has existed for several code releases and we are now documenting it here.(159226)
- The server may hang at "Connecting Boot Devices and Adapters" if both FCoE ports have boot targets configured when using a 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter. The server will not hang if only a single port is configured with a boot target.(157137)
- In FCoE configurations with BE3 in UFP mode on System x3690 X5 servers, a UEFI rescan is required to boot to the OS. This renders UFP not supportable in UFP/FCoE configurations(158669)
- After making changes to any options in the sub-menus under 'controller configuration' in the Emulex UEFI NIC configuration utility and escaping to the prior menu, there is no prompt to save the changes. Be sure to select 'Save' before exiting the configuration menu. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- Intermittently, when changing the multichannel mode, the system will not auto-reboot after exiting F1 UEFI setup and will continue through POST. Manually reboot the server to ensure all changes are applied. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- When using a Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module, intermittently the 10Gb link may come up as 1Gb link speed. An internal switch port bounce will typically establish a 10Gb link. Setting the switch port speed to fixed 10000 will also allow a guaranteed 10Gb connection. More info available in the Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module firmware release notes.
Problems Fixed: - Ethtool shows “speed=unknown� sometimes for slave interface. (vNIC & UFP) - SVID values are not present under PXE select utility in vNIC1 mode - UMC Mode/Personality change using IBM ASU tool does not reflect in OCM
Incremental Interoperability: - Grantley based ITE - IBM Flex System CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter - IBM Flex System CN4058S 8-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
Known Issues: - Server hangs at "Scan for Fibre Devices", when port disable/enable performed on the Brocade Converged 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter. Do not force the link down after POST has completed and then attempt a discovery of the SAN. If you do a reboot is needed.(159125)
- To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159505)
- Intermittently, 255 vPorts can not be created successfully in Windows with the error "ERROR: <127>: Not enough HBA or fabric resources. VPort not created!". There is no known workaround other than to reduce the number of configured vPorts.(155807)
- Target login will fail if you dynamically reconfigure the SAN after POST has executed. If you do, then reboot the system.(159121)
- IFM Boot target is consumed on a particular port even though the target is not accessible to that port. IFM/BOFM boot target configuration is not supported. This limitation has existed for several code releases and we are now documenting it here.(159226)
- The server may hang at "Connecting Boot Devices and Adapters" if both FCoE ports have boot targets configured when using a 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter. The server will not hang if only a single port is configured with a boot target.(157137)
- In FCoE configurations with BE3 in UFP mode on System x3690 X5 servers, a UEFI rescan is required to boot to the OS. This renders UFP not supportable in UFP/FCoE configurations(158669)
- After making changes to any options in the sub-menus under 'controller configuration' in the Emulex UEFI NIC configuration utility and escaping to the prior menu, there is no prompt to save the changes. Be sure to select 'Save' before exiting the configuration menu. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- Intermittently, when changing the multichannel mode, the system will not auto-reboot after exiting F1 UEFI setup and will continue through POST. Manually reboot the server to ensure all changes are applied. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- When using a Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module, intermittently the 10Gb link may come up as 1Gb link speed. An internal switch port bounce will typically establish a 10Gb link. Setting the switch port speed to fixed 10000 will also allow a guaranteed 10Gb connection. More info available in the Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module firmware release notes. ===============================================================================
Firmware Version: 10.2.377.20 and 10.2.377.23
Supported On: System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - PXESelect showing incorrect MAC address, bandwidth & SVID values. This bug is a cosmetic issue and only impacts PXESelect. The values which are not displayed correctly in PXESelect can be viewed in UEFI, OCM, and on the switch.(151140) - "Configurations have changed" message seen in UEFI setup screen when no changes were made. This pop-up can be ignored and will be fixed in a future code release.(159086) - FCoE VLAN ID is being displayed incorrectly as hexadecimal in UEFI menu. This is a cosmetic issue only. The correct VLAN is properly assigned, so there is no functional impact. The actual VLAN ID can be observed elsewhere. (159561) - UE seen while booting the system after a CoreDump - When NIC traffic has run on all the 8 vNICs of an ASIC, the vnics of first port are not honoring the assigned BW - SRIOV performance & Fairness for 16VMs is low on Linux and VMware - ML2 VFA5 device name is show "N/A" under IMM web and CLI of server management>Adapters - BW changes not getting updated with vNIC1 mode - Enable 100M/10M speed in set speed for SGMII interface - UCM/vNIC2, Ports/PCI functions supporting FCoE need to be differentiated to make it easier for the user - UCM/vNIC2 ability to program VirtWWN/WWPN independent of BFS Enable - iSCSI boot not working on higher order PCI functions (PF8 11)on 4 port controllers on ARI enabled systems - Can't install Windows2012 onto the iSCSI LUN whose LUN ID is not 0 - Fixed several issues related to IBM Agentless inventory management - Under heavy bi-di traffic with XE102/XE104 network disconnects can occur during failover/switch side link bounce
Known Issues: - Server hangs at "Scan for Fibre Devices", when port disable/enable performed on the Brocade Converged 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter. Do not force the link down after POST has completed and then attempt a discovery of the SAN. If you do a reboot is needed.(159125)
- To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159505)
- Intermittently, 255 vPorts can not be created successfully in Windows with the error "ERROR: <127>: Not enough HBA or fabric resources. VPort not created!". There is no known workaround other than to reduce the number of configured vPorts.(155807)
- Target login will fail if you dynamically reconfigure the SAN after POST has executed. If you do, then reboot the system.(159121)
- IFM Boot target is consumed on a particular port even though the target is not accessible to that port. IFM/BOFM boot target configuration is not supported. This limitation has existed for several code releases and we are now documenting it here.(159226)
- The server may hang at "Connecting Boot Devices and Adapters" if both FCoE ports have boot targets configured when using a 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter. The server will not hang if only a single port is configured with a boot target.(157137)
- In FCoE configurations with BE3 in UFP mode on System x3690 X5 servers, a UEFI rescan is required to boot to the OS. This renders UFP not supportable in UFP/FCoE configurations(158669)
- After making changes to any options in the sub-menus under 'controller configuration' in the Emulex UEFI NIC configuration utility and escaping to the prior menu, there is no prompt to save the changes. Be sure to select 'Save' before exiting the configuration menu. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- Intermittently, when changing the multichannel mode, the system will not auto-reboot after exiting F1 UEFI setup and will continue through POST. Manually reboot the server to ensure all changes are applied. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- When using a Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module, intermittently the 10Gb link may come up as 1Gb link speed. An internal switch port bounce will typically establish a 10Gb link. Setting the switch port speed to fixed 10000 will also allow a guaranteed 10Gb connection. More info available in the Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module firmware release notes.
Firmware Version: 10.2.261.41 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Hit BSOD during VMQ overnight traffic test with cpu affinity change - IBM VFA5 Adapter causing software panic on IBM G8246 Switch in UFP mode - LPVIDs are not getting saved in vNIC2 mode if we change mode from vNIC1 mode to vNIC2 - In MC VINC1, VNIC2, UFP modes, user should see only 4 functions per port for 2 port card
Incremental Interoperability: - Emulex VFA5 2x10 GbE SFP+ Adapter and FCoE/iSCSI SW for IBM System x - Emulex VFA5 2x10 GbE SFP+ PCIe Adapter for IBM System x - Emulex VFA5 2x10 GbE SFP+ Integrated Adapter for IBM System x
Known Issues: - Server hangs at "Scan for Fibre Devices", when port disable/enable performed on the Brocade Converged 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter. Do not force the link down after POST has completed and then attempt a discovery of the SAN. If you do a reboot is needed.(159125)
- To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159505)
- Intermittently, 255 vPorts can not be created successfully in Windows with the error "ERROR: <127>: Not enough HBA or fabric resources. VPort not created!". There is no known workaround other than to reduce the number of configured vPorts.(155807)
- Target login will fail if you dynamically reconfigure the SAN after POST has executed. If you do, then reboot the system.(159121)
- PXESelect showing incorrect MAC address, bandwidth & SVID values. This bug is a cosmetic issue and only impacts PXESelect. The values which are not displayed correctly in PXESelect can be viewed in UEFI, OCM, and on the switch.(151140)
- IFM Boot target is consumed on a particular port even though the target is not accessible to that port. IFM/BOFM boot target configuration is not supported. This limitation has existed for several code releases and we are now documenting it here.(159226)
- "Configurations have changed" message seen in UEFI setup screen when no changes were made. This pop-up can be ignored and will be fixed in a future code release.(159086)
- The server may hang at "Connecting Boot Devices and Adapters" if both FCoE ports have boot targets configured when using a 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter. The server will not hang if only a single port is configured with a boot target.(157137)
- FCoE VLAN ID is being displayed incorrectly as hexadecimal in UEFI menu. This is a cosmetic issue only. The correct VLAN is properly assigned, so there is no functional impact. The actual VLAN ID can be observed elsewhere. (159561)
- In FCoE configurations with BE3 in UFP mode on System x3690 X5 servers, a UEFI rescan is required to boot to the OS. This renders UFP not supportable in UFP/FCoE configurations(158669)
- After making changes to any options in the sub-menus under 'controller configuration' in the Emulex UEFI NIC configuration utility and escaping to the prior menu, there is no prompt to save the changes. Be sure to select 'Save' before exiting the configuration menu. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- Intermittently, when changing the multichannel mode, the system will not auto-reboot after exiting F1 UEFI setup and will continue through POST. Manually reboot the server to ensure all changes are applied. Applies to some legacy rack and blade servers.
- When using a Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module, intermittently the 10Gb link may come up as 1Gb link speed. An internal switch port bounce will typically establish a 10Gb link. Setting the switch port speed to fixed 10000 will also allow a guaranteed 10Gb connection. More info available in the Cisco Nexus 4001i Switch Module firmware release notes.
Please visit www.qlogic.com for full documentation, additional drivers, and management applications.
Version 3.2.5.6 Fixes and Enhancements: - Boot FW, UEFI, HCM related fixes - Rebranding changes
Version 3.2.3.0 New Features and Feature Enhancement: - Support for patching firmware via boot image - Support for UEFI Health Check Protocol
Fixes and Enhancements: - Enhanced Windows Network performance
Version 3.2.1.0 New Features and Feature Enhancement: - Support for "IBM Flex System FC5024D 4-port 16Gb FC Adapter" PART_NUMBER "95Y2381"
Fixes and Enhancements: - Enhanced windows Hyper-V driver to avoid a infrequent crash seen during shutdown with VMQ enabled
Version 3.2.0.0 Release for FC/NIC/CNA
New Features and Feature Enhancement: - Updated code for Brocade 1867 IBM Flex System FC5022 FC Adapter for x22 - BB Credit Recovery - Forward Error Correction (FEC) - Diagnostic Port (D-Port) - LUN Level IO Latency/Stats - UCM (Unified Configuration Manager) - Windows Network Performance and scalability enhancement
Fixes or enhancements: - For Brocade 8x5/4x5, I/O interrupt latency values are dynamically updated. Changes are effective for all the ports on the given adapter. - Addressed infrequent PSOD in VMware ESX with iSCSI or VLAN configured traffic in DCB enabled network. - Enhanced BR1860 Tape IO performance. - Improved BR1860 initialization on Xen kernel.
Version 3.1.0.1 Release for 16G FC/NIC/CNA
Adapter Features - Updated code for Brocade 1867 IBM 16G Mezzanine Fabric Adapter.
HBA - Fibre Channel 16G Support
Fixes and Enhancements: N/A
Version 3.0.3.1 Initial release for 16G FC/NIC/CNA
Adapter Features - Initial support for Brocade 1867 IBM 16G Mezzanine Fabric Adapter.
HBA - Fibre Channel 16G Support
Fixes and Enhancements: N/A brcd_fw_cna_3_2_5_6_windows_32-64_chg
System x3250 M5 Machine Type 5458 UEFI Flash Update Version 1.40 (BuildID JUE124BUS) Change History
Version 1.40 - BuildID: JUE124BUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: - Updated the Broadcom NIC file b57undix64.efi which addresses the following issues: - Restoring the IMM settings from backup will cause a TCP port error. - Broadcom BlinkLEDs can be set successfully using the ASU tool, but the LED(s) do not light on some commands when they should and do not light when the system is rebooted. - Dynamic UEFI doees not save the configuration template (OOB).
Enhancement: Limitations: Dependencies:
Version 1.30 - BuildID: JUE122DUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: - Fixed OpenSSL vulnerabilities as reported in CVE Advisories: CVE-2015-1793, CVE-2015-1789, CVE-2015-1790, CVE-2015-1792 - Fixed a problem where the following abnormal event is posted to the event log if the battery is removed from the system: "[S.381800F]Intel BIOS ACM startup failed, make sure TPM is enabled". - Fixed a problem where the F9 and F10 keys were active during POST. If one of these keys were depressed while modifying the system configuration, unexpected results could occur. For example, you could advance to another screen and your changes would not be saved. - Fixed a intermittent hang during POST at the IBM Logo Screen. This only occurred when a Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE Adapter is installed in the system. Enhancement: Limitations: Dependencies:
Version 1.20 - BuildID: JUE120EUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: - Add support three (3) external storage cards. - Updated UEFI to address these vulnerabilities: - CVE-2015-0209, CVE-2015-0286, CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0288, CVE-2015-0289 - No default power button action was set. - Set default power button action in FADT ChassisType. - Abnormal strings on BIOS setup menu with the latest Crossfield FW - Update BIOS strings for Crossfield HII Enhancement: - Set default for a setup item for onboard LAN PCIE Gen2/Gen1 selection. - Adding Socket Designation string in SMBIOS Type 7. Limitations: Dependencies:
Version 1.10 - BuildID: JUE118GUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: Enhancement: - Script file for Hash file creation. - Add a setup item for onboard LAN PCIE Gen2/Gen1 selection. Limitations: Dependencies:
Version 1.07 - BuildID: JUE118CUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: - Updated UEFI to address these vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3571, CVE-2014-3569, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2014-3570 Enhancement: - Update CPU MicroCode Version to M32306C3_0000001D Limitations: Dependencies:
Version 1.04 - BuildID: JUE116BUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: Enhancement: - Roll back Broadcom EFI driver to 16.0.4 for Broadcom 2-to-4 FOD key
Version 1.04 - BuildID: JUE116AUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: Enhancement: - Roll back Intel MRC to 1.7.0
Version 1.02 - BuildID: JUE114HUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: - [MIGR-5094338] System display unrecognized screen in console redirection Enhancement: - Add SW-RAID ROM order on Set Option ROM Execution Order - Change IPv4 "Save Changes and Exit" text string - Upgrade Intel RC to 1.8.0 - ME version auto update in SMBIOS - Support Firmware First Feature - Support Dynamic 2x refresh - Support PCI Inventory / RAID Link feature - Support Security Audit Log Feature
Version 1.01 - BuildID: JUE110RUS --------------------------------------------------- Problem(s) Fixed: Enhancements: - ServeRAID C100 support Limitations: Dependencies:
Fibre Channel Adapter STOR Miniport Driver for Windows Release Notes August 24, 2014
QLogic Driver Release Notes
QLogic Corporation All rights reserved Package Version 9.1.11.28 Driver Version 9.1.11.28
Table of Contents
1. Change History 2. Known Issues 3. Notices 4. Contacting Support
1. Change History
The following changes have been made to the Fibre Channel Adapter STOR miniport driver version 9.1.11.28.
Version 9.1.11.28
* [ER111983]: Unable to do backups at 256K block transfer size limit Scope : 2500 and 2600 Series Adapters Resolution: Fixed number of physical break with corresponding maximum transfer length * [ER132635]: Certain tape device reboot causes I/O quiescence Scope : 2500 and 2600 Series Adapters Resolution: Fixed timing issue in device re-login after logout * Firmware version: 7.03.00 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.115 (QLSDM)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.11.26
* API version 1.28.0.112 (QLSDM) * [ER115248]: Read NVRAM fails after write Resolution: Added delay between write and read in api Scope : 8200 Series Adapters * [ER115315]: Unable to update EDC Resolution: Fixed wrong lengh in built-in FLT Scope : 2500 Series Adapters * [ER114713]: Poor read write performance at certain large block sizes Resolution: Fixed delay in handling SRB queue Scope : 2600 Series Adapters * Firmware version: 7.01.00 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * [ER114741]: Login to tape device times out Scope : All FC and FCOE Adapter Resolution: Retry Relogin once * [ER113510]: Maximum number of GNNFT entries is limited to 128 Scope : All Adapters Resolution: Increased maximum number of GNNFT entries * [ER113482]: Failover on EMC storage not working when zoning is deactivated on switch Resolution: Fixed for not relogin after timeout * [ER112112]: SnapDrive cannot see luns through the QLE10K Scope : 10000 series adapter Resolution: Change the number of ports in AdapterAttributes to 1 * [ER112725]: Issue with processing certain response entry during stop HBA operation Resolution: Added check for HBA stop state before response queue processing * [ER112726]: Multi-queue debug trace feature Scope : 2500 and 2600 Series Adapters Resolution: Added per-queue debug information trace * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_02841077 (x86, x64)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.11.24
* Firmware version: 5.09.00 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.105 (QLSDM) * Fix MailboxPassthru by removing restriction on writing mbx8 register [ER104361] * Added support for Skip 4G FC [ER104575] * Allow application modify "Execution Throttle" field in nvram for 2600 series adapters [ER103297] * Add Service Pack number to OSName [ER104204] * Added api to read 2600 series adapters ASIC temperature [ER102430] * Added mailbox passthru api [ER102988] * Added reading ASIC temperature for Ninja and Sensei [ER103001] * Removed Advanced tab from Device Manager properties * Added support support for full 64 bit physical addressing [ER101742] * Added support for QLE10000 series adapters
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.10.28
* Firmware version: 5.07.02 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.101 (QLSDM) * Removed support for 2Gb speed in port supported speed for 16Gb FC in 2600 series adapters [ER100053] * Added get/set I2V registers and get/set serdes registers - OEM Adapter [ER99727] * Added support to address OEM adapter Re-design I2C access issue [ER99562] * Added adapter disable state check on timer routine re-init state handling [ER96662] * External loopback support OEM adapter when in loop mode [ER98834] * Fixed skipping OEM adapter vpd update [ER100458] * Fixed Ext Loopback test fails with Loopback connector (8Gb loop mode) [ER99702] * Fixed crash in fwdump routine [ER101039] * Limit support to node-interleaving configurations
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.10.27
* Fixed event Viewer Error 154 (Disk I/O error) occurs when running Diskercise on FC LUN [ER97809]
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.10.26 * API version 1.28.0.97 (QLSDM) * Added series adapters temperature handling [ER94159] * Removed driver family version support [ER95755] * Removed flash FLT error logging for 24xx/25xx [ER96144] * Returned NOT_SUPPORTED for SDForceFcMctpDump in api [ER96352] * Fixed memory access error [part of ER96188] * Fixed extra 4K in variable transfer sizes (64K, 128K) [ER94081] * Added support to relogin if the device logs out [ER93867] * Removed event logging for fw dump event [ER98897]
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.10.25
* Added Windows Server 2012 support [ER92249] * Not to update i2c vpd if Sensei in api [ER93800] * Fixed Flash Layout Table memory usage [ER93668] * API version 1.28.0.96 (QLSDM) * Code cleanup [ER92250] * Added support for Set Driver version for OCBB and family driver version [ER92243] * Issue with LB connector attached after it was in point-to-point mode, driver was still issuing echo instead of loopback command [ER93050] * Fixed Adapter Port type in P2P mode [ER92357] * Process completed PRLI [ER89053] * Fixed multiple request single response queue initialization issue [ER95259]
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.48
* Firmware version: 5.06.05 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.47
* Firmware version: 5.06.04 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.46
* Firmware version: 5.06.03 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.92 (QLSDM) * LUN disappearance after tape reboot [ER84117] * Failed to reissue some i/o's after controller failover (8Gb) [ER86660]
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.29
* Firmware version: 5.06.02 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.28
* Firmware version: 5.05.05 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.87 (QLSDM)
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.27
* Updated firmware version: 5.04.04 (2400/2500 Series 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters) * API version 1.28.0.85 (QLSDM) * Fixed an issue where drives were not detected in direct connect topology [ER81138]
**************************************************************************************** Version 9.1.9.25
* No fixes in this driver release.
Version 9.1.8.25
* Closed WMI mapping interoperability with HBAAPI.DLL issue.
Version 9.1.8.19
* Driver restores 4G Fibre Channel PCIe Device Control and Link Control registers based on saved value. * In multi-processor systems, the clustering driver timer popped as a result of unrecovered I/O through a LUN reset. [ER0000000067688 closed]
Version 9.1.8.17
* Firmware versions: 5.01.02 (4Gb and 8Gb) * API version 1.28.0.73 (QLSDM) * Driver restores 4G Fibre Channel PCIe Device Control and Link Control registers based on saved value.
Version 9.1.7.18
* Firmware versions: 3.03.25 (2Gb), 4.04.00 (4Gb and 8Gb). * API version 1.28.0.63 (QLSDM).
Version 9.1.7.17
* Added support for the following devices (supported platforms) (2.3m): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_8432&SUBSYS_010E1077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_014B1077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01701077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01711077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01721077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01731077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01741077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01751077 (x86, ia64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_004A1137 (x86, ia64, x64) * Removed support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_011C1077 (x86, x64) NOTE: Microsoft requires x86 and x64 support for all Fibre Channel Adapters. * Firmware versions: 3.03.25 (2Gb), 4.03.02 (4Gb). * API version 1.28.0.63 (QLSDM). * Added support for 64-bit QLSDM DLLs. * Enabled FDMI by default. * Added support for Atmel flash AT26DF081A. * Removed support for obsolete qd parameter. * Changed the driver to not log events caused by I/O completion errors.
Version 9.1.7.16 QL
* Added support for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. * Applied a fix to handle logout in the loop environment.
Version 9.1.7.15 QL
* Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_01081077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_015C1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_015D1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_015E1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_015F1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01601077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01611077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01621077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01631077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_01641077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_3261103C (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_3262103C (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_3263103C (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2532&SUBSYS_3264103C (x86, IA64, x64) NOTE: Microsoft requires x86 and x64 support for all Fibre Channel Adapters. * Firmware versions: 3.03.25 (2Gb), 4.02.00 (4Gb). * API version: 1.28.0.50 (QLSDM). * Unique assignment of management server N_Port handle values to be for each virtual port. * NPIV (N_Port ID virtualization). * Target link speed (iiDMA). * PcieLinkCap/Stat to HbaDeviceChipProperty. * Flash layout regions for 4Gb and returned flash layout table from flash if it is valid. * Three Alternate Boot Devices and OOFR (out-of-order frame receive). * Removed QL2XHAI2: IHVs are required to use Host Bus Adapter API provided by Microsoft. * Preserved BIOS defaults when updating multi-boot image whose BIOS locations can be anywhere in the image. * Fixed checksum calculation in QLSDM when two-bios image is flashed. * Initiator discovery problem caused a large burst of RSCN activity when the NetApp does its failover. A failed GPNID command occurring during ports discovery must not cause the termination of the discovery process. [ER50975 fixed] * Handled the case where the GNNFT command was failing due to incorrectly calculated the maximum data response length. * Setting the alternate WWN and enabling it in the NVRAM did not propagate through to the Host Bus Adapter. Reading the NVRAM and reinitializing the Host Bus Adapter will handle this case.
Version 9.1.4.16 QL 3.03.21 4.00.26
* Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2m+. * Firmware versions: 3.03.21 (2Gb), 4.00.26 (4Gb). * API versions: 1.28.0.37 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.14 (QL2XHAI2). * Initiator discovery problem caused a large burst of RSCN activity when the NetApp does its failover. A failed GPNID command occurring during ports discovery must not cause the termination of the discovery process. [ER50975]
Version 9.1.4.15 QL 3.03.21 4.00.26
* Firmware versions: 3.03.21 (2Gb), 4.00.26 (4Gb). * API versions: 1.28.0.37 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.14 (QL2XHAI2). * Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2m+. NOTE: Microsoft requires both x86 and x64 support all Host Bus Adapters. * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2322&SUBSYS_01151077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2322&SUBSYS_01161077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_1336103C (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_015B1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_5432&SUBSYS_01551077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_5432&SUBSYS_01561077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_014A1077 (IA64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_014B1077 (IA64) * Removed support for the following devices: - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_6312&SUBSYS_01301077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_01471077 (IA64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_01451077 (IA64) * Conformed QLSDM and the driver to the revised for "Get/Set Target Link Speed". * Increased loopback test buffer size to 2048 bytes in QLSDM. * Loopback test always failed when the NVRAM frame size is set to 512 or 1024 (Windows). Pass in transfer size instead of hard-coded value in QLSDM. [ER50975 fixed] * Handled the case where the device becomes not ready in the StartIO routine. * Fixed in SANsurfer 5.0.0 Build 4 – Driver 9.1.3.10b2—Windows IA64 SP1—HP. The Host Bus Adapter model numbers do not show up on Information page. [ER48374] * Fixed Long Erase (0x019) issues with DLT S4 and QLE2462. Error occurs (most likely a bus reset) when running a long erase that takes longer than 110 minutes on the Quantum DLT-S4 (firmware:0808) drive, which exceeds the built in 4Gb firmware timeout limit. [ER48117 (AR 48907, SR70415 [REF:609618455])]
Version 9.1.3.16 QL 3.03.21 4.00.23
* This version replaced the invalid release 9.1.3.15. * Firmware versions: 3.03.21 (2Gb), 4.00.23 (4Gb). * API versions: 1.28.0.35 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.14 (QL2XHAI2). * Removed I/O Reduction support for the 4G Host Bus Adapter.
Version 9.1.3.15 QL 3.03.21 4.00.23
* Firmware versions: 3.03.21 (2Gb), 4.00.23 (4Gb). * API versions: 1.28.0.35 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.14 (QL2XHAI2). * Added OEM specific support for assigning a virtual world wide port name via registry key. * Added "Get/Set" target link speed support. * Changed the INF to enable the I/O Reduction for the 4Gb Host Bus Adapter for the IA64 platform based on Microsoft document. * Added multiple BIOS support in QLSDM. * Initialized debug file name variable during DLL load (QL2XHAI2). * Closed EMC OPT23605: x64 Server hangs during boot at the “Applying Computer Settings.” * Cleaned up code related to get Object text for OS Device Name (QL2XHAI2). * Attached target devices not visible to OS after server reboot (QLE220) [ER47338 closed]. * Driver not Login into Target Devices (QLE220) [ER47436 closed] * Topology diagram is not displaying properly when LIP issued on QLA2462 port. [ER47530 closed]
Version 9.1.2.19 QL 3.03.19 4.00.23
* Firmware versions: 3.03.19 (2Gb), 4.00.23 (4Gb). * Bus Resets Under Heavy I/O Load. [ER46891 closed] * API Versions: 1.28.0.33 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.12 (QL2XHAI2). * SANsurfer FC HBA Manager B83 showed only one port see the storage even though no zoning. [ER47166 closed] * Port failure after disconnecting and reconnecting ISL port used by MirrorView. [Closed OPT 235681] * SANsurfer FC HBA Manager does not display the topology view correctly when the Host Bus Adapters are set to loop only until the system is rebooted. [ER47235 closed]
Version 9.1.2.18 QL 3.03.19 4.00.22
* Firmware versions: 3.03.19 (2Gb), 4.00.22 (4Gb). * API Versions: 1.28.0.33 (QLSDM), 2.0.0.12 (QL2XHAI2). * Added VPD update support for 2432 4-port adapter in 1.28.0.33 (QLSDM). * Recognized Asynchronous Event 8048h as a valid AEN. * Modified timer task to handle the case when Host Bus Adapter is in a stopped state. * 24xx only: Added support for NVRAM Nodename option bit. * 4Gb only: Added support for reading data from SFP (small form-factor pluggable) optical transceivers via QLSDM. * Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2g. * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_014D1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_014C1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_01521077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_01531077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_01541077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_5432&SUBSYS_014E1077 (x86, x64) * Adhered to firmware dump procedure per 2400 Series Firmware Interface Specification version C. * RX2600 fails to boot Windows after 1MB bin flash—SANsurfer 2.0.30b84_windows. [ER47113 closed] * Fixed: LUNs disappeared after DS4000 controller firmware download in direct attach. * "Bind By Port ID + Present Targets that are persistently bound only" is not working (in loop environment). [ER46586 closed] * Changed to perform the full firmware dump when firmware error occurs. * JBOD disks turn offline in SANsurfer FC HBA Manager and SANsurfer FC HBA CLI when settings are Present targets that are persistently bound + Bind by Port ID (in loop environment). [ER46141 closed] * Corrected firmware region size in option ROM layout, that is, firmware size in flash. * GPN_ID has wrong payload length after unplug and re-plug. [ER45035 closed] * When using the QLSDM to retrieve the transceiver data, you may get SDMGT_CANNOT_GET_SFP_DATA error on system platforms using specific models of Supermicro motherboard such as P3TDL3 and P3TDLE. The QLSDM retrieves the transceiver data using underlying 4Gb firmware (v4.00.21) that reports an error code of 4005 for this operation. * Verified support for Atmel flash chip AT26DF081A.
Version 9.1.2.16 QL 3.03.19 4.00.18
* Firmware versions: 3.03.19 (2Gb), 4.00.18 (4Gb). * Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2f. * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_6312&SUBSYS_01191077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_6312&SUBSYS_011C1077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_6312&SUBSYS_01301077 (x86, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_6322&SUBSYS_012F1077 (x86, x64) * Set additional firmware option bit 10 for 2Gb Host Bus Adapter so the firmware waits for the task management command, (such as reset LUN to complete.) * Host Bus Adapter does not re-login to target after target sends LOGO to Host Bus Adapter. [Closed OPT226506] * The link status behaves differently between QLE2460 and QLA2342. [ER44735 closed] * Incorrect HwVersion string is reported by QLogic IHV HBA_GetAdapterAttributes call. [ER45228 closed] * Event Id 11 entries logged by ql2300 at offset x10 and offset x34 do not match the Error Codes published on the Web. Because the miniport uses Microsoft's Storport.sys driver to actually log the error event, and it has been confirmed that the storport.sys driver logs the event incorrectly. A bug has been reported to Microsoft on this: SRX041110604850 (STORport—Incorrect event data is logged when storport's storportlogerror). Meanwhile, the Miniport driver is changed to log the event code at offset x10 by default. This workaround is controlled by the registry parameter mevtwrkaround. For details on this parameter, please see the readme file. [ER45230 closed] * Use memory map mechanism in the driver. [ER45232 closed]
Version 9.1.2.15 QL 3.03.19 4.00.17
* Firmware versions: 3.03.19 (2Gb), 4.00.17 (4Gb). * Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2e. * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_5432&SUBSYS_013E1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_5432&SUBSYS_013F1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_014A1077 (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2432&SUBSYS_014B1077 (x86, IA64, x64) * Added support to use combined 2Gb IPX firmware. * Added support for SST25VF080B flash part. * Added option for not to dump code section for 24xx firmware dump. * Serial number for the 4Gb Host Bus Adapter should be obtained from the VPD. [ER44270 closed] * Windows 2000/qla2340/Veritas tape backup long cable pull failed error message ERROR_DEVICE_NOT_CONNECTED. [ER38787 closed]
Version 9.1.1.15 QL 3.03.18 4.00.12
* Firmware versions: 3.03.18 (2Gb), 4.00.12 (4Gb). * QLogic 4Gb driver returns selection timeout immediately after cable pull in an OEM special dual loop configuration. [Closed PTR 90818] * QLogic Driver returns a selection timeout when rebooting a controller in an OEM special dual loop configuration. [Closed PTR 90652]
Version 9.1.0.18 QL 3.03.18 4.00.12
* Firmware versions: 3.03.18 (2Gb), 4.00.12 (4Gb). * Adhered to Subsystem Id document v2.2d. * Added support for the following devices (supported platforms): - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2422&SUBSYS_12D7103C (x86, IA64, x64) - PCI\VEN_1077&DEV_2312&SUBSYS_01491077 (x86, IA64, x64)
* Firmware versions: 3.03.16 (2Gb), 4.00.12 (4Gb). * Embedded 24xx firmware in the driver. * New driver could not detect any device to install as BOOT from SAN on one specific setup. [ER43175 closed]
Version 9.1.0.15 QL 3.03.16
* Firmware versions: 3.03.16 (2Gb), (Use onboard 4Gb firmware.) * Added 24xx support. * Need to change bit used to control LED mode. [ER42601 closed]
Version 9.0.2.17 QL 3.03.13
* Firmware versions: 3.03.16 (2Gb).
Firmware (Embedded in Driver) -----------------------------
The following lists show the changes and bug fixes to the firmware that is embedded in the drivers for the 4Gb Fibre Channel Adapters and 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters from versions 4.03.01 to 5.04.04.
From Version 5.04.02 to 5.04.04
Changes ------- * 2500 Series. Ensured that correct slot-specific SerDes settings will be used for specific mezzanine cards. [ER78047]
Bug Fixes --------- None
From Version 5.04.01 to 5.04.02
Changes ------- * Current Fibre Channel Adapter firmware supports maximum frame sizes of 512, 1024, and 2048 in the received PLOGI or PLOGI-ACC. This change provides an option to disable this restriction by setting bit 6 of Firmware Options 2 through Set Additional Firmware Options Mailbox Command (038h). Note that this option bypasses the Maximum Transmit Data Frame Size set by the Set Transmit Parameters Mailbox Command (019h). [ER76448]
Bug Fixes --------- None
From Version 5.04.00 to 5.04.01
Changes ------- * Option to Disable Automatic FDISC: Currently, the firmware automatically performs FDISC for enabled virtual ports (VPs) upon receiving an FLOGI_ACC. This procedure does not mesh well with driver architectures, which typically control the FDISCs. A new option bit allows you to suppress the automatic FDISCs. This option bit is available in both the ISP25xx and ISP81xx firmware. Older firmware ignores this option bit. Functional Description: The Disable FDISC bit (multi-ID initialize firmware control block, Global VP Options field, bit 4) disables the automatic FDISCs. If this bit is set, any VPs enabled in the multi-ID initialize firmware control block remain enabled, but the ID is not in the acquired state. The driver must issue a Modify Virtual Port Configuration IOCB (with the Command field set to 3h) to instruct the firmware to transmit the FDISC after it receives the report ID acquisition (RIDA) for VP0. When Disable FDISC is set, no FDISC is transmitted for the enabled VPs on any event, which results in a FLOGI. The driver should issue a Modify Virtual Port Configuration IOCB (with the Command field set to 3h) to instruct the firmware to transmit the FDISC for a specific VP (after receiving the RIDA for VP0). The driver must instruct the firmware to transmit an FDISC for all enabled VPs. After all the FDISC is completed, the firmware state changes to ready. In addition, a Port Database Changed AEN (8014h), with the Outgoing Mailbox 1 register set to FFFFh and Outgoing Mailbox 2 register set to 6h, is generated and passed to the driver. If the driver does not transmit FDISC for a VP, the driver must disable that specific VP using Virtual Port Control IOCB (Entry Type field 30h). This step is needed because a VP is enabled, but the ID is not in the acquired state, which can prevent the firmware state from changing to ready, and prevent generation of the Port Database AEN as previously stated. The option applies only to fabric point-to-point topology and NPIV environments. [ER74448]
* Added option to disable PRLI REC_SUPPORT bit. To disable the PRLI REC_SUPPORT bit (PRLI REC_SUPPORT bit is set by default), set bit 6 of the additional firmware option 3 of the Set Additional Firmware Options (38h) Mailbox Commands). This option has to be set prior to Initialize Firmware mailbox command (60h or 48h). [ER74764]
* 81xx only. Added Additional Firmware Options 2, bit 9 to improve NIC bandwidth when NIC and FCoE receive traffic are running concurrently. [ER69565]
* 81xx/25xx MIDQ only. Provide capability in Queue Management (1Fh) mailbox command to move a queue base address. For details, refer to the Multiple Queue Support for 2500 Series Fibre Channel and 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter Controllers Applications Note. [ER69606]
* 81xx only. Added support for LR Optics. Requires MPI FW 1.39.00 or later with proper configuration files. [ER69613]
* Added an Additional Firmware Options 3 bit to discard any frames received out of order unless the Initialize Firmware Options 3 bit 6 (Enable Receive Out-of-Order Data Frame Handling) is set to 1. Changes to Set Additional Firmware Options (38h) Mailbox Command interface: - Add to Additional Firmware Option 3 Bits (Incoming mailbox 3 register) Table: Bit 15 Do not transfer received out of order data for an exchange to host memory (except during SRR recovery). - Replace bit_15 description with: Bit 15 (Do not transfer received out of order data for an exchange to host memory). When this bit is set to 1, the ISP firmware does not transfer received out-of-order data for an exchange to host memory, except during SRR recovery. A frame is considered "out-of-order" after a previously-received frame is dropped due to an error, as well as a true out-of-order frame receipt condition. NOTE: Bit 15 is ignored when Initialize Firmware Options 3 bit 6 (Enable Receive Out-of-Order Data Frame Handling) is set to 1. [ER70311]
* 24xx/25xx only. Bit 8 of State Flags field in Status IOCB Type has been changed from Reserved to "Unable to send OPN to Destination." This bit is set when the destination device sends an immediate CLS in response to an OPN from ISP. [ER71132]
* Add option to disable the firmware automatic port login (PLOGI) to the simple name server (SNS). To enable this feature, set Bit 15 of Additional Firmware Options 2 when issuing Set Additional Firmware Options Mailbox Command 0038h. [ER71742]
* 24xx SB2 only. Return the lower 16-bit of current RBC count in Receive IU and Add Buffer IOCBs. This extends the scope of ER68875 to include 24xx. - For IOCB type 0x4D, the lower 16-bit of the counter is stored at offset 0x3E to 0x3F. - For IOCB type 0x4C, the lower 16-bit is stored at offset 0x1C to 0x1D. [ER71764]
* 81xx only. Added an Additional Firmware Options 2 bit to post all Asynchronous IOCBs to the ATIO queue when target mode is enabled. Changes to Set Additional Firmware Options (38h) mailbox command interface: - Add to Additional Firmware Option 2 Bits (Incoming mailbox 2 register) Table: Bit 11 Enable Asynchronous IOCBs to ATIO queue. - Replace bit 11 description with: Bit 11 (Enable Asynchronous IOCBs to ATIO queue). When this bit is set to 1, the firmware posts all asynchronous IOCBs (PUREX, ABTS Received, and Report ID Acquisition) to the ATIO queue when target operation is enabled. Additionally, if a login-affecting ELS command (PLOGI, PRLI, PRLO, LOGO, ADISC, PDISC, or TPRLO) is passed up to the target driver, an Immediate Notify IOCB with Status Code 46h, Login affecting ELS command received, shall not be sent. Initialize Firmware Options 3 bit 26 (Enable Ethernet Header Receive IOCB for ATIO Queue) is used to request the firmware place an Ethernet Header Receive IOCB on the ATIO queue before each PUREX and ABTS Received IOCB. Initialize Firmware Options 3 bit 27 (Enable Ethernet Header Receive IOCB for Response Queue) shall be ignored. When bit 11 is set to 0, the firmware posts asynchronous IOCBs to queues specified in the ISP81xx firmware specification. Changes to Initialize Firmware, Firmware Options 3: - Bit 27 (Enable Ethernet Header Receive IOCB for Response Queue). When Additional Firmware Option 2 bit 11 (Enable Asynchronous IOCBs to ATIO queue) is set, this bit is ignored. - Bit 26 (Enable Ethernet Header Receive IOCB for ATIO Queue). When Additional Firmware Option 2 bit 11 (Enable Asynchronous IOCBs to ATIO queue) is set, and this bit is set, the firmware places an Ethernet Header Receive IOCB on the ATIO queue before each PUREX and ABTS Received IOCB. [ER71877]
* MID only. Send LOGO if an FDISC is rejected with error/explanation code 03/0D. After LOGO ACC is received, the firmware retries the FDISC. [ER72460]
Bug Fixes --------- * 81xx only. Corrected FCP-2 processing during a link disruption until re-discovery is complete. [ER66337]
* MIDQ builds. Corrected N_Port-N_Port FLOGI Dest ID of 0. [ER67952]
* 2532-based adapter only. Corrected an issue that could prevent the link from being established when connected to specific targets operating at 8Gb link speed in a loop topology. [ER68658]
* Correct abort handling of a Command Type 6 IO that could result in fatal firmware error or I/O timeout. [ER68965]
* 81xx only. Set a Buffer Credit value of 16 in FLOGI/FDISC for interoperability with FCFs that incorrectly use the field. [ER69182]
* 81xx only. Correct handling of received stale frames forwarded by an FCF after the link is re-established. [ER69245]
* 81xx only. Corrected an issue that would prevent the link from being re-established after a cable pull. [ER69291]
* Correctly set the "sequence initiative transferred bit" (F_CTL) for transmission of status mode 2 FCP_RSP with confirmation request. [ER69336]
* 81xx only. Added support to detect MPI pause during heartbeat processing. [ER69457]
* Disk CRC only. Correct firmware reported residual Byte Count for CRC (T10) Read commands. [ER69564]
* 81xx only. Corrected CTIO handling when the link was down. [ER69683]
* 81xx only. Corrected an issue with Internal Loopback failure reported when link is up to an FCF. [ER69685]
* 24xx CRC only. Resolve 8002 system error during DIF error processing. [ER69922]
* 25xx and 81xx only. Corrected possible memory leak during clean-up of T10 CRC IOs with DIF Bundling enabled. [ER70018]
* 25xx and 81xx only. Corrected false DIF error reported during T10 CRC transmit IO with DIF Bundling. [ER70038]
* Corrected Target XCB count returned by Get Resource Counts Mailbox Command (0042h). [ER70149]
* Corrected a RISC pause condition after the Diagnostic Echo Test (44h) mailbox command completed with an error status. [ER70166]
* 25xx and 81xx only. Corrected a potential I/O timeout of T10 CRC IO when using DIF bundling. [ER70319]
* 25xx and 81xx only. Corrected potential invalid PCIe access when aborting a T10 CRC IO when using DIF bundling. [ER70558]
* Corrected N_Port Handle assignment by firmware when Purex is enabled. [ER70575]
* 81xx only. The firmware could incorrectly set bit 15 of N_Port Handle returned by the Get Port/Node Name List (75h) mailbox command. [ER70664]
* 81xx only. Corrected a problem where the values supplied in the Set Timeout Parameters (32h) mailbox command were not honored. [ER70708]
* Prevent 8002 system error when processing a severely malformed IOCB. [ER70910]
* Corrected a RISC pause condition during SRR received notify ACK processing. [ER70921]
* 24xx only: Improved link init time when using Inline Credit Extender in an N_Port-N_Port configuration. [ER71034]
* Fixed Loopback mailbox command timeout when Fibre Channel event (FCE) extended tracing is enabled. [ER71269]
* Corrected a problem that could result in a Task Management command timeout. [ER72100]
* Corrected handling of frames received with DID = 000000h. [ER72270]
* 81xx only. Fix CTIO with terminate exchange bit returned good completion status (01h) after the CTIO is already completed. The CTIO with a terminate exchange bit should instead return an invalid receive exchange address (08h) completion status. [ER72491]
* MID builds only. Fix CTIO with terminate exchange bit failed with completion status=29h. [ER72571]
* 81xx only. Corrected a problem that caused FDISC not generated by the firmware when Virtual Port Control IOCB (type=30h) is used to enable VP. [ER72921]
* MID only. Correct the cleanup of outstanding ELS requests during VP disable. [ER73048]
* MID only. Resolve RISC pause after cable pull or link event. [ER73090]
From Version 5.02.00 to 5.03.00
Changes ------- * Added feature to return LOGIN info via Mailbox Command 5Ah - Get Params, using type 7. Entry Parameters (Incoming): Mailbox0 - opcode (005ah) Mailbox1 - Type<15:8>, reserved<7:0> Mailbox2 - buffer addr<31:16> Mailbox3 - buffer addr<15:0> Mailbox6 - buffer addr<63:48> Mailbox7 - buffer addr<47:32> Mailbox8 - DW Xfr Length (only valid for Type 7) Exit Parameters (Outgoing): Mailbox0 - (4000h) normal completion - (4002h) DMA error - (4005h) error during command execution - (4006h) if unsupported type or DW Xfr requested is too small ( 28DW <.. ) data got truncated Mailbox1 - If Outgoing Mailbox 0 is 4005h, then Outgoing Mailbox 1 will have the following sub-code: 0002h - No IOCB Mailbox8 - DW Xfr Data (should be 28 for typical PLOGI, only valid for Type 7)
The format returned is according to FC-LS-2 (Fibre Channel - Link Services - 2), rev.2.00 - FLOGI/PLOGI payload minus ELS command code. [ER66811]
* 8100 only. Added support for MPI heartbeat feature. Contact QLogic for details. [ER67656]
* 8100 only. Changes to support additional MPI mailbox commands in the range 136h to 150h. [ER67716]
* 2532/8100 CRC. Implemented CTIO Type CRC_2 and support DIF bundling on CTIO CRC IOCBs.[ER67727]
* 2532 SB2 only. Return the lower 16-bit of current RBC count in Receive IU and Add Buffer IOCBs. - For IOCB type 0x4D, the lower 16-bit of the counter is stored at offset 0x3E to 0x3F. - For IOCB type 0x4C, the lower 16-bit is stored at offset 0x1C to 0x1D. NOTE: This feature will be documented in the upcoming SB-4 spec. [ER68875]
Bug Fixes --------- * MID only. Do not report RSCN for VPs that have been disabled. Previously, the firmware generated 8015 AEN with an invalid vpindex. [ER62856]
* 2532/8100 CRC T10. Resolved bad FCP_DATA sequence due to incorrect re-initialization of the CRC context for Header mode. This affected T10 write commands with multiple FCP_XFER_RDYs. [ER67220]
* Removed zeroed optional association headers from RRQ payload. [ER67210]
* 24xx/2532 only. Corrected a problem in PLOGI ACC processing that could result in failure to respond to a subsequent PRLI. [ER67333]
* 8100 only. Changed login/logout IOCB processing to correctly format a LOGO sent to the fabric controller. [ER69214]
* Resolved a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) due to a race condition when the exchange timer expires at the same time FCP_XFER_RDY is received. [ER69068]
* 8100 only. Changed link down handling to prevent a stall in received FCoE frame processing. [ER68914]
* Prevented Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) when processing an invalid ELS response type. This problem could occur if a switch sent an erroneous ELS response to a CT pass-thru request. [ER68488]
* 8100 only. Fixed a hang that could occur when processing a new request for an FCP2 capable device after a link status change. [ER68339]
* 2532/8100 only. Resolved intermittent Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) and FKA failures during Flash access. [ER68257]
* Modified RNID processing to correctly handle a response with a "Specific Identification Data Length" field of zero. [ER67623]
* 2532/8100 CRC T10. Changed buffer pointer validation to prevent erroneous 8002 system errors. [ER67568]
* 24xx/2532 only. Fixed a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) caused by a problem cleaning up after a port discovery timeout. [ER67345]
* 8100 only. Prevented accidental overwrite of the PortName within a port descriptor data structure. Problem could occur during the execution of mailbox commands 30h, 31h, 51h, or 60h. [ER67181]
* Fixed 200ms delay for Command Type 6 IOCBs when residual underrun occurs, and FCP_RSP DMA is enabled. [ER67159]
* 8100 only. Resolved intermittent resource allocation failures in Read SFP mailbox command (31h). Improved failure sub code reporting in mailbox 1 for both Read(31h) and Write(30h) mailbox commands. [ER69146]
* Corrected ADISC ELS check for ELS passup and fixed potential bad pointer when building ELS frame. [ER67799]
* Fixed mailbox command Diagnostic Loop Back failures with Status 4005 and Subcode 0x17. [ER67690 8100 only]
* Fix erroneous discard of a valid FIP VLAN Notification frame when the frame does not have an IEEE 801.2 Q Tag and the FIP descriptor list length is greater than 8 (words). [ER67062 8100 only]
* 24xx/2532 only. Improved firmware handling of I2C SFP interface to better support some SFPs. [ER67479]
* 8100 only. Report NIC driver attached status in Get firmware State Mailbox Command (069h). For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification, rev C. [ER65051]
* 8100 only. Firmware will return parameter error (4006h) if the Initialize Firmware Mailbox Command (060h) or Initialize Firmware Multiple IDs Mailbox Command (048h) specifies use of the optional Extended Initialization Control Block and provide a length of zero bytes. [ER65184]
* 8100 only. Changed the Perform Implicit LOGO Mailbox Command (072h) to allow the Perform Logout for All Ports across All FCFs option (bit 1 of incoming Mailbox Register 1) in single FCF configurations. [ER65220]
* Added a feature to reject PRLI from Fabric Control (FFFCxx) when target mode is disabled. To enable this option, set bit 7 of Mailbox 2 in the Set Additional Firmware Options Mailbox Command (0038h). [ER66061]
* 8100 only. Changed Get Link Status/Read Port Status Mailbox Command (06Bh) and Get Link Statistics and Private Data Mailbox Command (06Dh) to return counters consistent with the FCoE Link Error Status Block (LESB). Figure 3-4 of the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification now contains the following counters: Link Failure Count, Virtual Link Failure Count, Missing FIP Keep Alive or Discovery Advertisement Count, Symbol Error During Carrier Count, Error'd Block Count, and Frame Check Sequence Error Count. [ER66125]
Bug Fixes --------- * MID only. Fixed an issue to prevent invalid VP misconfigurations that can result in a Fatal Firmware Error 8002h. [ER63706]
* 8100 only. Corrected ELS and BLS timeout units conversion when processing Mailbox Commands Get Timeout Parameters (0022h) and Set Timeout Parameters (0032h). [ER65155]
* 8100 only. Corrected an issue after External Loopback was performed that prevented FIP from completing. [ER65165]
* SB2 only. Corrected a condition in RRQ processing that could result in a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) after receipt of an ABTS. [ER65232]
* Fixed an issue that caused a rediscovery of FCFs if FIP FLOGI timed out. [ER65757]
* Corrected a problem in target mode operation during confirmation processing that could result in a Fatal Firmware Error 8002h. [ER65415 8100 only]
* 24xx and 2532 only. Corrected auto-negotiation algorithm that would restore the link at the previous speed instead of the maximum speed. [ER65802]
* 8100 non MID only. Corrected a condition where the firmware state would not become Ready after switch port was shutdown and restored. [ER65980]
* Retry FIP VLAN Discovery after FIP Discovery Solicitation fails to find a primary FCF. [ER65980]
* Return LoginState in IO Parameter 1 when Login/Logout IOCB PRLI IO Parameter 0 = 4 (Command Failed). [ER66045]
* 2532 and 8100 MID only. Corrected VP Index range checking during processing of VP Control IOCB. [ER66068]
* Corrected Firmware Error reported during Purex IOCB processing if the Port Database for the target device had been initialized. [ER66082]
* 8100 only. Fixed detection of EP device. [ER66204]
* MID only. Corrected a problem which could result in LOGO sent with SID=000000 or incorrect reporting of VP status after a VP is disabled. [ER66553]
* 2532/8100 MIDQ only. Resolved a long delay in processing Command Type 6 IOCBs after link level fault injection. [ER66755]
* Fixed RISC pause condition when using T10 CRC with DIF_bundling. [ER66803]
* 2532 and 8100 only. Add DSD chaining support to command CRC type IOCBs. [ER62531]
* 8100 only. Updated Immediate Notify to reflect format described in the firmware spec. For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER63872, ER64455]
* 8100 only. When detected, report MPI configuration error and reason code in Get Firmware State Mailbox Command (069h). For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64342]
* 8100 only. Added new error completion codes to Restart MPI Mailbox Command (03Dh). For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64391]
* 8100 only. Implement SFP Read/Write Mailbox Commands (031h and 030h). For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64406]
* 8100 only. Modify Report ID Acquisition IOCB to return subcode for status 0x01, Unable to acquire ID, for FDISC. The subcode is returned at offset 10h. [ER64497]
* 8100 only. Update Get DCBX Parameters Mailbox Command (051h) to match latest spec. For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64672]
* 8100 only. Implement Get XGMAC Statistics Mailbox Command (07Ah). For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64673]
* 8100 only. Return SFP status information. See Asynchronous Event 8012h and Mailbox Commands 05Dh, 048h, 060h, and 069h. For details, see the 8100 Series Fibre Channel Firmware Interface Specification Rev C. [ER64732]
Bug Fixes --------- * 8100 only. Corrected handling of FLOGI Timeout and Reject processing by using Retry Count and Timeout as specified in Initialize Firmware Control Block. [ER63856]
* Corrected a condition where an Immediate Notify could be sent to the system driver when a VP is not configured for Target Mode operation. [ER64176]
* Corrected cleanup of pending Transmit Data requests across fault injection. [ER64251]
* 8100 only. Corrected a potential firmware hang condition after processing an ELS timeout or recovering from an internal error. [ER64265]
* SB2 only. Corrected a condition where the System Defined 1 field of an IOCB being returned to the system driver may be overwritten. [ER64315]
* 8100 only. Correct an issue with Flash Access Mailbox Command (003Eh). [ER64377]
* 8100 only. Corrected potential FCoE traffic stall after Port Reset completes. [ER64435]
* 8100 only. Fix FIP Failure to find FCF after a number of cable pulls/insertions into different FCF ports. [ER64454]
* 8100 only. Get FCF List Mailbox Command (050h) may fail to find valid FCF Index. [ER64507]
* 8100 only. Corrected false Loopback errors reported during internal and external tests. [ER64520]
* Corrected potential RISC pause when PUREX is enabled. [ER64520]
* 8100 only. Fixed incorrect Destination MAC address in FIP FLOGI request after an FCF Fabric name change. [ER64585]
* 8100 only. Allow primary port to be discovered via FDISC after it received a Clear Virtual Link or Fabric LOGO and another Virtual Port becomes the master. [ER64590]
* 2400/2532 only. Corrected a condition where a FCP RSP could be transmitted across a LIP and before the discovery timer expires in private loop topology. [ER64705]
* 8100 only. Corrected Firmware hang condition after receiving an ABTS. [ER64902]
From Version 4.06.00 to 5.00.00
Changes ------- * MID only. The firmware now returns a Port Unavailable (28h) Completion Status if the VP Index fails validation during a SCSI Task Management request. [ER62857]
* MID only. The firmware now allows Get VP Database Mailbox Command (49h) regardless of VP Status. [ER62858]
* SB2 only. The firmware now allows Get Link Status Mailbox Command (06bh) to complete even though Process Login has not completed. [ER63650]
Bug Fixes --------- * Fixed an issue to prevent initiating an LR upon a Transmit timeout while the firmware services other requests. [ER61666]
* Fixed an issue that delayed starting new Transmit requests if a Transmit error is pending. [ER61682]
* Corrected the auto-negotiation algorithm that could prevent the link from establishing when connected to a switch. [ER62000, ER62172]
* Corrected CTIO handling when link is down and CTIO received with an Exchange Address of FFFFFFFFh. [ER62715]
* MID only. Corrected various issues relating to VF support. [ER62798]
* Corrected issues found with VF and Fabric LOGO processing. Also corrected the valid VP Count range to 1-254. [ER62826]
* MID only. Corrected Source and Destination Address on an SCR retry. [ER62886]
* Completed various FCE tracing fixes. [ER62952, ER63400]
* Customer-specific fix. [ER63104]
* Corrected IDLE character to ArbFF when connected at 8Gb rate. [ER63488]
* Corrected an issue where a Mailbox or Mailbox IOCB request would not complete if a Fabric LOGO occurred. [ER63563]
* DISK CRC only. Corrected a RISC Pause condition reported during cable pull testing.[ER63564]
* Fixed an incorrect Response In Pointer reported in the RISC to Host Status Register when running in ZIO mode. [ER63790]
* 2532 MID multiple queue only. Corrected a link credit issue that resulted in decreased performance. [ER63913]
From Version 4.05.00 to 4.06.00
Changes ------- * 2532 only. Added support for Virtual Fabrics. Contact QLogic for API changes to support VFs. [ER60036, ER60250]
* MID only. Added feature to allow the firmware to perform SNS Login and SCR registration for virtual ports. This feature is enabled by setting bit 6 of the Options field during Initialize Firmware - Multiple IDs Mailbox Command (048h). Added the following status/ substatus values to Report ID Acquired IOCB:
VP Status Description --------- ----------- 3 SNS Timeout. See byte offsets 23:20 for Sub-status. 4 SNS LS_RJT (Reason/Explanation/Vendor Unique in IOCB byte offsets 23:20). 5 SCR Timeout. See byte offset 23:20 for Sub-status. 6 SCR LS_RJT (Reason/Explanation/Vendor Unique in IOCB byte offsets 23:20).[ER61930]
Bug Fixes --------- * MID only. Process received LOGO from F_Port. The associated Port Database Changed (8014h) asynchronous event will differ from a LOGO received from an N_Port as follows:
* 2532 only. Added the ability to specify a maximum Fibre Channel Link speed to be negotiated. This feature is enabled by bit 12 of the Initialize Firmware Control Block’s Firmware Option 3. When this bit is set to 1, firmware will negotiate the FC data rate from the given max speed specified by driver in bits 15-13 of the Initialize Firmware Control Block’s Firmware Options 3 field to two speeds down to what the SFP allowed. This option can also be set in the Data Rate Mailbox Command (05dh). When incoming mailbox 1 is set to 03h, firmware forces a loss of sync, restarts link initialization, and negotiates the FC data rate from the given max speed specified by driver in incoming mailbox 2 to two speeds down to what the SFP allowed. [ER60321]
* Allow system driver to send LOGO ELS via ELS Pass-Through IOCB using an N_Port Handle of FFFFh. [ER60400]
* MID only. Return Command Parameter Error (4006h) if the number of requested VP’s exceeds the limit when issuing Initialize Firmware – Multiple-IDs Mailbox Command (048h).
* 2432 only. Disable PCIe Completion Timeout. PCIe Completion Timeout has been disabled to address issues seen on certain systems where PCIe completion could take over 50ms. [ER61461]
Bug Fixes --------- * MID only. Corrected problems related to fault injection. [ER59740, ER60612]
* MID only. Various fixes to improve detection and processing of topology changes. [ER60127, ER60326, ER60610, ER60633]
* Corrected timing of when RRQ is issued after ABTS ACC is received. [ER60248]
* Corrected Out-of-Order handling of overlapped or repeating received XFR_RDY frames. [ER60318]
* 2532 Disk CRC only. Various Disk CRC changes to remove Fatal Firmware errors (8002h) being reported. [ER60336, ER61222, ER61223]
* MID only. Corrected a problem where a LOGO ELS could be sent to a port that was not logged in. [ER60565]
* MID only. Corrected a problem where a FLOGI/FDISC would not be sent to the switch after a previous FLOGI/FDISC completed with an ELS RJT. [ER60566]
* MID only. A PLOGI could be rejected for a Virtual Port even though the Primary Port parameters have not changed. [ER60568]
* MID only. Corrected a problem where an incorrect number of acquired AL_PAs could be reported during the LIRP and LILP phases of loop initialization. [ER60569]
* MID only. Login/Logout IOCB completion status was incorrect when no FLOGI ACC ELS had been received. [ER60571]
* Corrected a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) when a CTIO IOCB with Confirmation Satisfied is received when the FCP_RSP has not been sent yet. The CTIO will be returned with a completion status of Invalid Request (06h). [ER60572]
* MID only. Corrected handling of incoming frames while waiting for LOGI ACC ELS for the primary port. [ER60576]
* Corrected a problem when attempting to abort an ELS Pass-Through operation when a PLOGI is received that changes the ports D_ID. [ER60637]
* Class 2 only. Corrected Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) reported when attempting to abort transmit operations. [ER60698]
* Corrected timer values used with link recovery. [ER60877]
* Improved handling of receiving an ABTS for a CT Pass-Through exchange. [ER61007]
* Corrected a problem with aborting IOs for the incorrect LUN when a LUN Level Task Management Function is active. [ER61155]
* MID only. Ensure that Buffer-Buffer Credits are not modified when processing FDISC or FDISC-ACC. [ER61187, ER61216]
* MID only. Correctly track changing of local 24-bit ID during cleanup. [ER61200]
* Handle race condition of completing transmit of PLOGI-ACC and receiving PRLI. [ER61465]
* Corrected failures reported by Loopback Mailbox Command (45h) and Echo Mailbox Command (44h). Added sub-error codes to Outgoing Mailbox 3 of the Echo Command to match the Loopback Command. [ER59630, ER59631]
Bug Fixes --------- * Disk CRC only. Corrected handling of frames received out of order in target mode. [ER58251, ER58760, ER58761]
* 2532 Disk CRC only. Corrected condition where the firmware would overwrite the IOCB Entry Status field when the device receives invalid IOCBs. [ER58532]
* 2532 Disk CRC only. Fixed a condition that could result in false DIF Errors when receiving runt block data. [ER58533]
* Disk CRC and 2532 only. Corrected an issue with multi-sequence DIF Remove functionality. [ER58752]
* 2532 only. Corrected a RISC pause that occurred when optional external memory is present. [ER58783]
* Corrected endianess of RNID user defined data field. [ER58802]
* Set correct Immediate Notify IOCB sub-code during fault injection. [ER58897]
* Improved handling of switches that transition link from F-FL-F when the device is directly connected to a switch port. [ER59100]
* Corrected issues relating to the EHAFT feature. [ER59279, ER59431]
* Corrected a target mode issue where an ATIO Queue update interrupt would not be posted when using a small ATIO queue. [ER59385]
* Corrected a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) reported when ISP receives FCP_RSP with a payload length greater than 240 bytes. This problem would occur when Command Type 6 IOCB is used with the option to DMA the FCP_RSP payload to the host is enabled. [ER59503]
* 2532 only. Corrected the ending memory address reported by About Firmware Mailbox Command (08h) when external memory is present. [ER59793]
* 2532 only. Corrected the Report Link Statistics information for Loop topology. [ER59989]
* SB2 only. Corrected a problem where the firmware was clearing the N_Port Handle field of a SB2 Send IU IOCB. [ER60017]
* Disk CRC and 2532 only. Corrected false DMA error reported when using CTIO Type 7 IOCB (Target Mode) with Status Mode 2 selected. [ER60067]
* Fixed a problem that may cause a target level Task Management Function to fail while a LUN Level Task Management Function is outstanding. [ER60126]
* MID and 2532 only. Corrected a Fatal Firmware Error (8002h) reported after adapter side fault injection. [ER60256]
* Corrected a condition where the local loop would not recover after a transmit error was encountered.[ER60301]
From Version 4.03.01 to 4.03.02
Changes ------- * 2532 only. Enabled additional FC SerDes parameters to be set via Flash for mezzanine cards. [ER59755]
Bug Fixes --------- None
From Version 4.03.00 to 4.03.01
Changes ------- * 2532 only. Added support for mezzanine adapters Added a new bit, Embedded HBA, in Flash to indicate an adapter that does not use SFP+, and transmits FC signal over a copper backplane or mid-plane. [ER58635]
Bug Fixes --------- * 2432 only. Corrected a condition where Mailbox Commands issued to Function 1 would not complete after issuing Stop Firmware Mailbox Command (14h) to Function 0. [ER58617]
2. Known Issues
None.
3. Notices
Information furnished in this document is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications described in this document for any of these products are only for illustrative purposes. QLogic Corporation makes no representation nor warranty that such applications are suitable for the specified use without further testing or modification. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.
4. Contacting Support
For further assisance, contact QLogic Technical Support at: http://support.qlogic.com
Trademarks
Accelera, Accelerating Cluster Performance, InfiniCon Systems, InfiniNIC, InfiniPath, InfiniView, QLA, QLogic, the QLogic logo, ReadyPath, SANdoctor, SANsurfer, and SilverStorm are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
(c) Copyright 2013. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic and the QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. qlgc_dd_fc_9_1_11_28_windows_32-64_chg
Broadcom NetXtreme I Firmware Update Utility for IBM servers and options using the Broadcom NetXtreme I ethernet adapters.
Version 17.4.4.2a, March 8, 2016
This update package supports the following Broadcom devices: =========================================================== - BCM5717 NetXtreme I LOM - BCM5718 NetXtreme I LOM - BRCM5718 NetXtreme I Gigabit Ethernet Adapter / Product No: 49Y7900 - BCM5719 NetXtreme I LOM - BCM5719 NetXtreme I Gigabit Ethernet Adapter / Product No: 90Y9352 - BCM5720 NetXtreme I Gigabit Ethernet Adapter / Product No: 90Y9370
This update packages updates your Broadcom LOM/Adapter Firmware Code to the levels shown below:
Firmware code: Version Previous ==================== ======== ========== Bootcode for 5717 1.65 1.65 Bootcode for 5717C0 2.10 2.10 Bootcode for 5718 1.65 1.65 Bootcode for 5719 1.43 1.43 Bootcode for 5720 1.39 1.39 iSCSI Boot 18.0.0 18.0.0 EFI Undi 17.4.0* 17.4.0* PXE NX1 17.2.1 17.2.1 NCSI Firmware NX1 1.3.12 1.3.12
Note: An asterisk (*) following a version number represents a certified driver. Arrows (<<) between versions indicate the component has been updated from the previous released software kit.
brcm_fw_nic_17_4_4_2a_windows_32-64_chg
BIOS/FW/UEFI Update for IBM N2200 Series SAS/SATA HBA Controllers
Controller Supported: IBM N2215 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (47C8676) IBM N2225 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (00AE912) IBM N2226 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (00AE916)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 1.11.01 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 08.27.00.00 11.125.00.00 13.00.00.00
Firmware Fixes: - Fixed issue where invalid or unsupported signature FIS was not validated for expander attached SATA drives (SCGCQ00852290) - Fixed issue where BUSY TIMEOUT PERIOD Field was incorrectly populated in UCM Control Mode Page for SATA Drive (SCGCQ00871463) - Fixed issue where during SATA FORMAT Operation, REQUEST SENSE command is not failed with expected response where DESC bit is set (SCGCQ00872727) - Fixed slot assignment to direct attach SEP Device Handle that previously resulted in slot number out of bounds condition (SCGCQ00894230) - Fixed issue where locate was not working for a particular slot in the external enclosure due to firmware not picking up the correct phy index (SCGCQ00932707) - Fixed issue where 19th entry of Self-Test Results Log Page was not showing during SAT translation. (SCGCQ00847941) - Fixed issue where SATA hinting feature causes IO timeouts with slow spin up drives under Linux (SCGCQ00867345) - Fixed issue where SCSI ATA passthrough code did not check for correct CDB length (SCGCQ00915201) - Fixed issue where SES command locate fails for first time after discovery when slot number information source bit is set (SCGCQ00923283) - Fixed fault 0x4300 during discovery error recovery testing (SCGCQ00860398) - Fixed issue where SES locate was not working for external enclosure (SCGCQ00915737) - Fixed fault d060 observed when running IOs with link_reset Task management command in a loop (SCGCQ00865100, Port of SCGCQ00840603) - Fixed issue where after cable pull, SAS device page 0 entry device present for missing expander after discovery complete (SCGCQ00910603, Port of SCGCQ00904470) - Fixed PL Fault 0x6002 When Sending SCSI Security Protocol Out Commands to SATA SSDs (SCGCQ00910188, Port of SCGCQ00888033) - Fixed PL Fault 0x5833 When Performing Controller Reboots (SCGCQ00895602, Port of SCGCQ00888103) - Fixed issue where IOs completed with good status when EEDP Check enabled and EEDP error injected with 4096 block size(SCGCQ00856981, Port of SCGCQ00855669) - Fixed issue where system hangs after adapter reset with heavy IO load (SCGCQ00877119, Port of SCGCQ00646625) - Fixed issue where when using a large number of SATA drives, out of resource condition may cause IOs to be pended indefinately (SCGCQ00887685, Port of SCGCQ00885544) - Fixed issue where SATA SSDs in locked state not showing up after manually loading driver. (SCGCQ00859102, Port of SCGCQ00843668) - Fixed issue where SSD Marked Failed After Encountering 03/1100 Sense (Medium Error) (SCGCQ00945560, Port of SCGCQ00933048) - Fixed long I/O latency with large burst of non-auto I/Os generated while other read/write I/Os are running (SCGCQ00884667, Port of SCGCQ00884179) - Fixed issue where fast back-to-back or parallel PCIe configuration requests after certain addresses can generate bad Config Read data (SCGCQ01070088, Port of SCGCQ01047773) - Fixed PL Fault 0x5814 while handling Task Management during IO Timeout (SCGCQ00860153, Port of SCGCQ00842366)
UEFI Fixes: - Fixed issue where UEFI/HII offered RAID10 & RAID1E creation even when these RAID levels are disabled (SCGCQ00855519) - Fixed issue where following a system BIOS update, system hangs in HII 'Change Controller Properties'. (SCGCQ00907731) - Fixed issue where the SEP devices are not exposed in Extended SCSI Passthru protocol (SCGCQ00907013, Port of SCGCQ00905547)
UEFI Enhancements: - Use PCI IO Protocol Write function as alternate to Serial IO write function to route debug messages to serial port of host system. (SCGCQ00898744) - Add Logical Block Size of disk to device properties screen in HII. (SCGCQ00886820) - Eliminate Maximum transfer size limitation of BlockI/O calls in SAS3 IT UEFI (SCGCQ00850298) - Modify Port and Phy Configuration in UEFI HII to accomodate multiple SAS cores and disabled core. (SCGCQ00834025, Port of SCGCQ00802753) - Added relevant help message for Phy settings. (SCGCQ00869976)
BIOS Fixes: - Fixed long response delays with config utility navigation response. (SCGCQ00884882) - Fixed issue where BIOS CU displays "page read error" messages when connected to large topology. (SCGCQ00886786) - Fixed help text of format tab for 4K SAS drives. (SCGCQ00860653, Port of SCGCQ00834444)
BIOS Enhancements: - Add Logical Block Size of disk to device properties screen. (SCGCQ00898447, Port of SCGCQ00887338) - Change Auto-Refresh Interval for BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) Topology Screen (SCGCQ00898423, Port of SCGCQ00887368)
- Fixed issue where rapid successive controller resets would cause HBA to stop responding on the PCIe bus (SCGCQ00556766) - Fixed issue where when phy power management is enabled, TARGET RESET function fails yet command is reported a success. (SCGCQ00570820) - Fixed issue where PCIe Link Down can cause transmit margin field to not reset resulting in PCIe validation tests failing (SCGCQ00663185) - Fixed issue where SCSI command is not failed with expected response when SATA drive undergoing a format operation and reserved fields are set as Non-Zero value (SCGCQ00679566) - Fixed issue where read log ext command wasn't issued by PL FW to recover from error during the failure of write verify command (SCGCQ00675166) - Fixed IOC fault state 0x1609 caused by Message Unit Reset (SCGCQ00582515) - Fixed issue where SAS Phy page 1 and 2 error counters wrap around when maximum values are reached. (SCGCQ00651231) - Fixed fault 0x265D when running large block IO with higher Qdepth (SCGCQ00600832) - Fixed issue in Transport Layer Retries Code causing 0x265D and 0x0501 faults (SCGCQ00609576) - Fixed issue where Bad TLB entry causes 0x26B5 fault in IT/IR firmware (SCGCQ00629210) - Fixed 0x6828 fault when using large CDB (SCGCQ00614498) - Fixed fault 0x1901 seen when running Unmap IO’s during task aborts for a SATA drive (SCGCQ00711858) - Fixed issue where system gets hung & reboot while running IO's along with diag reset on the Controller which has Active and Inactive volumes. (SCGCQ00714125) - Fixed issue where cards would fault with 58B4 on power up due to incorrect SERDES setting (SCGCQ00728903) - Fixed WRITE SAME(10) and WRITE SAME(16) SCSI commands fail on last LBA of SATA Drive, incorrectly reporting logical block out of range. (SCGCQ00703433) - Fixed fault 0x4203 when WRITE AND VERIFY (16) command us executed to SATA Drive for LBA Out of Range (SCGCQ00705320) - Fixed issue where ATA Translation of sector count in sense data is inconsistent for READ DMA pass-through cmd (SCGCQ00712688) - Fixed issue where CLI command to dump L1 data cache causes 0x265D fault (SCGCQ00715317) - Fixed SATA Init problem causing 0x6230 controller fault (SCGCQ00683795) - Fixed fault 0x265D hit when booting controller with attached enclosure (SCGCQ00709712) - Fixed issue where Negotiated Physical Link Rate in SAS IO Unit Page 0 may not be correct after pulling a cable (SCGCQ00696408) - Fixed issue in NVDATA where SGPIO PHYs reversed (SCGCQ00750746) - Fixed I2C slave status interrupt not always cleared with I2C Write operation (SCGCQ00731646)
Firmware Enhancements: - Improved implementation of SCSI transport layer (SATL) handling while the SATA drive is in security 'frozen' state (SCGCQ00549302) - SCSI Transport Layer: Indicate support for the ATA Device Server Password security protocol (SCGCQ00625580) - IO Processor Target Mode performance improvements (SCGCQ00685827)
UEFI Fixes: - Fixed issue where the navigation of HII screens was very slow when no drives are connected to an expander (SCGCQ00569123) - Reduce the boot time for UEFI driver for large configurations. Fixes a falsely reported Backup GPT corruption. (SCGCQ00498101) (RETAIN Tip H212119) - Fixed issue where HII configuration utility did not print the complete SAS address (SCGCQ00709781) - Fixed issue where View Physical Disk Properties screen on HII was not showing correct disk details (connector:encl:slot) when more than 8 disks are directly attached. (SCGCQ00691104)
UEFI Enhancements: - Obtain the Physical Slot number from the PCI Bridge first and use fall back to SMBIOS table if unable retrieve slot number from PCI Bridge. (SCGCQ00498095) - Retry Test Unit Ready command if drive foes not respond on first try. (SCGCQ00518198) - Adding a small delay (2 seconds) to get proper operation status after starting an operation (like consistency check) in HII (SCGCQ00621480) - Enhanced HII configuration utility to display tape drive information (SCGCQ00700835)
BIOS Fixes: - Fixed issue where the system boot hangs when Legacy BIOS is disabled (using HII) on certain UEFI systems. (SCGCQ00637088) - Fixed issue where the Legacy BIOS failed to detect certain large capacity SAS drives (SCGCQ00696486)
BIOS Enhancements: - Support configurable timeout for Start Stop Unit Command. (SCGCQ00694336)
Version 1.09.04 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 08.21.06.00 09.00.02.00 10.00.00.00
Fixes: - Fixed issue where HDD removal not properly reported as Target Device missing when attached to adapter through an expander. (SCGCQ00777858) - Fixed issue where Fault State (0x265d) is observed in driver logs while connecting an enclosure with fully populated SATA drives (SCGCQ00856085) - Fixed issue where 0x7C54 fault seen during I/T switching (SCGCQ00847013) - Fixed issue where certain drive pull scenarios result in longer time to discovery running (~3+ seconds) (SCGCQ00843759) - Improved PCIe Config operation handling to avoid 0x0D03 faults (SCGCQ00836878) - Fixed issue where controller could fault with 0x4A00 during link break (SCGCQ00793956) - Fixed the occurrence of fault 0x1708, when a free MID is attempted to be failed to the host. (SCGCQ00826420) - Fixed occurrence of fault 0x5814/0x5813 while handling Task Management during IO Timeout (SCGCQ00865024) - Fixed issue where SATA drive with slow spin up can cause IO timeout in Linux. (SCGCQ00869554) - Fixed system hang after adapter reset with heavy IO load (SCGCQ00877099) - Fixed issue with slow BIOS interface response with certain hardware e nvironments (SCGCQ00888867) - Fixed UEFI issue where in an environment with multi-lun devices where lun size varies, backup GPT corruption can occur (SCGCQ00907441)
Enhancements: - In BIOS added a new field to Device Properties called "Logical Sector Size". The possible values are 512B, 4K and Unknown. (SCGCQ00887338) - Improved the response time in UEFI HII utility for SAS3 IT/IR Controllers (SCGCQ00821793)
Version 1.07 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 08.15.01.00 07.00.01.00 08.00.00.00 Firmware:
Fixes: - Fixed issue where 0xD025 fault appeared while running non-FastPath I/O to SATA disk with outstanding FastPath I/Os to SAS disk (SCGCQ00604668) - Fixed fault 0xD071 while running stress and glitching all 4 phys as part of a cable break test. (SCGCQ00590502) - Fixed MPI Power Management Global Request Change to Reduced or Standby state results in "Operation State Not Supported" or "IOC Busy" (SCGCQ00584284) - Fixed issue where when transitioning MPI Power Management speed from lower to higher rate the command falsely reported as successful (SCGCQ00584288) - Fixed issue with mixture of FastPath IO's and standard firmware path IO's timing out on SATA disks (SCGCQ00576190) - Fixed SATA only issue where Multiple 'Write Verify' SCSI commands with zero data length leads to f/w fault (0x4203 or 0x4C31). (SCGCQ00549293) - Fixed fault 0x6230 while disabling expander phys and running stress in multi-path failover environment (SCGCQ00692652) (SCGCQ00699059) - Fixed various conditions causing 0x6230 fault when cable breaking (SCGCQ00669775) (SCGCQ00699057) (SCGCQ00643835) - Fixed issue where rapid successive controller resets would cause HBA to stop responding on the PCIe bus (SCGCQ00556766) - Fixed issue where when phy power management is enabled, TARGET RESET function fails yet command is reported a success. (SCGCQ00570820) - Fixed issue where PCIe Link Down can cause transmit margin field to not reset resulting in PCIe validation tests failing (SCGCQ00663185) - Fixed issue where SCSI command is not failed with expected response when SATA drive undergoing a format operation and reserved fields are set as Non-Zero value (SCGCQ00679566) - Fixed issue where read log ext command wasn't issued by PL FW to recover from error during the failure of write verify command (SCGCQ00675166) - Fixed IOC fault state 0x1609 caused by Message Unit Reset (SCGCQ00582515) - Fixed issue where SAS Phy page 1 and 2 error counters wrap around when maximum values are reached. (SCGCQ00651231) - Fixed fault 0x265D when running large block IO with higher Qdepth (SCGCQ00600832) - Fixed issue in Transport Layer Retries Code causing 0x265D and 0x0501 faults (SCGCQ00609576) - Fixed issue where Bad TLB entry causes 0x26B5 fault in IT/IR firmware (SCGCQ00629210) - Fixed 0x6828 fault when using large CDB (SCGCQ00614498) - Fixed fault 0x1901 seen when running Unmap IO’s during task aborts for a SATA drive (SCGCQ00711858) - Fixed issue where system gets hung & reboot while running IO's along with diag reset on the Controller which has Active and Inactive volumes. (SCGCQ00714125) - Fixed issue where cards would fault with 58B4 on power up due to incorrect SERDES setting (SCGCQ00728903) - Fixed WRITE SAME(10) and WRITE SAME(16) SCSI commands fail on last LBA of SATA Drive, incorrectly reporting logical block out of range. (SCGCQ00703433) - Fixed fault 0x4203 when WRITE AND VERIFY (16) command us executed to SATA Drive for LBA Out of Range (SCGCQ00705320) - Fixed issue where ATA Translation of sector count in sense data is inconsistent for READ DMA pass-through cmd (SCGCQ00712688) - Fixed issue where CLI command to dump L1 data cache causes 0x265D fault (SCGCQ00715317) - Fixed SATA Init problem causing 0x6230 controller fault (SCGCQ00683795) - Fixed fault 0x265D hit when booting controller with attached enclosure (SCGCQ00709712) - Fixed issue where Negotiated Physical Link Rate in SAS IO Unit Page 0 may not be correct after pulling a cable (SCGCQ00696408) - Fixed issue in NVDATA where SGPIO PHYs reversed (SCGCQ00750746) - Fixed I2C slave status interrupt not always cleared with I2C Write operation (SCGCQ00731646)
Enhancements: - Improved implementation of SCSI transport layer (SATL) handling while the SATA drive is in security 'frozen' state (SCGCQ00549302) - SCSI Transport Layer: Indicate support for the ATA Device Server Password security protocol (SCGCQ00625580) - IO Processor Target Mode performance improvements (SCGCQ00685827)
UEFI:
Fixes: - Fixed issue where the navigation of HII screens was very slow when no drives are connected to an expander (SCGCQ00569123) - Reduce the boot time for UEFI driver for large configurations (SCGCQ00498101) - Fixed issue where HII configuration utility did not print the complete SAS address (SCGCQ00709781) - Fixed issue where View Physical Disk Properties screen on HII was not showing correct disk details (connector:encl:slot) when more than 8 disks are directly attached. (SCGCQ00691104)
Enhancements: - Obtain the Physical Slot number from the PCI Bridge first and use fall back to SMBIOS table if unable retrieve slot number from PCI Bridge. (SCGCQ00498095) - Retry Test Unit Ready command if drive foes not respond on first try. (SCGCQ00518198) - Adding a small delay (2 seconds) to get proper operation status after starting an operation (like consistency check) in HII (SCGCQ00621480) - Enhanced HII configuration utility to display tape drive information (SCGCQ00700835)
BIOS:
Fixes: - Fixed issue where the system boot hangs when Legacy BIOS is disabled (using HII) on certain UEFI systems. (SCGCQ00637088) - Fixed issue where the Legacy BIOS failed to detect certain large capacity SAS drives (SCGCQ00696486)
Enhancements: - Support configurable timeout for Start Stop Unit Command. (SCGCQ00694336)
Ehhanncements: - Add support for N2225 and N2226 SAS/SATA HBA Controllers Fixes: - Fixed an issue where SAS SSDs may not show up in the uEFI configuration Utility (HII)
BIOS/FW/UEFI Update for IBM N2115 SAS/SATA Controller
Controller Supported: IBM N2115 SAS/SATA Controller (46C8989)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 1.20 - Non-Critical ------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 7.39.00.00 20.00.02.00 7.27.04.00 Enhancements: - Added System X agentless support - Indicate support for the ATA Device Server Password security protocol - Allow UEFI and BIOS to be Enabled/Disabled individually - Added ConnectorName and EnclosureLevel fields to SAS Device Page 0 to help identify physical location of a target device - Set SATA HOLD threshold to be configurable in NVDATA - If HW can gets into a stuck state, clear that state upon break received.
Fixes: - Set SAS drives to track bad blocks using a bad block table rather than using a SCSI Write Long. - Fixed DMAGroup performance issue. - Fixed issue with Phase 18 IR FW boot a RAID volume (such as raid 10), 2308 bootup hangs at OROM "Initializing.." and fault 8803 seen. - Fixed report Luns command to a SATA drive fails with CheckCondition/Invalid Field in CDB when Allocation length set to Zero. - Fixed issue where Raid Accelerator IOs can hang if the stream of IOs suddenly stops. - Fixed issue where an invalid frame sent during a PIO-mode SATA passthrough command results in resetting the drive. - Fixed issue where lots of NCQ I/O error messages were reported. - Fixed issue where certain PCIe timeouts occur in the presence of link unavailable, and a hang condition or data corruption can occur. - Fixed issue where system hangs after adapter reset with heavy IO load. - Fixed issue where access to Last Logical Block Address (LBA) of SATA Drive is Prevented and LBA out Of range by one block is missed. - Made change to deal with link getting stuck and causing missing drives. - Fixed IR issue where page header information is not filled in when RAID PHYS DISK PAGE 0 is returned for a non-RAID Disk drive. - Fixed issue where controller hits 0x265d fault while creating volume when there is an inactive volume. - DID_SOFT_ERRORs are seen when hot plug is performed on the RAID1 volume along with IOs. - Fixed issue where system gets hung and reboots while running IO's along with diag reset on the Controller which has active and inactive volumes. - Fixed latency spikes seen during performance testing on OEM system - MPI 2.5: distribute target command buffers received across multiple reply queues. - Fixed issue where command sas2flash -dflash results in a non-functional system. - Fixed issue where internal device reset storm after controller reset using long CDB. - Fixed 0x6003 Fault Due to Task Management of Lost IO - Fixed 0x58A1 fault occurs on partner controller while issuing MUR to a target mode controller with outstanding IOs. - Fixed issue where IO error and stop when hot plug a HDD from RAID1 - Fixed issue where fault 8901 is seen once the volume is roamed.
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where 4k sector size drives with 512e reporting enabled show wrong physical size when running a read capacity 16 command. - Fixed an issue where speed negotiation for 3Gig SATA drives is not handled properly. - Added Support for Report Luns Command - Fixed an issue where OS hang during install of Linux system to a SSD - Fixed an issue where SAS device page 0 may still be present for Initiator devices that have been removed from the topology. - Fixed an issue where RHEL 6.3 hangs during boot with IBM 600GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter - Fixed an issue where a non-PI volume made up of all PI capable drives, may come up as PI enabled after a controller reset. - Fixed an issue where a fault 0X8808 occurs when a reset is issued to the controller that has max number of active/inactive volumes - Fixed an issue where "Device Present" Flag of SAS device page0 is not set for initiator controller in then target controller when two controllers are connected to each other in initiator/target mode. - Fixed an issue where extended tags and PCIe upconfigure capability are disabled in SAS2208 and SAS2308. - Fixed an issue where force full discovery does not trigger rediscovery of an expander after the initial expander discovery fails. - Fixed an issue where single RAID0 volume activation was succeeding, even though controller does not support single drive RAID0. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume of Non-PI drives moves to optimal state when a PI drive is hotplugged and 'Enable PI mixing' not enabled. - Fixed an issue where Locate LED's stop automatically after 3-4 minutes before user issues command to turn off the Locate LED's. - Fixed an issue where fault 0x8618 is seen when a new volume is created in the presence of another volume which is undergoing resync along with IO. - Fixed an issue background initialization does not start on RAID0 volume with PI drives, after removing and reinserting a volume member.
BIOS - Fixed an issue where core BIOS displays warning message when it fails to add all of the drives connected to int13 chain, then waits for user to press any key to continue further, rather than continuing after 3 seconds. - Fixed an issue where incorrect adapter is being tagged as the first adapter found. - Fixed an issue where the save or discard changes prompt appears after a failed attempt to set volume as the boot device in BIOS CU. - Fixed an issue where BIOS CU provides incorrect device pointer when checking for raid disk to allow/disallow setting boot device. - Fixed an issue where device properties screen is invoked from a direct attach device using Alt+D in SAS topology screen, device traversing [Alt+N & Alt+P] is restricted within the direct attach device and expander attach devices are not traversed. - Fixed an issue where the drive status field does not show 'Max dsks' when trying to select 11th drive for RAID10 volume. - Fixed an issue maximum Int13 devices settings does not get honored, when the value is set as 0 in BIOS CU - Fixed an issue where drive size of 1.088GiB was showing as 1.880GiB. - Fixed an issue current boot device set to device at slot 4" message Not displaying for Adaptors with boot order other than 0. - Fixed an issue where the BIOS CU navigates to create new volume screen instead of back to raid properties screen. - Fixed an issue where BIOS banner showed 'FF' for slot information. - Fixed an issue where the drive's SMART status is always shown as no irrespective of drive's SMART status, under Pred Fail column of the manage hot spare screen and create new volume screen. - Fixed an issue where SAS2 BIOS: volume size shows inconsistent value in the create new volume' screen after selecting the last volume member. - Fixed an issue where a disabled adapter causes the second adapter status to show as unavailable even though the second adapter is enabled. Uefi Enhancement 1/2 - Added capability to create an IR RAID volume in non-PI mode, even when all member drives are PI Capable. - Added PI info and ability to control creation of PI Volume in UCM of BSD HII. - Added new form manage PHY settings to support enabling or disabling of a controller PH Fixes: - Fixed an issue view foreign volume option is disabled with a foreign volume in the configuration.
BIOS/FW/UEFI Update for IBM N2125 SAS/SATA Controller
Controller Supported: IBM N2125 SAS/SATA Controller (46C9011)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 1.20 - Non-Critical ------------- Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver 7.39.00.00 20.00.02.00 7.27.04.00 Enhancements: - Added System X agentless support - Indicate support for the ATA Device Server Password security protocol - Allow UEFI and BIOS to be Enabled/Disabled individually - Added ConnectorName and EnclosureLevel fields to SAS Device Page 0 to help identify physical location of a target device - Set SATA HOLD threshold to be configurable in NVDATA - If HW can gets into a stuck state, clear that state upon break received.
Fixes: - Set SAS drives to track bad blocks using a bad block table rather than using a SCSI Write Long. - Fixed DMAGroup performance issue. - Fixed issue with Phase 18 IR FW boot a RAID volume (such as raid 10), 2308 bootup hangs at OROM "Initializing.." and fault 8803 seen. - Fixed report Luns command to a SATA drive fails with CheckCondition/Invalid Field in CDB when Allocation length set to Zero. - Fixed issue where Raid Accelerator IOs can hang if the stream of IOs suddenly stops. - Fixed issue where an invalid frame sent during a PIO-mode SATA passthrough command results in resetting the drive. - Fixed issue where lots of NCQ I/O error messages were reported. - Fixed issue where certain PCIe timeouts occur in the presence of link unavailable, and a hang condition or data corruption can occur. - Fixed issue where system hangs after adapter reset with heavy IO load. - Fixed issue where access to Last Logical Block Address (LBA) of SATA Drive is Prevented and LBA out Of range by one block is missed. - Made change to deal with link getting stuck and causing missing drives. - Fixed IR issue where page header information is not filled in when RAID PHYS DISK PAGE 0 is returned for a non-RAID Disk drive. - Fixed issue where controller hits 0x265d fault while creating volume when there is an inactive volume. - DID_SOFT_ERRORs are seen when hot plug is performed on the RAID1 volume along with IOs. - Fixed issue where system gets hung and reboots while running IO's along with diag reset on the Controller which has active and inactive volumes. - Fixed latency spikes seen during performance testing on OEM system - MPI 2.5: distribute target command buffers received across multiple reply queues. - Fixed issue where command sas2flash -dflash results in a non-functional system. - Fixed issue where internal device reset storm after controller reset using long CDB. - Fixed 0x6003 Fault Due to Task Management of Lost IO - Fixed 0x58A1 fault occurs on partner controller while issuing MUR to a target mode controller with outstanding IOs. - Fixed issue where IO error and stop when hot plug a HDD from RAID1 - Fixed issue where fault 8901 is seen once the volume is roamed.
Enhancement - Reduce the boot time for UEFI driver for large configurations Fixes: - Fixed an issue that caused the Integrated Management Module (iMM) in System x servers to report Warning: Sensor GPT Status has transitioned from normal to non-critical state. - Fixed an issue where 4k sector size drives with 512e reporting enabled show wrong physical size when running a read capacity 16 command. - Fixed an issue where speed negotiation for 3Gig SATA drives is not handled properly. - Added Support for Report Luns Command - Fixed an issue where OS hang during install of Linux system to a SSD - Fixed an issue where SAS device page 0 may still be present for Initiator devices that have been removed from the topology. - Fixed an issue where RHEL 6.3 hangs during boot with IBM 600GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter - Fixed an issue where a non-PI volume made up of all PI capable drives, may come up as PI enabled after a controller reset. - Fixed an issue where a fault 0X8808 occurs when a reset is issued to the controller that has max number of active/inactive volumes - Fixed an issue where "Device Present" Flag of SAS device page0 is not set for initiator controller in then target controller when two controllers are connected to each other in initiator/target mode. - Fixed an issue where extended tags and PCIe upconfigure capability are disabled in SAS2208 and SAS2308. - Fixed an issue where force full discovery does not trigger rediscovery of an expander after the initial expander discovery fails. - Fixed an issue where single RAID0 volume activation was succeeding, even though controller does not support single drive RAID0. - Fixed an issue where RAID1 volume of Non-PI drives moves to optimal state when a PI drive is hotplugged and 'Enable PI mixing' not enabled. - Fixed an issue where Locate LED's stop automatically after 3-4 minutes before user issues command to turn off the Locate LED's. - Fixed an issue where fault 0x8618 is seen when a new volume is created in the presence of another volume which is undergoing resync along with IO. - Fixed an issue background initialization does not start on RAID0 volume with PI drives, after removing and reinserting a volume member.
BIOS - Fixed an issue where core BIOS displays warning message when it fails to add all of the drives connected to int13 chain, then waits for user to press any key to continue further, rather than continuing after 3 seconds. - Fixed an issue where incorrect adapter is being tagged as the first adapter found. - Fixed an issue where the save or discard changes prompt appears after a failed attempt to set volume as the boot device in BIOS CU. - Fixed an issue where BIOS CU provides incorrect device pointer when checking for raid disk to allow/disallow setting boot device. - Fixed an issue where device properties screen is invoked from a direct attach device using Alt+D in SAS topology screen, device traversing [Alt+N & Alt+P] is restricted within the direct attach device and expander attach devices are not traversed. - Fixed an issue where the drive status field does not show 'Max dsks' when trying to select 11th drive for RAID10 volume. - Fixed an issue maximum Int13 devices settings does not get honored, when the value is set as 0 in BIOS CU - Fixed an issue where drive size of 1.088GiB was showing as 1.880GiB. - Fixed an issue current boot device set to device at slot 4" message Not displaying for Adaptors with boot order other than 0. - Fixed an issue where the BIOS CU navigates to create new volume screen instead of back to raid properties screen. - Fixed an issue where BIOS banner showed 'FF' for slot information. - Fixed an issue where the drive's SMART status is always shown as no irrespective of drive's SMART status, under Pred Fail column of the manage hot spare screen and create new volume screen. - Fixed an issue where SAS2 BIOS: volume size shows inconsistent value in the create new volume' screen after selecting the last volume member. - Fixed an issue where a disabled adapter causes the second adapter status to show as unavailable even though the second adapter is enabled. Uefi Enhancement 1/2 - Added capability to create an IR RAID volume in non-PI mode, even when all member drives are PI Capable. - Added PI info and ability to control creation of PI Volume in UCM of BSD HII. - Added new form manage PHY settings to support enabling or disabling of a controller PH Fixes: - Fixed an issue view foreign volume option is disabled with a foreign volume in the configuration.
=============================================================================== Emulex FC Device Driver for Windows ===============================================================================
Device Driver Version: 10.4.246.0 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - System crashes when running a diagnostic Quick test on a disabled port if port hasn't been reset yet
Incremental Interoperability - Improved debug capability in driver logging - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Device Driver Version: 10.2.261.4 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - ABTS sent by tape device ignored by HBA - BSOD issue during CPU Hot replace test - XE102/XE104 - OCManager reports link down on both ports
Incremental Interoperability: - Crosslink & Express Lane on LPe16k based solutions
Device Driver Version: 10.0.720.0 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Concurrent Hardware and Operating System (CHAOS) Test fails in XE-10x 10G - Extloopback command not supported with LPe16000 adapters with 16Gb link speed - Windows FC driver bug with Data Domain virtual tape library
Device Driver Version: 2.74.016.001 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Cleaned up a variety of corner case issues to avoid BSODs - Fixed IOCTL encounter bug-chk on BE3 during NPIV tests - Fixed reporting incorrect error code when creating vport on a switch without NPIV supported - Updated the default model name for 16G HBAs
Device Driver version: 2.74.009.001 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Clean up non-critical legacy FC and uCNA incompatibilities - LUN masking doesn't persist after reboot - Emulex GUI crashes when closing a running Upgrade utility and re-open it in 802.3 configuration with IP or MAC - Several bugs related to creation or deletion of vports
Incremental Interoperability: - Windows 2012 - Improved debug capabilities - Tighter integration with MS Windows Design Kit
Device Driver Version: 2.70.018 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Fixed sending ABTS continuously to Flogi issue - Fixed reset and link bounce issues for SLI4 FC public loop - Added support for ABTS timeout handling for both SLI3 and SLI4 - Fixed loopback test incorrectly dropping the loopback frame in SLI4 - Fixed exchange management issue in SLI4 CT receive path causing array overflow - Fixed firmware version update issue following download in link up state - Fixed problem in init_vfi completion handler that stalled fabric login on BE FCoE FW - Fixed problem that caused OCM ELS Echo Test to fail - Fixed the loopback test issue in recovering from error condition - Add persistent link down support for SLI4 FC - Fix DFC_IssueDumpMBox to manage request type 3 which includes link select option - Modified reinitialization sequence following reset to fix discovery failure post type 1 or type 3 reset - Fixed new firmware dump issue
ServeRAID M and MR10 Series SAS Controller Driver for Windows Server 2012R2/2012/2008R2/2008
Adapters Supported: ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (46C9114) ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM Flex System (90Y4390) ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4481) ServeRAID M5110e SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x ServeRAID M5120 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4478) ServeRAID M5016 SAS/SATA Controller (90Y4304) ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0829) ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0916) ServeRAID M5025 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0830) ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System X (81Y4448) ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0831) IBM ServeRAID-MR10ie (CIOv) SAS Controller for BladeCenter (46C7167) IBM ServeRAID MR10is SAS Controller (44E8695) IBM ServeRAID MR10il SAS Controller (44E8767) IBM ServeRAID MR10M SAS Controller (43W4339) IBM ServeRAID MR10i SAS Controller (43W4296) IBM ServeRAID MR10k SAS Controller (43W4280)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN TIP #NA
Version 6.708.09.00 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------------- Fixes - Incorporated MR6.8 driver stream - Fixed an issue where the storport driver could touch Dma32BitAddresses when it should not (SCGCQ00789403) - Fixed an issue where a "Driver detected possible FW hang, halting FW" error may occur during S3 sleep/resume (SCGCQ00840279) - Fixed an issue where newly-converted JBOD drives may not be presented to the OS (SCGCQ00824116) - Fixed an issue where Windows may enter a bootloop after upgrading driver with "Host driver needs to be upgraded to enable extended LD support" in the controller event log (SCGCQ00819305) - Fixed an issue where controller may take a long time to perform Online Controller Reset (SCGCQ00824414, SCGCQ00850132) - Fixed an issue where hibernation may result in BSOD with bugcheck A0 in Windows 2012 R2 (SCGCQ00827000) - Fixed an issue where an unexpected shutdown/reboot may occur during attempt of S4 sleep (SCGCQ00837484) - Fixed an issue where hibernation/dump cases may fail (SCGCQ00790690) - Fixed an issue where an error referencing "line 1276 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c" may occur during Online Controller Reset with JBODs present (SCGCQ00829169) - Fixed an issue where IO may be coalesced even if coalescing is disabled (SCGCQ00838379) - Fixed an issue where the system may BSOD/reboot when a drive is made offline via MSM (SCGCQ00889336) - Fixed an issue where the system may hang or BSOD when performing a firmware update with Online Controller Reset afterwards (SCGCQ00881576) - Fixed an issue where a dirty shutdown could result in false Automatic Event Notifications occurring on next boot (SCGCQ00795404)
Enhancements - Added support for new Windows event logging within the driver (SCGCQ00498613) - Enabled support windows driver sending 1MB IO transfers to firmware (SCGCQ00816315) - Added a feature where an MFI command timeout is handled with an Online Controller Reset (SCGCQ00806523) - Updated queue depth calculation so the queue depth is split equally among LDs and PDs (SCGCQ00818399) - Added support for logging Critical events in Windows Event Logger (SCGCQ00878364)
Version 6.706.06.00 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence --------------------- Fixes: - Incorporated MegaRAID 6.6 Windows driver stream - Fixed an issue where write performance dropped in Write-Through mode, and read performance dropped in some situations (SCGCQ00751029) - Fixed an issue where Windows might BSOD on reboot after updating to out of box driver version 6.704.12.00 (SCGCQ00793073)
Enhancements: - Added MFI_STAT_CONFIG_SEQ_MISMATCH handling in drivers (SCGCQ00651432) - Added ability to read PCI Domain/Segment information via StoreLib (SCGCQ00712490) - Added ability for driver to differentiate between FastPath IO and LD IO in the PendingIOQueue (SCGCQ00726747) - Added support for 1MB IO if the firmware supports it as well (SCGCQ00712518) - Added support for Self-Encrypting Drives in JBOD mode (SCGCQ00711558) - Added support for ServeRAID M5225, M5110e
Version 6.704.12.00 - Suggested --------------------- Enhancement(s): - Implement PnP ID for 2208 ROMB
Version 6.702.07.00 - Suggested --------------------- Technical Note: - IBM recommend using device driver version 6.600.25.0 with ServeRAID M5110, M5110e and M5016 SAS/SATA controllers as we are currently investigating an issue which causes a fatal firmware error.
Enhancement(s): - Added support for IBM ServeRAID M1210e, M1215 and M5225-2GB SAS/SATA Controllers
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where IO errors could occur while running IO operations on JBODs. - Fixed an issue where device driver is coalescing across stripe resulting in performance degradation. - Fixed an issue where device driver timer not setting back to zero after proper timeout period. - Fixed an issue with M5000 series controller where blue screen occurs on triggering online controller rate reset - Fixed an issue where fileversion and productversion in driver properties do not sync up. - Fixed an issue where IO operations are still blocked, after online controller rate reset.
Version 6.600.25.00-3 - Suggested --------------------- Enhancement(s): - Add support for Windows Server 2012R2
Version 6.600.25.00 - Suggested ------------------- Enhancement(s): - Add support for ServeRAID M5210e and ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controllers - Fixed an issue where the IO command timeout value for TAPE devices need to be set from OS instead of default timeout value of CUDA. - Fixed an issue where the system hangs on removing the SSD-cache virtual disk while IO is running. - Fixed an issue where INTERRUPT EXCEPTION is not handled. - Fixed an issue where the system crash during sequence reads. - Fixed an issue where the hibernation (s4 sleep state) is not working on Windows Server 2012. - Added Multiphase Resume Feature For Windows 2012 driver. - Modified driver to boot the system to iMR mode if NVRAM is not initialized. - Fixed an issue where Hardware Malfunction BSOD occurs in Windows during second rebuild. - Fixed an issue where performance drop in 256 KB sequence writes by driver. - Fixed an issue where BSOD occurs while creating R10 with spundown drives. - Updated qdepth for jbods min and max values. - Added support for setting the queue depth dynamically for physical disks based on the number of configured devices (JBOD) in iMR firmware. - Fixed an issue where WHQL sleep stress test fails with device driver 5.2.127 - Fixed CrashDump issue in JBOD Mode. - Added JBOD FastPath IO support for SysPD - Fixed an issue where the windows driver was unable to process more than 20 outstanding commands per disk. - Added 4K sector support for Windows 2012
Version 6.506.01 - Suggested --------------- Enhancement(s): - Device diver modified to allow the user to enable and disable online controller reset rate (OCR) without a reboot being required.
Version 5.2.135 - --------------- Enhancement: - Initial release for Windows Server 2012.
Version 5.2.127-1 - Suggested --------------- Enhancement: - Added support for IBM Flex System Storage Expansion Node Note: Device driver version is still 5.2.127.
Version 5.2.127 - Suggested --------------- Fixes - Fixed an issue while updating Win2k8x32 driver the user will get the following error "This device can not start (Code 10)." message - Fixed an issue where MSM 12.01.03.00 alerts are not giving proper windows version. - Fixed an issue where the driver was setting the region lock type even when firmware informs driver to bypass lock. - Fixed Sequential Write performance - Fixed an issue where I/Os stop sporadically with outstanding I/Os. - Changed the behavior of the driver to not send srb flush down by default; it manually checks the inf file for the device ids or on a system with these devices. - Fixed an issue where Windows LSI Driver megasas2.sys has inconsistent File version.
Version 5.2.112 - Suggested --------------- Fixes - Addressed Event 11 error in Windows system event log in Multipath configuration with Windows 2003. - Fixed issue where an Event 11 error will log in the Windows 2008 system event log during a warm or cold reboot. (RETAIN TIP H204972) - Fixed BSOD, RQ_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL, which can during heavy IO in large RAID 6 configurations.
Version 5.2.103 - Suggested -------------- Enhancements - Added support for ServeRAID M5016 - Added support for Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Fixes - LSI Channel fixes
Version 4.36.0 - Non-critical -------------- Fixes - Fixed issue where Windows 2003/2008 will blue screen during heavy periods of I/O - Fixed issue where a yellow bang will occur in Windows device manager when using the EXP2512/2524
Version 4.35.0 - Non-critical -------------- Enhancements - Enhancement for online controller reset support for 1078 (ServeRAID MR10x) controllers
Fixes - Fix issue where the application-DeviceIoctl would request sense IO, and device would generate sense information, which would get transferred to a wrong address. - Fixed issue where some servers will hang on shutdown of Windows due to Power SRB handling - Fixed verification at 0xC4 with verifier handling violation due to mmMIOspace call from miniport driver. - Fixed iMR performance problem with multiple virtual drives by allowing the driver to send SCSI status as task full. - Fix order IO coalescing.
Version 4.32a - Non-critical -------------- - Fixed issue with "Extract to Hard Drive" option
Version 4.32.0 - Non-critical -------------- - Fixed issue on Windows 2003 where after shutdown the user will see unexpected shutdown message in the next reboot due to driver not unregistering CPX interface. - Fixed issue where the ServeRAID M1015 will hang when performing OCR with IO with a degraded RAID 1 or rebuilding RAID 1 array. - Fixed issue where the ServeRAID M1015 will hang when performing OCR with IO on RAID 1 and RAID 5 arrays. - Fixed issue where BSOD error occurs, “DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE STOP: 9F,” during Windows 2008-R2 installation and before first reboot.
Version 4.24.0 - Non-critical -------------- Enhancements - Added support for ServeRAID M5025.
Fixes - Fixed issue with Event ID 51 messages - Fixed issue where the Operating System hangs during reboot after stopping IO and clearing config. - Fixed issue with command Timeout to driver. - Fixed issue where the file system view shown as 'RAW' instead of 'NTFS/FAT' - Fixed issue where an adapter reset would cause a BSOD
Version 4.17.2 - Non-critical -------------- - Added support for ServeRAID M1015. - Implemented some performance enhancements to support ServeRAID M1015 controller. - Fixed an issue where the system could hang when a virtual disk is deleted or a configuration is cleared during heavy I/O.
Version 4.13 - Non-critical ------------ - Added logic to support next-gen SAS2 controllers. - Added support for the ServeRAID M5015 and M5014 SAS/SATA controllers.
Version 3.9 - Suggested ----------- - Added support for the IBM ServeRAID MR10ie (CIOv) SAS controller. - Added support for MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) to the Windows Server 2008 driver. - Fixed an issue that could cause a system freeze when a system shutdown is initiated while the system is under heavy I/O stress.
Version 2.23 - Suggested ------------ - Added support for the IBM ServeRAID MR10is SAS controller. - Fixed an issue where, after a firmware hang, the driver would completely halt the firmware, resulting in the rejection of all additional commands. - Fixed an issue where the OS on the first controller would become unstable after the second controller encounters a double bit ECC error. - Changed the signing process to ensure that the digital signature would not expire.
Version 2.20 - Suggested ------------ - Added support for the IBM ServeRAID MR10il SAS controller. - Added support for Windows Server 2008. - Implemented several changes to prevent ISR calls at certain times. - Fixed a text issue in the INF file. - Fixed an issue where S3 Standby would delay and sometimes fail during resume from Sleep state.
Version 2.17 - Suggested ------------ - Added support the IBM ServeRAID MR10i, MR10k, and MR10M SAS controllers.
Version 1.24 - Suggested ------------ - Forced the PnP Manager to rescan the bus once "Dead Adapter" is set. This prevents a manual rescan, as well as preventing I/O retries which fill up the event log. - Modified the driver so that it will no longer allow any commands to go to the firmware once the restart timer is on.
Version 1.23 - Suggested ------------ - Implemented EnableDma64BitAddresses argument, which allows the driver to support 64-bit DMA addressing regardless of whether the system supports 64-bit addressing. - Fixed an issue where the driver was not updating the dataTransferLength value, which caused missed comparesions between the dataTransferLength value returned by the driver and the value returned by the firmware.
ibm_dd_sraidmr_6_708_09_00_windows_32-64_chg
=============================================================================== Emulex 16GB FC Firmware Package ===============================================================================
Firmware Version: 10.4.303.3 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - VF speed is showing wrongly in ethtool and Ocm. - Firmware download using ethtool -f command is failing with opcode 172-1 failed:status 100-208 - Can not set the DelayDeviceDiscovery to Max (255) by ASU tool - Ports intermittently logging in to Brocade switch as G-Port
Incremental Interoperability: - xHMC event notifications on specific platforms (requires minimum IMM version-please consult Lenovo on the co-requisite) - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Problems Fixed: - Blue screen after firmware flash to with virtualized WWPN
Incremental Interoperability: - xHMC event notifications on specific platforms (requires minimum IMM version-please consult Lenovo on the co-requisite) - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Incremental Interoperability: - Grantley based ITE
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 10.2.377.18 Supported On: System x
Problems Fixed: - Link does not recover during IO + Port Cycling with FW 1.1.43.3 - BIOS versions return multiple values - LPe16k point to point (direct attached) connection not bootable in legacy BIOS - LPe16k point to point (direct attached) connection performance issues in legacy BIOS
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 10.2.261.36 Supported On: IBM System x and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Server will halt on black screen during rolling reboot of Windows 2012 x64 uEFI SANboot - Server intermittently fails to boot during rolling SANboot (any OS) - Fixed a boot hang associated with server BIOS change - Reported firwmare version in CMM is intermittently incorrect - Unable to set pause Flow control when connected to DCBX switch with PFC off - during cable pull testing a 40 second delay in link up experienced with Brocade switch ports - I/O completion and abort completion WQE are generated out of order - Unexpected WCQE in RQ CQ seen in RXRI mode while performing cable pulls
Incremental Interoperability: - Inventory support for the Flex xHMC (Chassis Hardware Management Console) - Crosslink & Express Lane on LPe16k based solutions
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159504)
Firmware Version: 1.1.43.21 Supported On: IBM System x
Incremental Interoperability: - None
Problems Fixed: - Server will halt on black screen during UEFI rolling reboot reboot cycle test with 16Gb HBA under Windows 2012 x64 - Allows installing and booting from an MSA2040 array configured in PT-PT direct mode at 16G speed. We're now able to enable Autoscan and install/boot from multiple OSes - Added support to bypass configuring pnp Boot Table in a multipath situation. Fixes Microsoft Windows Server 2008 bug. - Fixed the "Read Rev Failure" issue during POST to accept "0" address value as a valid. - Fixed the wrong VPD HBA model number display on the banner and properties, and change the proper VPD data field size. - Fixed the timeout issue on Flogi when try to select a HBA device without connecting to a target or FC switch. - System will halt during reboot cycle test under Windows 2012 x64 UEFI - Fixing PCI Function Number decoding issue in BOFM code - Boot fails during SLES11 SP3 rolling reboot - Enable BFS and update the NVRAM if BOFM target is available - Add Diagnostic support for UEFI 16Gb FC - Reconnect menu item causes a System BIOS exit request only on AMI core system BIOS - Adding port's protocol name and WWPN in browser help menu
Firmware Version: 1.1.43.12 Supported On: IBM System x and Flex
Incremental Interoperability: - IBM Flex System FC5052 2-port 16Gb FC Adapter - IBM Flex System FC5054 4-port 16Gb FC Adapter - FC support for support for ASU/Config Patterns for Flex and ASU for IBM System x & BladeCenter - Direct PT - PT connections - Extended SCSI Pass Thru Protocol - IBM Tape unit interoperability - see SSIC for more information - SLES 11.3 on IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Windows 2012 OS will not resume from Sleep mode - Boot Device entries can be lost after exiting from BIOS setup
Firmware Version: 1.1.21.9 Supported On: IBM System x
Incremental Interoperability: - IBM Server machine types. Refer to IBM ServerProven for specifics
Problems Fixed: - Fixed FCP_CONF handling bug - No SRR sent after drop write data frame, I/O fails - Adapter does not invoke recovery after dropped read data frame - I/O throughput performance improvements - Link failover when connected to FC Tape - Cosmetic: Cleaned up miscellaneous error handling messages in debug log files - If a new device comes online and attempts to acquire an AL_PA after the link has already come up, the FC link appears to hang until the cable is pulled - Cleaned up link negotiation at 4GB/8GB/16GB speeds with specific switches
=============================================================================== Emulex iSCSI Device Driver for Windows ===============================================================================
Device Driver Version: 10.4.245.0 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - Crash dump is not getting generated after OS Crash in iSCSI LUN using Skyhawk CNA
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Device Driver Version: 10.2.254.0 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Cleaned up PCI ids in the inf file - iSCSI driver's usage of EQ/CQ/RQ doorbell formats for XE-102 and XE-104 - Mis-match in product version between NIC and iSCSI drivers - Lun Reset/Target Reset can hang under some errors in Windows iSCSI driver - Random crashes while load/unload surf driver
Device Driver Version: 10.0.732.0 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Windows2012 blue screen dpc_watchdog_violation 256 targets during driver disable/enable - Gracefully Handle insufficient buffer ioctl response - Support logging into as many iSCSI targets as the firmware will report - Remove link speed on properties page iSCSI driver - DVL log creation fails for iSCSI driver
Device Driver Version: 4.1.334.0 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Incremental Interoperability: - Initial release for IBM Flex
Problems Fixed: - Logout handling on boot session when multiple sessions exists to the same boot target - Add PCI ID as per Rev 1.18 for Windows iSCSI Driver - Multipath IO fails producing a BSOD - Persistent login to Max targets + 1 from WMI causes a hang - Update Nomad Device Name as per 1.19 for Windows iSCSI drivers - PCI ID: Updates for Endeavor 2 - PCI IDs Rev 1.22
Firmware Version: 2.02x11 Boot Code Version: 5.30a6 Supported On: System x, BladeCenter and Flex
Problems Fixed: - SAN boot stopped working after firmware/boot BIOS upgrade
Incremental Interoperability: - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159225)
Firmware Version: 2.02x11 Boot Code Version: 5.30a3 Supported On: System x, BladeCenter and Flex
Problems Fixed: - None
Incremental Interoperability: - Grantley based ITE
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159225)
Firmware Version: 2.02x11 Boot Code Version: 5.30a3 Supported On: System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - Roll boot code version number to avoid conflict with IBM UXSPi updates
Incremental Interoperability: - Inventory support for the System x xHMC (Chassis Hardware Management Console) for IBM Rack FC HBAs - Grantley Rack Servers
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159225)
Firmware Version: 2.02x11 Boot Code Version: 5.13x4 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Server intermittently fails to boot during rolling SANboot (any OS) - Fixed a boot hang associated with server BIOS change
Incremental Interoperability: - Inventory support for the Flex xHMC (Chassis Hardware Management Console)
Known Issues: - To disable BFS after BOFM or IFM have been enabled, it must be done by setting BFS manually in the EFIBoot config utility or sending a BOFM default command to the port. This is working as expected and we are documenting it here.(159225)
Firmware Version: 2.01a11 Boot Code Version: 5.12a13 Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter
Problems Fixed: - Emulex FC Adapter does not auto-enable SAN boot mode when boot target configuration is made via IFM (BOFM) - Emulex FC configuration utility is in the wrong F1 setup screen - IBM CIOv adapter connected to Brocade 8 Gig FC BladeCenter switch intermittently Links up at less than 8 Gig
Firmware Version 2.01a3 Boot Code Version: 5.12a5 Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter
Incremental Interoperability: - Enhanced timeout notifications for processing abort failures.
Problems Fixed: - All multi-abort I/Os are returned on the same ring from which the ABORT_MXRI command was received. - Changed the TRCV response in the abort state to CMD RJT to enable the TRSP to be processed. - Corrected an issue with blocked TSEND operations. - Corrected a buffer leak issue with RRQ exchanges. - Corrected an issue where the TRCV IOCB was de-queued improperly causing a XFR_RDY flood. - Corrected an issue where the OXID field was not loaded in the XRI_ABORTED IOCB. - Corrected an issue in recognizing whether an EEPROM is present.
=============================================== Change History =============================================== Document Name: Change History Document Status: IBM General Avalibility Document Version: 3.2.5 Latest Driver Version: 3.2.5.0 Document Updated: 09/22/2014 Product: Brocade FC/FCoE/NIC
=================================================
Please visit www.brocade.com/hba for full documentation, additional drivers, and management applications.
Version 3.2.3.0 New Features and Feature Enhancement: - Support for patching firmware via boot image - Support for UEFI Health Check Protocol
Fixes and Enhancements: - Enhanced Windows Network performance
Version 3.2.1.0 New Features and Feature Enhancement: - Support for "IBM Flex System FC5024D 4-port 16Gb FC Adapter" PART_NUMBER "95Y2381"
Fixes and Enhancements: - Enhanced windows Hyper-V driver to avoid a infrequent crash seen during shutdown with VMQ enabled - Included windows 2012 Driver Update Disk (based on windows 2008 R2 DUD)
Version 3.2.0.0 New Features and Feature Enhancement: - BB Credit Recovery - Forward Error Correction (FEC) - Diagnostic Port (D-Port) - LUN Level IO Latency/Stats - UCM (Unified Configuration Manager) - Windows Network Performance and scalability enhancement
Fixes or enhancements: - For Brocade 8x5/4x5, I/O interrupt latency values are dynamically updated. Changes are effective for all the ports on the given adapter. - Addressed infrequent PSOD in VMware ESX with iSCSI or VLAN configured traffic in DCB enabled network. - Enhanced BR1860 Tape IO performance. - Improved BR1860 initialization on Xen kernel.
Version 3.1.0.1 Key features and enhancements supported for the software release 3.1.0.1 include the following:
New Features: - FC-AL support for direct attach to storage - Ability to assign minimum bandwidth to each vNIC - Queue Depth adjustment - FC QoS set by percentage
New Operating System Support: - Windows Server 2012
Fixes or Enhancements: - On Windows 2008 or 2008 R2, resolved an issue where HCM may freeze intermittently when Team(s) or VLAN(s) are configured. - Improved stability with Hyper-V and Teaming configurations. - On Windows 2008 or 2008 R2, resolved an issue that could stall network traffic during heavy traffic load.
Version 3.0.3.0 Initial release for 16G FC Adapter Features - Initial support for Brocade 1867 IBM 16G Mezzanine Fabric Adapter.
HBA - Fibre Channel 16G Support
Fixes and Enhancements: N/A brcd_dd_cna_3_2_5_0_windows_32-64_chg
=============================================================================== Emulex FCoE Device Driver for Windows ===============================================================================
Device Driver Version: 10.4.246.0 Supported On: System x Rack
Problems Fixed: - System crashes when running a diagnostic Quick test on a disabled port if port hasn't been reset yet
Incremental Interoperability - Improved debug capability in driver logging - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products
Device Driver Version: 10.2.261.4 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - ABTS sent by tape device ignored by HBA - BSOD issue during CPU Hot replace test - XE102/XE104 - OCManager reports link down on both ports
Device Driver Version: 10.0.720.0 Supported On: IBM System x
Problems Fixed: - Concurrent Hardware and Operating System (CHAOS) Test fails in XE-10x 10G - Windows FC driver bug with Data Domain virtual tape library
Device Driver Version: 2.74.016.001 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Cleaned up a variety of corner case issues to avoid BSODs - Fixed IOCTL encounter bug-chk on BE3 during NPIV tests - Fixed reporting incorrect error code when creating vport on a switch without NPIV supported - Updated the default model name for 10Gb CNAs and 16G HBAs
Device Driver Version: 2.74.009.001 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Clean up non-critical legacy FC and uCNA incompatibilities - LUN masking doesn't persist after reboot - Emulex GUI crashes when closing a running Upgrade utility and re-open it in 802.3 configuration with IP or MAC - Several bugs related to creation or deletion of vports
Incremental Interoperability: - Windows 2012 - Improved debug capabilities - Tighter integration with MS Windows Design Kit
Device Driver Version: 2.70.018 Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex
Problems Fixed: - Fixed sending ABTS continuously to Flogi issue - Fixed reset and link bounce issues for SLI4 FC public loop - Added support for ABTS timeout handling for both SLI3 and SLI4 - Fixed loopback test incorrectly dropping the loopback frame in SLI4 - Fixed exchange management issue in SLI4 CT receive path causing array overflow - Fixed firmware version update issue following download in link up state - Fixed problem in init_vfi completion handler that stalled fabric login on BE FCoE FW - Fixed problem that caused OCM ELS Echo Test to fail - Fixed the loopback test issue in recovering from error condition - Add persistent link down support for SLI4 FC - Fix DFC_IssueDumpMBox to manage request type 3 which includes link select option - Modified reinitialization sequence following reset to fix discovery failure post type 1 or type 3 reset - Fixed new firmware dump issue
16.03.2015.0324 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence (Suggested) ---------------- Fixes: - Fixed an issue where physical drives failed when medium error is detected during check consistency (SCGCQ00837456) - Fixed an issue where creating second disk group on SWR results in system restarting to blue screen (SCGCQ00833143)
16.03.2014.1127 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence (Suggested) ---------------- Enhancements: - Added support for intel_iommu=on boot parameter when used in conjunction with the latest system uEFI (SCGCQ00752456) (RETAIN TIP H211499)
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where patrol read rate could be set to greater than 100% with StorCLI (SCGCQ00681772) - Fixed an issue where "Event log wrapped" message is seen in MSM before the expected interval of 100 events (SCGCQ00686268) - Fixed an issue where deleting a VD via StorCLI results in a flashing blank cursor (SCGCQ00724011) - Fixed an issue where utilities may allow creation of a partial VD in the same drive group while Rebuild occurring (SCGCQ00599479) - Fixed an issue where a user is unable to stop a rebuild when a patrol read is underway (SCGCQ00642532) - Fixed an issue where VDs with 512b physical sector size physical drives don't appear in applications after reboot (SCGCQ00712657) - Fixed an issue where creation of an R10 with Fast Initialization results in driver crash (SCGCQ00722671) - Fixed an issue where VD created in CTRL-M utility does not appear in HII (SCGCQ00724004) - Fixed an issue where MSM does not show event log messages like "Rebuild Resumes" after waking from hibernation (SCGCQ00503714) - Fixed an issue where creating an R1 will immediate become Failed when using certain drives (SCGCQ00645982) - Fixed an issue where a patrol read may not pause when a Rebuild is initiated (SCGCQ00718392) - Fixed an issue where patrol read may not run on a 3rd VD (SCGCQ00527406) - Fixed an issue where a rebuild may not occur onto a global hotspare (SCGCQ00587732) - Fixed erroneous error messages when a Rebuild is started onto an offline or failed physical drive when a patrol read is occurring (SCGCQ00653283) - Fixed an issue where "Requested command was invalid. Drive was not found" error may occur when attempting to stop a Rebuild (SCGCQ00610098) - Fixed an issue where an erroneous "megaswr[scu]: sense data memory allocation failed" message appears during driver installation (SCGCQ00686229) - Fixed an issue where a Rebuild cannot be aborted (SCGCQ00734493) - Fixed an issue where SMART command data (SATA READ LOG PAGE) is incorrect (SCGCQ00742038) - Fixed an issue where TUR Passthru returns 0x8017 for commands of 0 data length (SCGCQ00742042) - Fixed an issue where Consistency Check will halt on media error (SCGCQ00705046) - Fixed an issue where an R5 VD may not come online after Rebuild completes (SCGCQ00705045) - Fixed an issue where repeated temperature log sense commands issued to drives that do not support the command may cause the megasr driver to crash the system (SCGCQ00726475) - Fixed an issue where system may reboot after selecting Apply when creating a VD without enough drives appropriate for that RAID level (SCGCQ00736118) - Fixed an issue where Write Performance is still low even after enabling the disk's Write Cache (SCGCQ00729387)
15.04.2014.0225- Suggested ---------------- Enhancement: - Add hot spare support in EFI for Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) systems Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the states of failed physical drives are not properly after a system reboot, when AutoResume and AutoRebuild are disabled. - Fixed an issue where locate LED were blinking during rebuild. - Fixed an issue where start init would not execute in EFI shell and displayed, "start FGI not possible". - Fixed an issue where patrol read orn R5 virtual drives does not resume after rebooting in EFI environment. - Fixed an issue where attempting to start patrol read on SSD at virtual drive level gives error message in MSM - Fixed an issue where running multiple consistency check operations in parallel results in the system becoming unresponsive. - Fixed an issue where user sees message, "Please check the configuration and retry the operation," when attempting to change controller adjustable task rates in MSM. - Fixed an issue where unconnected physical drives ports remained disabled after hibernation, keeping hot plugged devices not detectable. - Fixed an issue where when SAS and SATA drives are removed together the system hangs. - Fixed an issue where elapsed times for background consistency check operations are inaccurate when the system is restarted. - Fixed the issue where Read(10) command failed when it reads with SL_SCSI_PASSTHRU to LBA (0xXX92). - Fixed an issue where 15 sec delays occur in MSM due to SoftwareRAID not presenting virtual drives with blocked access policy to the OS.
15.02.2013.1127- Suggested ---------------- Enhancement(s): - Add support for Windows Server 2012 R2. Fix(es): - Fixed an issue where Hii shows "Host Interface" value PCI_E while MSM and StorCli show PCIX.
15.02.2013.0724 - Suggested ---------------- Enhancement: - Implemented Cache policy (Read Policy and Write Policy) in Controller Management and Virtual Drive Management in HII - Added JBOD support for EFI driver
Fix: - Fixed an issue where MSM would not allow adjustable task rates to be modified a second time. - Fixed an issue where warnings were reported when code analysis was executed on Windows 2012 using MS Visual Studio 2012 RC. - Modified txtsetup.oem to reflect proper driver name megasr1.sys instead of megasr.sys - Fixed an issue where the date is showing one day ahead in EFI when compared to BIOS. - Updated device driver to continue to kick start the rebuild process, after a rebuild is started from the OS and the system is rebooted before completion of the rebuild, even when auto-resume is disabled on the controller. - Fixed an issue where the "Host Interface" value is inconsistent in Hii as compared to other tools. - Fixed an issue where chkinf may not display all active events. - Fixed an issue where after switching RAID to non RAID, options for RAID Storage settings are still displayed and gives the end user options to perform RAID operations. - Fixed an issue where Storcli hangs with execution of unsupported command-cacheflush. - Fixed an issue where OEM parameters are not getting populated correctly when the system is in RAID mode. - Fixed an issue where R5 VD PR resume was not working if system rebooted via EFI environment. - Fixed an issue where virtual drive properties are able to be set. - Fixed an issue where unsupported commands execute with improper output status as successful. - Fixed an issue where media error is getting detected even after 100% completion of consistency check. - Fixed an issue where the states of failed physical drives are not correctly shown when AutoResume and AutoRebuild are disabled and system is rebooted. - Fixed an issue where attempts to start patrol read on SSD at virtual disk level gives error message in MSM. - Fixed an issue where system cannot boot EFI install OS from 3TB physical drives. - Fixed an issue where patrol read is not starting on global hotspares.
15.01.2013.0115 - Suggested ------------------------------- Fix: - Fixed an issue where patrol read not starting on global hotspares.
Version 15.0.329.2012 - Initial release ---------------------
ibm_dd_megasr_16_03_2015_0324_windows_32-64_chg
Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) Firmware Update Change History
Version 5.60, 1AOO72H - NonCritical - Supports systems: HS23, HS23E, x3100 M4, x3100 M5, x3250 M4, x3250 M5, x3300 M4, x3500 M4, x3530 M4, x3550 M4, x3630 M4, x3650 M4, x3650 M4 BD, x3650 M4 HD, x3750 M4, x3850 X6, x3950 X6, dx360 M4, nx360 M4, x220, x222, x240, x440, x280, x480, x880 - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-5219, CVE-2015-5300, CVE-2016-0778, CVE-2015-3194, CVE-2015-3195, CVE-2015-3196, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2016-0705, CVE-2016-0797, CVE-2016-0799, CVE-2015-8472, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8710, CVE-2016-0755 - Added support to filter out invalid drive information from the RAID controller - Fixed a problem on the x3750 M4 that causes the IMM to report a power supply mismatch fault - Fixed a problem that causes the IMM to unexpectedly reset on the x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 - Fixed a problem with the power capping settings that causes the x3850 x6 to power off - Fixed a problem that causes the configuration restore operation to fail when the system has 12 network ports. - Fixed a problem where the IMM reports a system volume fault and the x3550 M4 cannot be powered on - Added changes to make the firmware more robust and avoid hang conditions. - Added changes to enhance DSA/OneCLI IPMI-LAN access.
Version 5.41, 1AOO70I - Critical - Supports systems: x3550 M4 - Firmware improvement to address a potential reliability issue for a voltage regulator. Not updating to this level could lead to a failed system board. Please refer to tip HT 118532.
Version 5.40, 1AOO70H - Critical - Supports systems: HS23, HS23E, x3100 M4, x3100 M5, x3250 M4, x3250 M5, x3300 M4, x3500 M4, x3530 M4, x3550 M4, x3630 M4, x3650 M4, x3650 M4 BD, x3650 M4 HD, x3750 M4, x3850 X6, x3950 X6, dx360 M4, nx360 M4, x220, x222, x240, x440, x280, x480, x880 - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0777, CVE-2016-0778 - Corrected a problem that prevented Lenovo XClarity Administrator from authenticating with the IMM2 - Fixed a problem on the x3850 X6 where the server unexpectedly reboots after an IMM2 reset - Fixed a problem on the x480 X6 that causes the CMM to report an 'unknown' IO connectivity status - Fixed a problem on the x3650 M4 that causes fan3 and fan4 to run at incorrect speeds - Fixed a problem that prevented the IMM2 gateway setting from being changed on the IMM2 web and in the UEFI menu. - Fixed a problem on the x3650 M4 where LDAP authentication does not work
Version 5.20, 1AOO68L - Critical - Supports systems: HS23, HS23E, x3100 M4, x3100 M5, x3250 M4, x3250 M5, x3300 M4, x3500 M4, x3530 M4, x3550 M4, x3630 M4, x3650 M4, x3650 M4 BD, x3650 M4 HD, x3750 M4, x3850 X6, x3950 X6, dx360 M4, nx360 M4, x240, x440, x280, x480, x880 - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-2207, CVE-2013-4508, CVE-2013-4559, CVE-2013-4560, CVE-2014-5352, CVE-2014-5353, CVE-2014-5355, CVE-2014-8121, CVE-2014-8176, CVE-2014-9421, CVE-2014-9422, CVE-2015-1349, CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2015-1788, CVE-2015-1789, CVE-2015-1790, CVE-2015-1791, CVE-2015-1792, CVE-2015-1799, CVE-2015-3216, CVE-2015-3405, CVE-2015-4000, CVE-2015-4171, CVE-2015-4620, CVE-2015-5477, CVE-2015-5600, CVE-2015-5722 - Re-enabled the EDH cipher for the LDAP client - Fixed a problem on x3550 M4 where MSM connectivity issue on X3650 M4 and X3550 M4 with ESXi 5.5 u2 on IMM v4.97 - Fixed a problem where setting NIST800-131A mode on the web, CLI, and SNMP is inconsistent - Fixed a problem where the signed certificate status on the web and the CLI does not match - Fixed a problem on x3650 M4 where the "NvDIMM Status & Cables" sensor does not de-assert - Fixed a problem where the DIMM's Manufacturer ID information is not displayed - Fixed a problem where the password is not changed after setting the password via OneCLI - Fixed a problem where a user cannot log using LDAP Active Directory Application Mode - Fixed a problem on x3850 X6 where the IMM2 does not detect power supply faults and over-temperature conditions - Fixed a problem on x3500 M4/x3550 M4/x3650 M4/x3650 M4 HD where the IMM2 reports power supply configuration mismatch assertion and deassertion events within seconds - Re-enabled TLS1.0/TSL1.1 support for the web and WS-MAN interfaces when the IMM2 is in NIST mode - Fixed a problem on x3100 M4/x3250 M4 where there is no alert message logged when AC power is lost
Version 4.97, 1AOO66M - NonCritical - Supported Platforms: HS23, HS23E, x3100 M4, x3100 M5, x3250 M4, x3250 M5, x3300 M4, x3500 M4, x3530 M4, x3550 M4, x3630 M4, x3650 M4, x3650 M4 BD, x3650 M4 HD, x3750 M4, x3850 X6, x3950 X6, dx360 M4, nx360 M4 - NOTE: To avoid possible exploits of the vulnerabilities discovered with SSLv3 encryption, support for SSLv3 has been removed from the IMM2 firmware. To access the IMM2 web interface using https, users must make use of client browser versions that support TLS1.2 encryption. Refer to RETAIN Tip H214507 for details. - After applying this firmware update all subsequent self-signed certificates are generated using SHA-2 cryptographic hashes. Certificate signing requests are also generated using SHA-2 cryptographic hashes if the IMM2 is configured to run in NIST SP 800-131A Compliance mode. - Critical Fix for x3750 M4 -- Fixed issue on missing power supply redundancy lost event - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2013-2877, CVE-2013-4332, CVE-2013-4854, CVE-2013-6435, CVE-2014-0191, CVE-2014-3505, CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3513, CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-3567, CVE-2014-3568, CVE-2014-3569, CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3571, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-3634, CVE-2014-3660, CVE-2014-3683, CVE-2014-8118, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2014-8500, CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9297, CVE-2014-9298, CVE-2015-0204, CVE-2015-0205, CVE-2015-0206, CVE-2015-0235, CVE-2015-2808, CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-5352, CVE-2014-7817, CVE-2014-9402, CVE-2014-9421, CVE-2014-9422, CVE-2014-9423, CVE-2015-0209, CVE-2015-0286, CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0288, CVE-2015-0289, CVE-2015-0292, CVE-2015-0293, CVE-2015-1472 - Fixed a problem that IMM2 unable to detect event from redundant PSU on x3250 M4 - Fixed a problem that PSU 1 and PSU 2 will show changed after hot swap on x3250 M4 - Fixed a problem that FAN will rotate in high speed when booting on 3100 M4 - Fixed a problem that IMM2 LDAP connects to AD server three time simultaneously for each login attempts with wrong password - Fixed a problem that Fan operates abnormally in S5 mode after rebooting system on x3550 M4 - Fixed a problem that "ipmitool chassis status" reporting false drive fault on System x3650 M4 - Fixed a problem that IMM firmware version 4.56 display as 4.55 in DSA log and UEFI data - Fixed a problem that IMM2 cannot log events on x3550 M4 - Fixed a problem that IMM2 may reset due to potential memory leakage - Fixed a problem that failure to send the alert of IMM2 via e-mail - Fixed a problem on IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4 for where the IMM may intermittently report an incorrect DC value to IBM NeXtScale n1200 Fan and Power Control (FPC) - Fixed a problem on NI152 x3650M4 where the IMM may report a power supply configuration mismatch error message in the system event log
Version 4.90, 1AOO66O - NonCritical - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2013-2877, CVE-2013-4332, CVE-2013-4854, CVE-2013-6435, CVE-2014-0191, CVE-2014-3505, CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3513, CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-3567, CVE-2014-3568, CVE-2014-3569, CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3571, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-3634, CVE-2014-3660, CVE-2014-3683, CVE-2014-8118, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2014-8500, CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9297, CVE-2014-9298, CVE-2015-0204, CVE-2015-0205, CVE-2015-0206, CVE-2015-0235, CVE-2015-2808 - Fixed a problem that IMM firmware version 4.56 displays as 4.55 in DSA log and UEFI data. - Fixed a problem that IMM2 may reset due to a potential memory leakage. - Fixed a cooling issue when the Fusion IO adapter is present - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 LDAP authentication attempts to connect to an AD server three times simultaneously for each login attempt with a wrong password. - Fixed a problem that may cause the IMM2 to fail to send an alert via e-mail. - To support new security requirements the IMM firmware now requires the Java remote presence client to be at version 1.8 or newer
Version 4.80, 1AOO64T - NonCritical - Supports IBM System x3850/x3950 X6, Machine Type: 3837, 3839 - Fixed potential problem where Service Advisor not functional when routing through a proxy server
Version 4.61, 1AOO64Y - NonCritical - Fixed a problem on IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4 for intermittent IPMB IO error and ME error. - Fixed a problem on IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4 for unexpected shutdown due to CPU over temperature
Version 4.58, 1AOO64V - Critical - Critical Fix for x3630 M4, x3530 M4, x3300 M4, x3650 M4 BD -- Removed an incorrect error message sometimes displayed when certain RAID adapters are installed in certain PCIe slots
Version 4.56, 1AOO64S - Critical - Critical Fix for x3650 M4, x3650 M4 HD, x3650 M4 BD, x3500 M4, x3630 M4, x3530 M4, x3300 M4 -- Fixed issue on missing power supply redundancy lost event
Version 4.55, 1AOO64N - NonCritical - Firmware changes to address security vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3505, CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2013-2174, CVE-2013-4545, CVE-2014-0015, CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-0139, CVE-2014-2653, CVE-2014-2532 - Closed network port 121. - Fixed a problem of I2C error on x3500 M4 systems with use of Fairmont Raid card with FW version 23.22.0-0024 and IMM 1AOO58T - Thermal behavior enhancement on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 - Fixed a problem that Call Home function was not working with a Proxy server
Version 4.50, 1AOO64L - NonCritical - Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3505, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2013-2174, CVE-2013-4545, CVE-2014-0015, CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-0139, CVE-2014-2653, CVE-2014-2532 - Fixed a problem where an erroneous event could be logged for an expansion card that would be followed by a recovery message several seconds later. - Fixed an issue with the web interface that could show a firmware update has failed if the user leaves the web interface inactive for over 20 minutes after downloading the update file. - Corrected an issue that might cause erroneous faults to be reported for the ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SATA when the server power is off. - Fixed an issue for multinode partition capable systems where when switching between partition and stand-alone modes repeatedly while also powering the nodes on and off, the IMM2 mode information could get out of sync with the server.
Version 4.35, 1AOO62W - Refresh Release - Support for refresh of the System x3650 M4 BD, Machine Type: 5466
Version 4.31, 1AOO58T - Critical - Critical Fix for x3650M4, x3550M4, x3500M4, dx360M4, x3100 M4, x3250m4, x3750M4, x3650M4 HD, x3630M4, x3530M4, x3300M4, x3250M5 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198 - Added option to export the certificate signing request in PEM format - Various Remote Presence enhancements including: -- Support for a MAC OS-x client -- Scaled video viewer window -- ASU set up of Remote Presence hot keys -- Virtual media mounting via URL - Removed potentially sensitive information from the service data file - Fixed a problem on x3650 M4, x3550 M4, x3500 M4, x3650 M4 HD where the IMM2 may not detect a loss of power supply redundancy - Fixed a problem where the LDAP group filter does not support a full DN - Fixed a problem where the syslog alert fields "Msg Type" and "Severity" did not follow RFC 5424 - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 only supported the default network port for syslog notifications - Fixed a problem where the SNMP "sysName" query always returns the string "SNMP Service" instead of the system name - Fixed a problem where the Global Login Settings changes were lost after an IMM2 restart
Important: Before you flash the IMM2 firmware back to version 3.82 or older, set the IMM2 Security option to use the Basic Compatibility Mode. This will prevent a possible loss of access to the IMM2.
Version 4.23, 1AOO62Z - Initial Release - Adds support for System x880 X6, Machine Type: 4259, 7903
Version 4.21, 1AOO58U - NonCritical - Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198
Version 4.20, 1AOO58R - NonCritical - Fixed an issue in I2C communications that could cause CMM to report, "FPGA Host 2 Communication is offline" - Fixed a problem that required the browser cache to be cleared before accessing IMM2 web page. - Corrected a problem that caused the CMM to reporting an I/O connectivity problem with the FSM - Enhanced the IMM2 service and support data to better aid in the diagnosis of VPD issues - Added support for the S3 system sleep state - Added support for agentless monitoring of PCIe devices - Enabled a Flex compute node to be powered on sooner after installation in the chassis - Added RFC compliance checking for user input - Ensured consistency in Daylight Savings Time setting between the CMM and IMM2 - Added support for enhanced hard drive monitoring and status - Corrected an issue that caused false reports of incorrect / missing / corrupt VPD events.
Version 4.15, 1AOO58K - Suggested - Added support for the BIE (Blade IO Expansion Board) on the HS23, HS23E - Fixed a problem that prevented the AMM from controlling power when local power control is disabled on the HS23, HS23E
Version 4.10, 1AOO58F - Initial Release - Supports System x3100 M5, Machine Type: 5457
Version 4.04, 1AOO64E - NonCritical - Supports IBM System x3850/x3950 X6, Machine Type: 3837, 3839 - Fixed potential problem where Memory Details on Critical DIMM points to a different location - Fixed potential problem for power state mismatching when one node transitions from AC disconnected to AC connected while the other node is powered up
Version 4.02, 1AOO58S - NonCritical - Supports IBM System x3850/x3950 X6, Machine Type: 3837, 3839 - Fixed a potential problem where a single CPU and single Power Supply model may show a configuration error - Fixed a potential problem where fans running at high speed under normal operation may erroneously log a fan failure - Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198 - Fixed a power state change problem when removing a Compute book with an I/O book attached - Fixed a problem where PCIE adapters in I/O books may not show up after an OS reboot
Version 4.00, 1AOO58I - NonCritical - Supports IBM System x3850/x3950 X6, Machine Type: 3837, 3839 - Add Scalable support. - x3950 X6 initial GA support level - Add support for enhanced hard drive monitoring and status - Fixed a potential problem that may cause the IMM to reboot in a configuration with multiple single port network cards.
Version 3.91, 1AOO58G - Critical - Supports System x3750 M4, Machine Type: 8752, 8718 - Add a feature to allow users to block power control from the power button on the x3750M4
Version 3.90, 1AOO54X - NonCritical - Added support for the IBM NeXtScale PCIe Native Expansion (NeX) Tray for IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4
Version 3.86, 1AOO56V - Critical - Critical Fix for x3500 M4 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198
Version 3.85, 1AOO56U - Critical - Critical Fix for x220, x222, x240, x440, Flex System Manager Node -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198
Version 3.84, 1AOO56J - Critical - Critical Fix for x3300 M4 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.83, 1AOO56I - Critical - Critical Fix for x3250 M5, nx360 M4 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.82, 1AOO56E - Critical - Critical Fix for x3850 X6 / x3950 X6 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.81, 1AOO52Z - Critical - Critical fix: -- Corrected the x3850/x3950 x6 server to turn off power from the power supplies when a power fault occurs
Version 3.80, 1AOO52U - Initial Release - Supports IBM System x3850/x3950 X6, Machine Type: 3837, 3839 - up to 4 CPU in one system - x3850 X6 initial GA support level
Version 3.79, 1AOO56G - Critical - Critical Fix for x240, x222, x440, x220, Flex System Manager Node -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.78, 1AOO52Y - Critical - Critical Fixes: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with information contained in service data (refer to security bulletin CVE-2014-0882) -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) initialization settings (refer to security bulletin CVE-2014-0881)
Version 3.77, 1AOO56H - Critical - Critical Fix for x3630 M4, x3530 M4 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.76, 1AOO56Q - Critical - Critical Fix for x3650 M4 BD -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198
Version 3.75, 1AOO56F - Critical - Critical Fix for x3650 M4 BD -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.74, 1AOO52R - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with information contained in service data (refer to security bulletin CVE-2014-0882) - Supports System x3650 M4 BD, Machine Type: 5466
Version 3.73, 1AOO56D - Critical - Critical Fix for: dx360 M4, x3650 M4, x3550 M4, x3500 M4, x3100 M4, x3250 M4, x3750 M4 -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 3.71, 1AOO52W - Critical - Critical Fix for x3550 M4: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with information contained in service data (refer to security bulletin CVE-2014-0882) -- Fixed a problem system may shut down with new Mezz card installed
Version 3.70, 1AOO52Q - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with information contained in service data (refer to security bulletin CVE-2014-0882)
Version 3.67, 1AOO50G - Initial Release - Supports System x3650 M4 BD, Machine Type: 5466
Version 3.65, 1AOO50D - Suggested NOTE: If you have a System x3550 M4 with the "Emulex VFA Mezz card" and a ==== single processor, don't update the IMM2 with this firmware - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a problem on the System x3650 M4 server where the system shuts down due to a false temperature event from the ambient temperature sensor - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 may erroneously report a fan fault in the x3630 M4 when the system is powering on. See RETAIN tip H207461 for the description of the original problem - Fixed a screen refresh problem where it occurs after resetting IMM2 - Fixed a firmware problem that may cause the IMM2 to reset unexpectedly - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 SNMP interface may intermittently be unavailable if the system is running VMWARE ESXi 5.x - Fixed a problem where the CPU may potentially throttle in the x3650 M4 system with two 550 watt power supplies and one hard drive backplane
Version 3.60, 1AOO50C - Suggested - Added support for the Intel IvyBridge-EP CPU on the HS23 blade - Fixed a problem where the HS23 hard drive number reported in the AMM event did not match the drive number on the physical blade enclosure - Fixed an intermittent problem where the UXSPI update utility may erroneously report that the firmware image is not meant for the HS23 system - Fixed a problem that causes the AMM web interface to not display properly when drives are removed or inserted - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 may not detect an over temperature condition for a DIMM - Corrected a problem that caused the IMM to report an "Unsupported blade/blower combination" error on HS23
Version 3.56, 1AOO50K - Critical - Fixed a Flex Systems Manager (FSM) Configuration Patterns problem where configuration deployments would fail with an activation job error message: ERROR: LDAP failed with rc=102 ERROR: LDAP failure: SYSPROF_LDAP_BIND_FAIL INFO
Version 3.55, 1AOO50E - Suggested - Fixed an issue so a fully qualified domain name can be used for a syslog collector in addition to an IP address - Fixed an issue to allow a user the ability to specify the port to use for syslog notifications, rather than only supporting the default port
Version 3.50, 1AOO50B - Suggested - Fixed an issue where the default static IPv4 address was assigned to the IMM2 management interface instead of the user configured static IPv4 address in DHCP fallback to static mode, if the DHCP server was not available - Prevent a VLAN from being configured on the IMM2 management interface for Flex nodes - Fixed a problem where the CPU throttling state recovery indication to the FSM might not be properly reported - Corrected an issue with the launch of the IMM2 Remote Console operation that required a restart of the IMM2 - Corrected the firmware to apply the inactivity timeout to web pages that automatically refresh - Updated the web browser support. The following web browsers are supported: Firefox 3.6-20 Chrome 13-26 Internet Explorer 8-10 - Added support for the S3 Sleeping State to the IMM2 user interfaces on those servers that include the S3 feature - Added changes to use the minimum TLS version setting that is provisioned by the CMM in Flex for encrypted communication - Enhanced the content of the service data file to assist in problem determination - Added a option to have the IMM2 automatically copy the firmware from its primary bank into the backup bank after the firmware has been run for a period of time and proven itself to be stable - Enhanced the IMM2 firmware to automatically restore itself without the need for user intervention if the firmware becomes corrupted - Added new commands on the command line interface to stop a serial redirection operation that is currently in progress, and to report the user names that have a serial redirection operation started - Added changes to use the DNS settings that are provisioned by the CMM in Flex to support use of an LDAP hostname for authentication - Updated the firmware to log hardware inventory change informational messages - Added support for the Service Advisor feature on stand alone rack servers to automatically call for service when a repair is needed - Added support to configure the Ethernet-over-USB IP address using ASU - Added changes to support the thermal requirements for new Solid State Drives used with the ServeRAID M5100 Series IBM Flex System Flash Kit v2 - Updated the IMM2 date and time web page on Flex nodes to only display the current date and time - Updated the SSH firmware to address various OpenSSH vulnerabilities that have been identified by security community - Added changes to support the Web Services-Management protocol
Version 3.40, 1AOO48M - Initial Release - Supports System x3250 M5, Machine Type: 5458
Version 3.37, 1AOO48P - Suggested - Added support for the IBM NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion (NeX) Tray for IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4
Version 3.36, 1AOO48Q - Critical - Fixed a problem on System x iDataPlex dx360M4 where a CIM client cannot get needed event information for asserted events
Version 3.35, 1AOO48N - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Corrected a problem on the System x3650 M4 and x3650 M4 HD servers causing the system to shut down due to an erroneous critical temperature event reported by the ambient temperature sensor
Version 3.30, 1AOO48L - NonCritical - Fixed a problem on System x iDataPlex dx360M4 where nodes shutdown due to a critical temperature event from the Ambient Temp sensor
Version 3.20, 1AOO48K - Initial Release - Supports System NeXtScale nx360 M4, Machine Type: 5455
Version 3.10, 1AOO48H - NonCritical - Added support for System x3650 M4 HD, Machine Type 5460 - Added support for newer CPUs in the System x iDataPlex dx360M4, x3500M4, x3550M4, and x3650M4 servers - Added a feature on the System x3550 M4 and x3650 M4 to fail over from the dedicated systems management network port to the shared port when the dedicated network link is not available - Fixed a problem where an NTP update message is logged every 1440 minutes - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 web interface won't accept an NTP hostname string that starts with a numeric character - Fixed a problem where the LDAP Group Filter authentication does not work as expected - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 reports 0 Watts when the System x iDataPlex dx360M4 is DC cycled or resumes from the S3 sleep state - Fixed an Ethernet problem that may cause an IMM2 failure to establish a link when the Ethernet speed and duplex settings are not configured to use auto-negotiation
Version 2.62, 1AOO56T - Critical - Critical Fix for x220, x222, x240, x440, Flex System Manager Node -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the OpenSSL vulnerabilities listed in CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-3470, CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198
Version 2.61, 1AOO44V - Critical - Critical Fix for x240, x220, x440, x222, Flex System Manager Node -- Updated the firmware with patches to address the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
Version 2.60, 1AOO42Y - NonCritical NOTE: For increased security, only high strength ciphers are now supported when using https.
==== Your browser must support one of the following cipher suites: | DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA256 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA256 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA256 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA256 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1
- Added support for the IBM Flex System x222 Compute Node - Improved Remote Presence (keyboard, mouse and virtual media)and in-band management (LAN-over-USB) performance - Changed the default file name for the Service Data file (First Failure Data Capture or FFDC) on the web interface to incorporate the machine type, serial number and a timestamp - Updated the IMM2 PCIe Bridge Firmware to support Windows 2012 Certification - Improved IMM2 Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) Features: - Added component and system VPD integrity checking & reporting - Enhanced Service Data collection (FFDC)
- Enhanced the configuration of UEFI settings via the CIM interface for applications like IBM Systems Director - Added Sub-manufacturer inventory support for mezz card and Sub-manufacturer inventory support for the system for IBM Systems Director - Added the UUID for the PCIe Expansion Node and the Storage Expansion Node to the SLP attributes reported by the IMM2 - Added the number of enabled CPU core and the Static power savings mode support for IBM Systems Director - Enhanced the alert recipient email notification, firmware update, event log, log out, and hardware information web pages to improve usability - Added support for IPMI & SNMPv3 accounts to be centrally managed by the Flex Chassis Management Module - Fixed a problem where an invalid configuration was erroneously reported for an unpopulated CPU socket in the IBM Flex System x440 - Enabled users to configure a longer trespass message - Increased the length of the LDAP group filter field to 511 characters - Corrected a problem with ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM Flex Systems energy pack monitoring - Corrected a problem with ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM Flex Systems LED management - Added IPMI command to configure the LAN-over-USB IP address
Version 2.52, 1AOO42E - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a problem on the System x3300 M4 servers causing the system to shut down due to a critical temperature event reported by the ambient temperature sensor
Version 2.50, 1AOO40Z - Suggested - Added support for the Solarflare SFN5162F MR Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter, and Solarflare SFN6122F LL Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for System x3550 M4 and x3650 M4 NOTE: UEFI also needs to be upgraded to D7E128B (v 1.40 or newer, for the x3550 M4) or VVE128B (v1.40 or newer, for the x3650 M4) to support these cards - Added support for the Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port QDR/FDR10 mezzanine card and Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI Single-port QSFsorry.P FDR14/40GbE HCA on System x3550 M4, and x3650 M4 - Added optional Fan Zone support for single CPU systems (x3550 M4 and x3650 M4) with an installed with Qlogic Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA - Fixed an intermittent problem where a Gratuitous ARP is not sent successfully - Fixed a problem where after the IMM2 firmware is flashed, there is a slight chance that the IMM2 web server can't be accessed when AC power is reapplied - Disabled the weak cipher suit used in the SSL/TLS firmware with the https protocol to avoid potential security vulnerabilities - Fixed a problem on the System x3750 M4 where the IMM2 shared mode network connection will be lost after upgrading the firmware of the onboard Emulex BE3 controller - Fixed a problem on the HS23 where the OS watchdog timer doesn't work - Fixed a problem on the HS23 where the Fault LED occasionally lights when the chassis is powered on with the BPE4 - Fixed a problem on the HS23 where the server may shut down after resetting the IMM2 - Enhanced the messaging mechanism between the BladeCenter AMM and the IMM2 - Added power management capability in the IMM2 web interface
Version 2.06, 1AOO42B - Critical - Corrected the firmware to prevent users from disabling the IPv6 interface - Fixed a problem that caused the IMM2 to reset itself after running for a period of time - Corrected the SNMP request to disable the IMM2 IPv4 interface so that it disables only IPV4, instead of both IPv4 and IPv6 - Fixed a problem that occasionally caused the server to shut down when the IMM2 is reset - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 incorrectly reported a battery voltage error - Corrected a problem where repeated frequent IMM2 resets causes the IMM2 to run the firmware in its backup partition - Corrected a problem report where the IMM2 did not report a failure to the system profiles script when the chassis UUID is unavailable
Version 2.00, 1AOO40E - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Improves the reliability of the CPU and/or memory VRDs. This improvement lowers the occurrence of CPU & memory VRD failures on the x3300 M4 and x3750 M4 -- IMM2 improved error reporting for missing/down CPU in invalid CPU configuration for x4440 M4 - Corrected a problem that caused 3.3V and 5V faults to be reported by IMM2 firmware level 1AOO34Z(1.85) on the HS23E blade - Eagle Ray SAS controller LED fault support improvements added for all ITE platforms
Version 1.97, 1AOO36R - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Improves the reliability of the CPU and/or memory VRDs. This improvement lowers the occurrence of CPU & memory VRD failures on x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 - Thermal behavior enhancement on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4
Version 1.95, 1AOO36P (for System x iDataPlex servers) - Suggested - Added support for NVIDIA K1,K2,K20,K20x GPUs on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4
Version 1.88, 1AOO40A (for PureFlex System Compute Nodes) - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with node management user accounts (Reference to Security Bulletin CVE-2012-4838) - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where the SNMP get and set authority levels did not work - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where mounting of remote media in a Linux environment showed a USB error - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems that caused the Remote Control Video Viewer window on a RHEL5.8 client to move when the arrow key is pressed - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where the SMTP "Test Connection" button did not work when the SMTP port is changed - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where the SNMP get and set authority levels did not work - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where mounting of remote media in a Linux environment showed a USB error - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems that caused the Remote Control Video Viewer window on a RHEL5.8 client to move when the arrow key is pressed - Fixed a problem on Flex Systems where the SMTP "Test Connection" button did not work when the SMTP port is changed - Corrected the Mezzanine card power fault monitoring on the Flex System x440 Compute Node - Corrected a problem with IBM Fabric Manager configuration from the Flex Chassis Management Module - Added support to retrieve configuration settings from an LDAP server - Added support for the Flex Storage Expansion Node - Added support for CIM indications over https - Added fingerprint checking for SFTP transfers - Added automatic recovery of corrupted UEFI firmware - Added support for authenticated SMTP alerts - Added a display of the users who have a Remote Control session in progress - Provided a request to a Remote Control client to disconnect the session - Added support for the server S3 (sleep) state - Changed the default NTP sync interval from 3 minutes to 24 hours - Fixed a problem where the ambient temperature is only displayed in degrees Fahrenheit - Fixed a problem on the web interface where 'local' is not accepted as a top level domain name in the email format when configuring event recipients - Corrected an IMM2 SNMP trap OID to match the prior IMM format - Fixed a problem that prevented an external USB device from being remotely mounted as a floppy drive in Windows Server 2003 - Changed the blue Location led behavior to not blink when a firmware update is in progress
IMPORTANT NOTICE: For X3300 M4, it is required to upgrade both the primary and backup IMM2 firmware to Version 1.86, 1AOO40D or later. After the IMM2 is successfully updated, it is highly recommended to run the following IPMI command: Get device id (ipmitool raw 6 1) If the last two bytes returned show 0x2A 0x41 even after a reset of the IMM2, please refer to TDR-H207183 or MIGR-5092140 for more information.
Version 1.86, 1AOO40D - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a problem where the X3300 M4 system configured with a M5110/M5120 RAID card plus the "IBM ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB/1 gigabytes (GB) Flash/RAID 5 Upgrade for IBM System x" option might have problem if AC power is removed while the system is running
Version 1.85, 1AOO34Z (for BladeCenter blades and System x Servers) - Critical - Critical Fix: -- Fixed a potential security vulnerability with node management user accounts (Reference to Security Bulletin CVE-2012-4838) - Fixed a problem where a Blade Open Fabric Manager uncorrectable error can occur when booting the HS23 - Fixed a problem that IMM IPMI command periodically timed out when using HS23 in Chassis with the management network being disabled in some special configurations - Added support for the HS23 to recognize NEBS/Enterprise Mode for Telco chassis (this feature needs Advanced Management Module Firmware BPET62U or later) - Fixed a problem where the ambient temperature is only displayed in degrees Fahrenheit - Fixed a problem where on rack systems that have 2 power supplies installed, the 'Redundancy Power unit has been restored' event is logged every time that the IMM2 is reset - Fixed a problem where a Fan Tach going low (lower critical) event is intermittently asserted when configuring the IMM2 to use an NTP server - Fixed a problem on the web interface where 'local' is not accepted as a top level domain name in the email format when configuring event recipients - Corrected an IMM2 SNMP trap OID to match the prior IMM format - Fixed a problem that prevented an external USB device from being remotely mounted as a floppy drive in Windows Server 2003 - Changed the blue Location led behavior to not blink when a firmware update is in progress - Fixed a problem on the HS23E that causes Preboot DSA to hang in CLI mode when a user accesses it using Serial over LAN - Fixed a problem on rack servers where ASU cannot set IMM.GRP_GroupName.1 and IMM.GRP_GroupName.2 if the string length is 16 characters or longer. The firmware was corrected to allow a maximum length of 64 characters - Added support for CIM indications over https - Added fingerprint checking for SFTP transfers - Added automatic recovery of corrupted UEFI firmware - Added support for authenticated SMTP alerts - Added a display of the users who have a Remote Control session in progress - Provided a request to a Remote Control client to disconnect the session - Added support for the server S3 (sleep) state
Version 1.85, 1AOO34Y (for PureFlex System V7000 Storage Node) - Initial Release - Added support for Flex System V7000 Storage Node
Version 1.79, 1AOO36F - Suggested - Thermal behavior enhancement on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4
Version 1.78, 1AOO36E - Suggested - Thermal behavior enhancement for 115W & 95W CPU on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 - Added support for the Intel KNC 5110p card
Version 1.77, 1AOO32X - Critical - Thermal behavior enhancement for 115W CPU on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4
Version 1.75, 1AOO32S - Suggested - Fixed a problem that a PCI uncorrectable error occurs when using HS23 with CFFh card (44W4479) in the BCS chassis - Fixed a problem where an "Unsupported blade/blower combination" error is reported when using the HS23 in the BCHT chassis configured in Enterprise mode - Fixed a problem in System x3530 M4, where the reported Active Energy Manager input/output power readings are inaccurate - Fixed a problem in System x3530 M4, x3630 M4, where an LDAP account can not login using the AD_CrossDomain tree - Fixed a problem in System x3530 M4, x3630 M4, where a user cannot use the "DNS to Find LDAP server/Extract search domain from login ID" setting from the IMM2 web to access an eDirectory server - Added support for Common Form Factor power supplies Oversubscription in System x3750 M4, Machine Types: 8722, 8733
Version 1.65, 1AOO32O - Suggested - Support the power supply Over-Subscription feature - Support the 750 Watt DC power supply for System x3650 M4,x3550 M4 - Support IBM 1.2TB High IOPS MLC Mono Adapter, IBM 2.4TB High IOPS MLC Duo Adapter for System x3650 M4, x3550 M4 - Support IBM LLM-SM Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for System x3650 M4 - Fixed an abnormal Fan Zone recovery problem - Fixed a problem that IMM2 Email notification doesn't support an e-mail address with the underscore '_' character - Fixed a power policy "Restore" problem - Fixed a problem where the LDAP hostname can't be changed by ASU - Fixed a problem that the length of email address (for SNMP notification) is limited to 32 characters
Version 1.60, 1AOO32P - Suggested - Fixed a problem where the Chassis Management Module cannot correctly get the Mezzanine card information for the Flex System x220 Compute Node - Fixed a problem where the PreBoot DSA firmware could not be updated under VMWare ESXi 5 through the Flex System Manager's Update Manager - Fixed a problem where an IMM2 communications error can occur if an unexpected response causes VMware to spawn multiple processes when it does not receive the data it expects from the IMM2
Version 1.59, 1AOO32K - Initial Release - Supports System x3300 M4, Machine Types: 7382
Version 1.53, 1AOO30Z - Critical - Included an update to the FPGA that fixes an intermittent issue where the CPUs do not show up in a system with a RAID card installed, when the AC is removed and reapplied from the server without allowing sufficient time for the system hardware to completely discharge
Version 1.52, 1AOO34A - Suggested - Added redundant power supply and hot swap hard drive support in System x3100 M4
Version 1.51, 1AOO30Y - Critical - Support for NVIDIA Tesla K10, M2070Q, M2090 GPU cards on System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 - Fixed a problem in System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 where the password expires after creating a new user in the IMM2 web interface - Fixed a problem in System x iDataPlex dx360 M4, when the memory sensor changes from 'critical' to 'warning,' but the severity is not updated in the syslog or the email notification
Version 1.50, 1AOO30W - Suggested - Supports System HS23, Machine Types: 7875,1929 - Supports System x3650 M4, Machine Types: 7915 - Supports System x3550 M4, Machine Types: 7914 - Supports System x3500 M4, Machine Types: 7383 - Added support for the Intel Xeon E5-2643 processor on the HS23 in BCH-R3, BCS and BCHT chassis - Fixed a problem where the IMM2 incorrectly logged an "Unsupported blade/blower combination" on the HS23 in the BC-E 8677 chassis - Fixed a power restore problem on systems that have 2 Delta power supplies installed - Fixed a problem in System x3650 M4, x3550 M4, x3500 M4, where OpenLDAP Group Authentication filtering function doesn't work - Fixed a problem in System x3650 M4, x3550 M4, x3500 M4, where LDAP account can not login using the AD_CrossDomain tree
Version 1.45, 1AOO28S - NonCritical - Fixed a problem in Flex System x220 where the Chassis Management Module (CMM) Command Line Interface can't display the Mezzanine card information - Fixed a problem in Flex System x220 and x240 where the prebootDSA firmware cannot be updated through Flex System Manager's Update Manager
Version 1.40, 1AOO30T - Initial Release - Supports System x3750 M4, Machine Types: 8722, 8733
Version 1.38, 1AOO30D - Initial Release - Supports System x3630 M4, Machine Type: 7158 - Supports System x3530 M4, Machine Type: 7160
Version 1.36, 1AOO30P - Initial Release - Fixed an intermittent remote media failure in system HS23E - Fixed a problem in system HS23E where remote media does not work when two or more users have concurrent remote control sessions
Version 1.34, 1AOO28Q - Initial Release - Supports Flex System Manager Node, Machine Type: 8731 - Supports Flex System x240 Compute Node, Machine Types: 7863, 8737, 8738 - Supports Flex System x220 Compute Node, Machine Types: 2585, 7906
Version 1.32, 1AOO28N - Critical - Supports System x3630 M4, Machine Type: 7158 - Supports System x3530 M4, Machine Type: 7160 - Fixed a problem that may see unexpected fan events after power on in x3100 M4 and x3250 M4 systems - Enhanced robustness on I2C bus test
Version 1.26, 1AOO26N - Initial Release - Supports System x3650 M4, Machine Types: 7915
Version 1.25, 1AOO26K - Initial Release - Supports System x3550 M4, Machine Types: 7914 - Supports System x3500 M4, Machine Types: 7383 - Supports System x iDataPlex dx360 M4, Machine Types: 7912,7913
Version 1.22, 1AOO26O - Suggested - Supports System HS23, Machine Types: 7875,1929 Problems Fixed: - Fixed a problem where the BOFM configuration may be lost after a blade power cycle - Fixed an LED error indication that occurs on the BPE4 - Fixed a problem where the Info LED lights during the discovery stage - Fixed a problem where an ABR event is not logged - Fixed an intermittent communication problem between the AMM and IMM2 - Fixed a problem that causes the remote media function to hang when a second user attempts to mount remote media - Fixed a problem where the 'break' keyboard function doesn't work with Serial Over LAN
Version 1.21, 1AOO26L - Initial Release - Supports System HS23, Machine Types: 7875,1929
Version 1.05, 1AOO10K - Initial Release - Fixed the false alert issue in redundant PSU model
Version 1.00, 1AOO10I - Initial Release - Initial Release - Supports System x3250 M4, Machine Types: 2583,2587 - Supports System x3100 M4, Machine Types: 2582,2586
(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2008 - 2016. All rights reserved.
ibm_fw_imm2_1aoo72h-5_60_anyos_noarch_chg
Intel® Chipset Device Software
Production Version 9.4.0.1027
Release Notes
September 2, 2013
Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows XP*
Microsoft Windows XP* Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista* RTM and SP’s
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows* 7
Microsoft Windows* 7 x64
Microsoft Windows* 8
Microsoft Windows* 8 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64
Microsoft Windows* 8.1
Microsoft Windows* 8.1 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64
INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF INTEL PRODUCTS INCLUDING LIABILITY OR WARRANTIES RELATING TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT.
A "Mission Critical Application" is any application in which failure of the Intel Product could result, directly or indirectly, in personal injury or death. SHOULD YOU PURCHASE OR USE INTEL'S PRODUCTS FOR ANY SUCH MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATION, YOU SHALL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD INTEL AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, SUBCONTRACTORS AND AFFILIATES, AND THE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AND EMPLOYEES OF EACH, HARMLESS AGAINST ALL CLAIMS COSTS, DAMAGES, AND EXPENSES AND REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES ARISING OUT OF, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY CLAIM OF PRODUCT LIABILITY, PERSONAL INJURY, OR DEATH ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF SUCH MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATION, WHETHER OR NOT INTEL OR ITS SUBCONTRACTOR WAS NEGLIGENT IN THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, OR WARNING OF THE INTEL PRODUCT OR ANY OF ITS PARTS.
Intel may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time, without notice. Designers must not rely on the absence or characteristics of any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined". Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from future changes to them. The information here is subject to change without notice. Do not finalize a design with this information.
The products described in this document may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request.
Contact your local Intel sales office or your distributor to obtain the latest specifications and before placing your product order.
Code names featured are used internally within Intel to identify products that are in development and not yet publicly announced for release. Customers, licensees and other third parties are not authorized by Intel to use code names in advertising, promotion
The Intel® Chipset Device Software may contain design defects or errors described as “known issues” which may cause the product to deviate from expected performance. Current characterized known issues are documented in this update.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
The Intel® Chipset Device Software contains support for the following:
· Intel® 8 Series Chipset Family
· Intel® 7 Series Express Chipset
· Intel® 6 Series Express Chipsets
· Intel® 5 Series Chipsets
· Intel® 4 Series Chipsets
· Intel® 3400 Series Chipsets
· Intel® 3 Series Chipsets
· Intel® 900 Series Chipsets
· Intel® 800 Series Chipsets
· Intel® Server/Workstation Chipsets
· Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500/3500 series
· 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
· 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
· 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
New Features
Features Added in Baseline 9.4.0.1027
ID
Description
1
Added devices 0E1C, 0E10, 0E13, 0E17, 0E18, 0E7D.
2
Removed thermal device 9C24 from LxLpCore.inf for PAC submissions.
Features Added in Baseline 9.4.0.1026
No New feature added.
Features Added in Baseline 9.4.0.1022
ID
Description
1
Certified for Windows 8.1 support.
Added Intel Sensor Solution HWIDs duplicate for VEN_INT&DEV_33D1.
2
Added Intel Sensor Solution HWIDs duplicate for VEN_INT&DEV_33D1.
3
Added support for MUP specification 2.4.1.
Features Added in Baseline 9.4.0.1017
ID
Description
1
Updated Branding for devices 0c08, 8C56, 8C52, 8C54
Features Added in Baseline Production Version 9.4.0.1016
ID
Description
1
Fixed missing cat file lxptusb.cat, Ivytown.cat
Features Added in Baseline Production Version 9.4.0.1014
ID
Description
1
Updated Installer with new INFs for extract driver switch
2
Added device information for Intel sensor solution for Intel® 8 Series chipset family (previously code named Lynx Point-LP)
3
Fixed readme.txt
Features Added in Baseline Beta 9.4.0.1012
ID
Description
1
Added Crystal Well DID
2
Updated Branding for Intel® 8 Series chipset family devices (previously code named Lynx Point-LP)
Features Added in Baseline Beta 9.4.0.1010
ID
Description
1
Updated Readme with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 instructions
2
Updated all 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family and Intel® 8 Series chipset family devices with correct branding
3
Signed with HCK
Features Added in Baseline Alpha 9.4.0.1007
ID
Description
1
Updated Intel® 8 Series chipset family (previously code named Lynx Point-LP) Device IDs
Features Added in Baseline Alpha 9.4.0.1003
ID
Description
1
Updated 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family Devices
2
Added Intel Corporation Signing to all installation on Windows 8
Known Issues
Known Issues in Build 1027
ID
Description
1
When running the Chipset INF installer on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2012 R2, there is a delay before any UI is displayed. This delay is usually approximately 2 minutes, but can be much more.
Known Issues in Build 1026
ID
Description
1
When running the Chipset INF installer on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2012 R2, there is a delay before any UI is displayed. This delay is usually approximately 2 minutes, but can be much more.
Known Issues in Build 1022
ID
Description
1
When running the Chipset INF installer on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2012 R2, there is a delay before any UI is displayed. This delay is usually approximately 2 minutes, but can be much more.
Known Issues in Build 1017
ID
Description
1
Centerton files are 0 bytes
Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved in Build 1027
ID
Description
No issue resolved.
Issues Resolved in Build 1026
ID
Description
1
Fixed USB INF files contain errors
2
Various string fixes
3
Updated "PDH" to "PCH" in readme.
4
Updated section names
Issues Resolved in Build 1022
ID
Description
1
Fixed missing newline after branding string.
2
Fixed Chipset INF files not signed issue.
3
Fixed device 33D1 display string.
Issues Resolved in Build 1017
ID
Description
1
Fixed AHCI bug filed in MSFT Database [REG:113011610144431] Intel CCG: BSOD 0x7B after uninstalling Intel RST software.
2
Fixed Sensor Co-Installer issue (Sensor hub is not working because of incorrectly installed by Intel chipset software)
Issues Resolved in Build 1016
ID
Description
1
Fixed the error message “This computer currently contains software version … which is newer than the version you are about to install”
Issues Resolved in Build 1011
ID
Description
1
Fixes the error message “This computer does not meet the minimum requirement “ on double install/update chipset software
Issues Resolved in Build 1003
ID
Description
No issue resolved.
intc_dd_inteldp_9_4_0_1027_windows_32-64_chg
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot Change History
Version 9.41, Build ID DSYTC2U o New System Support: o Special usage: - System x3250 M5 (5458)
Version 9.30, Build ID DSYTB27 o New System Support: Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917, 2584) IBM System x3300 M4 (7382) o Problem(s) Fixed: 1. PMR - 05766,YL2,760 Aenservice appeared after running UpdateXpress & DSA. 2. PMR - 05193,W01,000 7147 - Intermittent random PSOD in vmware. multiple
o Enhancement: None o Limitations: - FIFO test of NIC diagnostics is not supported on the Intel I350 Quad Port GbE. Powerville has shared FIFO and shared FIFO registers making a test impossible if four ports are running at once. - For more limitations please refer to readme. o Special usage: - 2012 ToolsCenter 12D
Version 9.29, Build ID DSYTAB6 o New System Support: Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917, 2584) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: - DSA implemented signature in product build. Please update IMM to 1AOO34V or later before updating pDSA, or flash failure will occur; - The user can not flash Embedded Preboot on VMware ESX3.5 prior to U4. - When flashing DSA Preboot using wflash/lflash, if you notice a build mismatch error, please make sure IMM firmware level is minimum 29B. Once you upgrade the IMM firmware to 29B or higher, DSA Preboot will continue to flash without error; - For more limitations please refer to readme. o Special usage: - NGP-4Q(12B+ FixPack3)
Version 9.28, Build ID DSYTAA4 o New System Support: x3630 M4 (7519) x3550 M4 (7383) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: - DSA implemented signature in product build. Please update IMM to 1AOO34V or later before updating pDSA, or flash failure will occur; - The user can not flash Embedded Preboot on VMware ESX3.5 prior to U4. - When flashing DSA Preboot using wflash/lflash, if you notice a build mismatch error, please make sure IMM firmware level is minimum 29B. Once you upgrade the IMM firmware to 29B or higher, DSA Preboot will continue to flash without error; - For more limitations please refer to readme. o Special usage: - IMMV2 system 2012 4Q-LFC
Version 9.27, Build ID DSYTA7F o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme o Special usage: - IMMv1 system 2012 4Q-LFC
Version 9.26, Build ID DSYTA6G o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: DSA Performance Optimization o Limitations: Refer to readme o Special usage: - 2012 ToolsCenter 12C
Version 9.21, Build ID DSYTA1U o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: 1.Recovered LSI Rawdata: "MegaCli -FwTermLog -Dsply -aALL" o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme o Special usage: - 2012 ToolsCenter 12B Plus
Version 9.20, Build ID DSYTA0R o New System Support: x3530 M4 (7160) x3630 M4 (7158) x3750 M4 (8722, 8733) HS23E (8038, 8039) Flex System x220 Compute Node (7906, 2585) o Problem(s) Fixed: 1. PMR 05819,YL2,760 An error occured during the execution of DSA on Windows, DSA exits with an error at the eventlog plugin. o Enhancement: 1. Add HW remote presence key collection for High volume systems. o Limitations: Refer to readme o Special usage: - 2012 ToolsCenter 12B
Version 9.07, Build ID DSYT9CA o New System Support: x3750 M4 (8722, 8733) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.06, Build ID DSYT9BC o New System Support: Flex System x220 Compute Node (7906) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.05, Build ID DSYT9AA o New System Support: x3630 M4 (7158) x3530 M4 (7160) x3100 M4 Refresh1 (2582) x3250 M4 Refresh1 (2583) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.04, Build ID DSYT99E o New System Support: Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737, 8738, 7863) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.03, Build ID DSYT98I o New System Support: HS23E (8038, 8039) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.02, Build ID DSYT97C o New System Support: iDataPlex dx360 M4 server/2U chassis (7912/7913) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.01, Build ID DSYT96D o New System Support: x3500 M4 (7383) x3550 M4 (7914) x3650 M4 (7915) o Problem(s) Fixed: o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 9.00, Build ID DSYT95W o New System Support: BladeCenter HS23 (7875) BladeCenter HX5 (7873, 1910) Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737, 8738, 7863) Flex System Manager Node (8735) x3500 M4 (7383) x3550 M4 (7914) x3630 M4 (7158) x3650 M4 (7915) x3690 X5 (7192, 7147) x3850 X5 / x3950 X5 (7143, 7191) o Problem(s) Fixed: 1. PMR 24817,8QG,000, PMR 30680,499,000 After kicking off DSA on one of the management nodes (x3650 M2) of SONAS 1.2(RHEL5 based), the node became unresponsive and dropped out of the cluster.
2. PMR 53575,000,834, PMR 05961,YL4,760 After running DSA, when using linux dump command on a DDS5 usb internal tape drive attached in x3650M2 backup speed becomes very slowly or failed.
3. PMR 26905,095,866 Running DSA 4.0 as well as DSA 3.4 on x3850 X5 the server is freezing, users have to reboot the server.
4. DSA 4.00 and previous version segmentation fault issue
6. PMR 15086,OTH,760 DSA 9.00 with --no-imm-lan option does not work correctly on RHEL5.3. The USB port state is changed during the execution of DSA.
o Enhancement: 1. Add GUI and CLI menu for Features on Demand (FoD) Activation Key Management o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 4.02, Build ID DSYT92I o New System Support: iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 server o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 4.01, Build ID DSYT92H o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: - 2011 4Q lifecycle
Version 4.00, Build ID DSYT91S o New System Support: None o New server options support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: 1. PMR 15065,OTR,760 On Unisys ES7000 or x3850 X5, the Memory Card number with failed DIMM can not be reported in IPMI Eventlog if the Memory Card is bigger than 4.
o Enhancement: 1. Added > 1TB memory test support o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: - 2011 ToolsCenter 11D
Version 3.48, Build ID DSYT89PUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: - 2011 3Q lifecycle
Version 3.47, Build ID DSYT89LUS o New System Support: x3100 M4 (2582) x3250 M4 (2583) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.46, Build ID DSYT89GUS o New System Support: System x iDataPlex dx360 M3 (6391) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.45, Build ID DSYT89EUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: - x3850 X5 / x3950 X5 (7143, 7191) EXA scaling
Version 3.43, Build ID DSYT87HUS o New System Support: BladeCenter HX5 (7873,1910) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.43, Build ID DSYT87FUS o New System Support: x3850 X5 / x3950 X5 (7143, 7191) x3690 X5 (7192, 7147) o Problem(s) Fixed: o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.40, Build ID DSYT85T o New System Support: BladeCenter HS22 (1911) x3650 M3 (5454) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.30, Build ID DSYT80S o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: 1. Correct a problem with LSI MegaRAID reporting for IBM Service o Limitations: Refer to readme. o Special usage: None
Version 3.20, Build ID DSYT75X o New System Support: x3630 M3 (7377) x3690 X5 (7148, 7149) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: 1. Add LSI Hard Disk Drive (HDD) diagnostic back for both the onboard SAS chip and ServeRAID o Limitations: - If you have ServeRAID (M1015) SAS/SATA Controller, 46M0831 installed, you will need one of the following: - uEFI GYE133A or greater for x3200 M3 and x3250 M3 - uEFI Y4E145B or greater for x3400 M2, x3400 M3, x3500 M2 and x3500 M3 - uEFI D6E145C or greater for x3550 M2, x3550 M3, x3650 M2 and x3650 M3 - For more limitations please refer to readme o Special usage: None
Verion 3.20, Build ID DSYT75U o New System Support: x3755 M3 (7164) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: None o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Verion 3.10, Build ID DSYT70X o New System Support: x3400 M3(7378, 7379) x3500 M3(7380) x3550 M3 (7944, 4254) x3620 M3 (7376) x3650 M3 (7945, 4255) x3690 X5 (7148, 7149) x3850 X5 Standard Single-node and Multi-node models(7145, 7146) x3950 X5 Specially configured Database Engine models (7145, 7146) iDataplex dx360 M3 (6391) HS22V (7871,1949) HX5 (7872, 1909) o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: 1. Added ServeRAID data collection o Limitations: - The following function has been temporarily removed from DSA Preboot for both the onboard SAS chip and ServeRAID: - LSI Hard Disk Drive (HDD) diagnostic - If you have ServeRAID (M1015) SAS/SATA Controller, 46M0831 installed, you will need one of the following: - uEFI GYE133A or greater for x3200 M3 and x3250 M3 - uEFI Y4E145B or greater for x3400 M2, x3400 M3, x3500 M2 and x3500 M3 - uEFI D6E145C or greater for x3550 M2, x3550 M3, x3650 M2 and x3650 M3 - For more limitations please refer to readme o Special usage: None
Version 3.02.56, Build ID DSYT56e o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - The following systems are supported when BoMC downloads the corresponding system enablement pack: HS22V (7871,1949) x3550 M3 (7944,4254) x3650 M3 (7945,4255) x3400 M3 (7378,7379) x3500 M3 (7839) dx360 M3 (6391) o Limitations: - No HDD diagnostics available - To ensure quality and stability of the DSA code, we have reverted some display functionality of RAID information to what was shown in previous versions of DSA. This affects RAID display on the following adapters: Megaraid 8480 Serveraid MR10i Serveraid MR10is Serveraid MR10m Serveraid MR10k Serveraid M1015 Serveraid M5014 Serveraid M5015 On these adapters, the RAID information is generated from the output of separate command line tools and the format may not match other output in DSA. - For more limitations please refer to readme o Special usage: None
Version 3.00, Build ID: DSYT55a o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - Added support for Machine Types 7327, 7328, 4251, 4252, 4261 o Limitations: - No HDD diagnostics available - For more limitations please refer to readme o Special usage: None
Version 1.16, Y4YT19AUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - Added support for Machine Types 7839, 7836, 7837 o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 1.15, TMYT20AUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - Added support for Machine Types 7321, 6380, 7323 o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 1.14, D6YT37AUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - Added support for Machine Types 7946, 4198, 7947, 4199 o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 1.13, P9YT48AUS o New System Support: None o Problem(s) Fixed: None o Enhancement: - Added support for Machine Types 7870, 1936, 7809 o Limitations: None o Special usage: None
Version 1.00 - Initial release
(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2008 - 2012. All rights reserved. ibm_fw_dsa_dsytc2u-9_41_anyos_anycpu_chg
IBM HBA/LSI 12Gb SAS/SATA/SSD Driver for Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008
Supported Controllers: - IBM N2226 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (00AE916) - IBM N2225 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (00AE912) - IBM N2215 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x (47C8676) - SAS/SATA HBA (00AE912)
NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A
Version 2.51.10.00 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence ------------------ Fixes: - Fixed issue where MSM and storlib after device removal (SCGCQ00905386) - Fixed issue where TUR command was sent to FW with improper priority (SCGCQ00943714) - Fixed issue where Cutlass HBA is shown as Intruder in windows Device manager (SCGCQ00890055) - Fixed issue where Windows IT driver does not work when MPI message size is changed from 128 bytes (SCGCQ00925134) - Fixed issue where staggared sping up is not sent to all SATA drives when system hibernate is received. (SCGCQ00939495, Port of SCGCQ00938285) - Fixed issue where when Lun_Reset issued ,the driver paused the queue for ~5 min (SCGCQ00951522, Port of SCGCQ00951439)
Enhancements: - Increased the MPI Event queue Size from 50 to 200 (SCGCQ00928761) - Updated LSI_SAS3 driver to suuport MPI message sizes and chain buffer dynamic sizes (SCGCQ00932792, Port of SCGCQ00928124)
Version 2.51.01.00 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence ------------------ - Fixed issue where Disk Management would crash when more than one drive was connected. (SCGCQ00844533)
Version 2.50.92.00 - Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence ------------------ Enhancements: - Correct Initiator Port Addresses reported in PowerShell (SCGCQ00614505) - Generate a fault/alert when junction temperature approaches max spec (SCGCQ00599981) - Avoid unnecessary hard (diag) resets at driver initialization (SCGCQ00498051) - Improve performance by getting MSI-X vector number in BuildIo vs. StartIo (SCGCQ00498059) - Additional Fault Code to FW for heart beat LED on Fury HBAs to show if the chips on the board are over heating. (SCGCQ00654914)
Fixes: - No Ring buffer logs are captured when task management issued using lsiutil (SCGCQ00681017) - No log files are generated in Sas3 diag collect svc when firmware fault is issued (SCGCQ00666908)
Version 2.50.75.00 - Initial release ------------------ ibm_dd_mpt3sas_2_51_10_00_windows_32-64_chg
Mellanox Technologies
=============================================================================== Mellanox OFED for Windows UpdateXpress Release Notes for IBM Version MLNX_WinOF 4.90 Last Modified on Jan 22, 2015 ===============================================================================
THIS HARDWARE, SOFTWARE OR TEST SUITE PRODUCT (PRODUCT(S)) AND ITS RELATED DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES AS-IS WITH ALL FAULTS OF ANY KIND AND SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING THE CUSTOMER IN TESTING APPLICATIONS THAT USE THE PRODUCTS IN DESIGNATED SOLUTIONS. THE CUSTOMER'S MANUFACTURING TEST ENVIRONMENT HAS NOT MET THE STANDARDS SET BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TO FULLY QUALIFY THE PRODUCTO(S) AND/OR THE SYSTEM USING IT. THEREFORE, MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE PRODUCTS WILL OPERATE WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY. ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MELLANOX BE LIABLE TO CUSTOMER OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PAYMENT FOR PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT(S) AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Mellanox®, Mellanox logo, BridgeX®, ConnectX®, CORE-Direct®, InfiniBridge®, InfiniHost®, InfiniScale®, MLNX-OS®, PhyX®, SwitchX®, UFM®, Virtual Protocol Interconnect® and Voltaire® are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Connect-IB™, ExtendX™, FabricIT™, Mellanox Open Ethernet™, Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch™, MetroX™, MetroDX™, ScalableHPC™, Unbreakable-Link™ are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
=============================================================================== Table of Contents =============================================================================== 1. Overview 2. Changes in This Release 3. Supported Firmware and Firmware Tools 4. Change Log History 4.1 WinOF VPI v4.80 Main Changes (from v4.70) 4.2 WinOF VPI v4.70 Main Changes (from v4.61) 4.3 WinOF VPI v4.61 Main Changes (from v4.60) 4.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 Main Changes (from v4.55) 4.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 Main Changes (from v4.40) 4.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 Main Changes (from v4.3) 4.7 WinOF VPI v4.3 Main Changes (from v4.2) 4.8 WinOF VPI v4.2 Main Changes 5. Known Issues 6. Bug Fixes History 6.1 WinOF VPI v4.80 Bug Fixes 6.2 WinOF VPI v4.70 Bug Fixes 6.3 WinOF VPI v4.61 Bug Fixes 6.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 Bug Fixes 6.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 Bug Fixes 6.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 Bug Fixes 6.7 WinOF VPI v4.2 Bug Fixes 7. API Changes 7.1 WinOF VPI v4.90 API Changes: 7.2 WinOF VPI v4.80 API Changes: 7.3 WinOF VPI v4.70 API Changes: 7.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 API Changes: 7.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 API Changes: 7.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 API Changes:
=============================================================================== 1. Overview =============================================================================== This document addresses the Mellanox WinOF VPI driver package distributed for Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64 only) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64 only). Mellanox WinOF VPI is composed of several software modules that contain an InfiniBand and Ethernet driver. The Mellanox WinOF VPI driver supports Infiniband and 10/40GB Ethernet ports. The port type is determined upon boot based on card’s capability and user setting.
=============================================================================== 2. Changes in This Release =============================================================================== Generic -Added support for new Mellanox OUI: E4:1D:2D. Mellanox card with this OUI would not work with the previous versions of WinOF -Fixed CM CPU consumption for a long period of time while in DPC context -Added to MLNX_System_Snapshot Mellanox specific counters and data from Get- Mlnx* Cmdlets Resiliency -Reset Flow improvements: redesigned and simplified it to resolve race conditions with parallel resets Ethernet -Added ETS with DSCP support -Fixed stability issues -Fixed failure when deleting Virtual Ethernet Interfaces right after creating it -Fixed duplicated values of Receive Completion Method in UI on Windows Server 2012 R2 -Improved completion memory access speed -Improved RX descriptors memory access -Improved the scalability of VMQ to allow running more VMs reliably -Enabled ETS per flow according to the DSCP value in the IP header -Reduced memory footprints of Ethernet interfaces -Changed default VMQ/VPort affinity to use the first RSS CPU -Changed behavior in VMQ/SR-IOV mode by making all traffic of the default VPORT/ VMQ use the same CPU InfiniBand -Updated IBAL interface version. In order for the applications that use the IBAL interface to work with WinOF Rev 4.90.50000, they must be recompiled with the new SDK -Added support for SM change event -Fixed propagation of error code when ib_join_mcast() fails -Fixed connectivity problems when using PKeys from the same partition with different membership types -Fixed VM reset after printing the message "mlx4_core 0000:05:00.0: unparavirt com- mand: OTHER (0x3a) accepted from slave:3" in SR-IOV InfiniBand VM over non-win- dows hypervisor RoCE -In RoCE v2, added the option of determining the source port field of the UDP header can by the application NDK -Improved CPU utilization -Changed ndkgetremotetokenfrommr() to return value in network byte order Performance -Fixed the UI crash when working with a single port -Fixed wrong ND_* performance tests duration calculation -Fixed the higher limit of ThreadPoll to be 200,000 IPoIB -Fixed stability issues -Fixed displaying of IPoIB default turning option -Fixed temporary network connectivity issues while migrating VMs or modifying VMQ configuration for VMs that uses IPoIB with VMQ -Fixed the part_man tool to use the actual default p_key instead of 0xffff -Fixed NIC reset when attaching to a multicast group fails -Fixed duplicated values of Receive Completion Method in UI on Windows Server 2012 R2 -Added support for multiple PKey interfaces in IPoIB -Added support for teaming of IPoIB interfaces to allow failover -Added IPoIB adapters teaming support (beta level) -Added sending of gratuitous ARP in IPoIB interface when the MAC address is changed -Reduced memory footprints of IPoIB interfaces -Reduced the multiple number of path record queries to one when old query information exists -Improved completion memory access speed -Changed default VMQ/VPort affinity to use first RSS CPU -Multiple PKey support is now at GA level. The part_man tool allows the creation of up to 64 vIPoIB interfaces (32 per port) -Added a warning to the event log if the port MTU is higher than the reported MTU by the SM. Installation -Fixed CIM failure after installation in maintenance mode -Fixed loading of old driver after driver upgrade that requires system reboot to complete the process -Fixed RoCE disable by default after installation of WinOF in Windows 8.1 Client ND -Fixed seg fault when executing ND application with no device installed or when a wrong device identifier is used -Fixed wrong reported value of supported number of SGE in 32 bit DLLs -Increased the number of supported SGEs in 32 bit DLLs to 2 NVGRE -Fixed restoration of NVGRE configuration after NIC reset Changes in UI -Replaced the terms “LBFO” and “Bundle” with “Teaming” and “team” respectively. CIM/WMI -Fixed failure when calling Get-MlnxFirmwareIdentity if not all devices are up
=============================================================================== 3. Supported Firmware and Firmware Tools =============================================================================== - Firmware: - ConnectX®-3 and ConnectX®-3 EN QDR/FDR10/FDR - Firmware v2.33.5000 and above
- Tools: - MFT (Mellanox Firmware Tools) version 3.0.0 and higher
=============================================================================== 4. Change Log History ===============================================================================
4.1 WinOF VPI v4.80 Main Changes (from v4.70): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WinOF VPI v4.80 provides the following changes and new features:
- Generic - Changed Reset Flow (+SR-IOV)-enabled only if no user space application is running and depends on the registry key: AllowResetOnError setting) - Changed the number of supported QPs in a multicast group from hard coded value to firmware capabilities dependent - Optimized handling of “affinity change” on OID_RECEIVE_FILTER_QUEUE_PARAMETERS - Added the ability to control the number of retries and timeout to check the device health before performing reset.
- IPoIB - Added multiple P_Key support (beta level) - Added IPoIB SR-IOV over KVM and ESX Hypervisors (for both full and partial mem- bership) - Added support for LID change event - Added enhancements in part_man for the multiple Pkey support - Changed IPv6 “all dhcp servers” mcast to be persistent
- Ethernet - Added RSS in UDP (enabled by default) - Added 56 GbE (Please refer to the Infiniband Switch User Guide for further details) - Changed DSCP configuration to be per port instead of global - Network Direct: Fixed race in NDK between handling of incoming connection and destruction of a listener - Network Direct: Fixed race between NDK object creation and usage - Improved TCB (Transmission Control Block) management on send - Improved transmit and receive in multi stream scenarios - Enabled hardware checksum offload for non TCP/UDP traffic with ConnectX3-Pro - Improved stability when handling OIDs during driver reset
- RoCE - Added IP based RoCE (v1.25)
- Infiniband - Added non-default PKey in VM
- Performance - Optimized interrupt moderation values in SR-IOV VF mode for IPoIB - Improved perf_tuning detection for the first port - Improved performance in packet forwarding scenarios - Decreased dropped packets rate for Ethernet significantly - Changed default perf_tuning scenario to be “Balanced configuration” - Various performance improvements
- WMI/CIM - Added ability to read active RoCE configuration from hardware - Added support for RoCE v1.25
- Installation/ Upgrade - Added check for administrator privileges during installation - Added support for installation in silent mode without execution of perf_tune - Fixed installation stuck when Remote Desktop Session Host Windows Installer RDS compatibility is enabled
4.2 WinOF VPI v4.70 Main Changes (from v4.61): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Generic - Changed Ethernet and IPoIB event log messages to be more clear - Ported SDK project to Visual Studio 2013.
- Performance - Improved perf_tuning setting in single CPU machines to avoid TX collision
- IPoIB - Added support for IPoIB SR-IOV Virtual Function (VF) over KVM Hypervisor (Beta level) - Added support for non-default pkey, as queried from OpenSM, on IPoIB SR-IOV VF over KVM. - Added IPoIB QoS proprietary counters, diagnostics and traffic for monitoring, using Windows' perfmon utility
- Ethernet - Added Virtual Ethernet Adapter support which enables using SMB Direct and HyperV (VMQ and NVGRE (over ConnectX®-3 Pro)) on the same port - Added lossless TCP buffer management when no receive WQE are available
- RoCE - Added ConnectX®-3 Pro support for RoCEv2 - Changed the transport name in vstat and ibstat to be RoCE v2.0
- Installation/Upgrade - All user-space binaries are now signed - Fixed restoration process of DNS servers during upgrade - Fixed popping windows during installation/upgrade - Fixed missing 32 bit files in the catalog files
4.3 WinOF VPI v4.61 Main Changes (from v4.60): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Generic - Improved information in event log when a bad cable is detected - Improved resiliency on error flow in Ethernet, IPoIB and bus drivers - Performance - Added support OF IPv6 to all nd_*_* tests - Enabled optimal interrupt moderation values in SR-IOV VF mode - Stopped using NdisQueryNetBufferPhysicalCount to improve CPU utilization - IPoIB - Enabled searching for IBAT routes based on dest only instead of src,dest and added a mechanism preventing memory growth in IBAT entries - Allowed any number of RSS processors, not only a power of 2 - Ensured SR-IOV mode is not enabled for IPoIB ports, which resulted in confusing message in event log - Ethernet - Added support for "unknown" link state indication - Added support for DMA checks by driver verifier on SR-IOV Virtual Function - Added support for NVGRE over LBFO Team - Improved performance of handling change receive ring affinity request - In SR-IOV mode, improved resiliency to driver failures in the Virtual Machine which could result in driver load failure in VM - Improved resilience in VF to PF communication in SR-IOV mode - Improved structure of INF file for SR-IOV Physical and Virtual Functions
4.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 Main Changes (from v4.55): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Enabled configuration changes saving upon Inbox and previous releases - Enabled CIM installation as a standalone package - Added support to IPv6-to-all nd_*_* tests - Added the ability to rearm a CQ in the kernel - Added the ability to handle LID changes - Added the STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED return value upon connection timeout. - Added the ability to handle LID changes - Added support for iSCSI boot over IPoIB - Added DSCP support over IPv4 (Requires firmware v2.30.8000 and above) - Added traffic profile - Added ControlledBy association to IBPort - Changed connection timeout behavior - Changed the report link speed zero in case of disconnected network adapter - Modified the CQ size to prevent CQ overrun - Removed support for the following configurations: - ModeFlags - SingleMsixNum - MultiMsixNum - SingleEqNum - MultiEqNum - MaxContQuant - SlaveNum - DebugLevel - DebugFlags - UsePrio - NumFcExch - EnableQoS - BlockMcastLoopBack - InterruptFromFirstPacket - ProbeVf - Fixed the team’s MAC address uniqueness in the host of the team in Windows 2008 R2 - Performance improvements in latency - Performance improvements
4.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 Main Changes (from v4.40): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added support for Windows Server 2012 R2 Operating System - Added the ParentBusPath option to each port registry key - Added a new hardware ID for ConnectX®-3 Pro NICs - Added to the UI the *EncapsulatedPacketTaskOffload option when using ConnectX®-3 Pro NICs - Added the nd_send_bw and nd_send_lat ND benchmarking tools - Added IP-IP checksum off-load support - Added Ports TX arbitration/Bandwidth allocation per port - Added Sniffer for RoCE packets - Changed the QP numbers allocation into a round-robin manner - Removed support for RecvCompletionMethod as Interrupt - Removed the LsoV1IPv4 from the registry/UI - Removed from the bus driver configuration the ‘Non-DMA’ option - Removed the TXRingNum option from the UI - NVGRE hardware off-loads with ConnectX®-3 Pro cards only - The following ND providers, MLX4ND and MLX4ND2 are installed by default - IPoIB performance improvements - The used RoCE mode set upon driver load is printed into event log message
4.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 Main Changes (from v4.3): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added a notification in the event log in case SMB is not supported in ConnectX®-2 firmware - Added the trace tool for WPP tracing - Added Transmit Side Scaling (TSS) - Added Ethernet QoS proprietary counters, diagnostics and traffic for monitoring, using Windows’ perfmon utility - Added to the MTU size the IP header size (1500 ->1514, 9600->9614). Thus the minimum Jumbo frame size is 614. - Added active_mtu field to struct ib_port_attr_t - Added the option of vstat displaying the active_mtu of the ports - Added the option of ibv_devinfo displaying the correct MTU value after it was changed - Added the option of part_man printing the adapter name when the Port GUID is set to zero - Added the option of part_man printing the leading zeroes of port GUID - Set 512 RX buffers by default - Removed TXRingNum - Removed portsetting registry key during uninstall - Removed the QoS attributes when disabling QoS - Changed the perf_tuning setting to achieve a better performance tuning - Enabled MaxRssProcessirs support of the following values: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,64 - Interrupt moderation supports the following profiles: - Low Latency - Moderate - Aggressive in addition to old values that are not supported anymore - Made mlx4_bus and Ethernet devices removable - Network Direct: Added support for NDv2 - Network Direct: Set the default ND provide value to mlx4nd2 - Network Direct: Removed the option of NDK registration failure requiring a reboot of the machine to register it again - Network Direct: Added the option of sensing the incoming Read messages according to the device capabilities when creating an EndPoint limit - Allowed registration of a large Memory Region which is splitted to many segments - Prevented displaying a message to upgrade the firmware for OEM NICs if it has the latest firmware version
4.7 WinOF VPI v4.3 Main Changes (from v4.2): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added support for a new provider called MLX4ND, which supports both NDv1 and NDv2 interfaces - Enabled performance tuning running according to the operating systems that are running over it - The keywords added to the registry in NDIS support Windows 2012 are: - RssMaxProcNumber - NumRSSQueues - RSSProfile - The keywords added to the registry In NDIS support Windows 2008 R2 are: - RssBaseProcNumber - MaxRssProcessors - RssBaseProcGroup - The rest of the keywords are added in all versions of NDIS. This change is based on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff570864(v=vs.85).aspx - RoCE MTU value is no longer set to 1024 by default - All options stay as they are and can only be chosen if they were selected explicitly in the UI/registry - The current default state is as follows: The value is now derived from the MTU (or MaxFramSize, or Jumbo Packets value) and they are all aliases for the same value). The value is aligned to 256,512,1024,2048 in a way that it will be rounded down to the nearest power of two of the ETH MTU. - Added ibdiagnet utility support
4.8 WinOF VPI v4.2 Main Changes: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added support for K-GROUPS processors (more than 64 processors support) to allow assignment of MSI-X affinity for multiple processor groups. - Added an event log to indicate driver failure upon start if there are two HCA burned with the same GUID. - Added firmware upgrade support as part of the setup process. The setup burns the new firmware only on Mellanox cards. Firmware burning failure does not prevent the driver’s installation, therefore, it will show a warning. In this case, it is recommended to update the firmware manually. - Added Registry key documentation to the setup package - Added support for BlueFlame. BlueFlame is now the default working mode for all packets that have a descriptor which fits into a BF register (currently 256 bytes). - Added support for RSS functionality on available processors numbers. Used to be restricted to start at the first processor. - Changed RSS registry defaults to give better out of the box performance - Added a performance UI to tune performance under various scenarios - Added a tool to tune performance under various scenarios - Added support for multiple TX rings - Added an option to verify that the number of multicast groups used is no higher than the firmware limits - Added support for multiple TX rings. The new driver advertises its TSS capability (using multiple TX rings). This feature will not be used when communicating with older version drivers (such as the inbox driver). This way IPv4 communication in a mixed environment that includes the inbox driver should work. IPv6 communication may be problematic in such an environment. - Added support for VM migration. When a VM is migrated from one host to another it does not send a new ARP to hosts it already knew when it was sitting on the first host. In order to prevent communication interruption to such hosts, the driver will initiate an ARP to learn them again. - Added mcast addresses according to the Windows mcast table in addition to mcast addresses from igmp\mld queries, in order to connect to such mcasts that are not reported by the queries. - Added support for the part_man tool. It can create only one additional IPoIB interface per port GUID. This feature can be utilized to use different IPoIB interfaces for SMB and Hyper-V. The virtual ports configuration is removed during uninstal - Added the following tools to the setup package: - ibv_asyncwatch.exe - ibv_atomic_bw.exe - ibv_atomic_lat.exe - ibv_devinfo.exe - ibv_rc_pingpong.exe - ibv_rdma_bw.exe - ibv_rdma_lat.exe - ibaddr.exe - ibcacheedit.exe - iblinkinfo.exe - ibqueryerrors.exe - ibsysstat.exe - saquery.exe - smpdump.exe - Modified RSS cores and changed VMQ affinity on the fly - Set an adequate number of MTTs to map all physical memory - Set QoS settings only for ConnectX-3. Changing the hardware ID, forces the OS to install new device and re-build the registry keys. - Allocated firmware and ICM memory in chunks of non-paged memory instead of using contiguous physical memory. - Allocated memory used in receive flow with the same affinity of the handling processor for faster access - Changed device names in device manager and their hardware IDs. The changes were made to distinguish between ConnectX®-2 and ConnectX®-3: - for ConnectX-2: MLX4\ConnectX-2_Eth and IBA\ConnectX-2_IPoIB - for ConnectX-3: MLX4\ConnectX-3_Eth and IBA\ConnectX-3_IPoIB - Enabled configuration of TxRingNum registry key from the UI - Improved the "Port Protocol" dialog - Improved performance in virtualization when using VMQ - Optimized code performance - Increased send parallelism - Statistics parameters are now directly read from hardware instead of being calculated by software - Use "BlueFlame" registry key to enable\disable this feature. - Removed some race conditions in IPoIB mcast handling - Removed redundant LID_CHANGE events. This fixes the redundant reconnection of all IPoIB mcasts. - Removed affinity restriction to group 0 for NDK - Installed ND by default
=============================================================================== 5. Known Issues ===============================================================================
- Generic - Pinning all the physical memory (used by RDMA operations, such as register memory, pin user memory) on the machine, on Operating Systems prior to Windows Server 2012, may cause the machine to hang. - When running applications that use ND or libibumad (such as OpenSM) the system might get to a unstable state when trying to shutdown/restart/hibernate it. - Activating NC-SI in WinOF v4.60 may cause driver’s loading failure when using an older firmware version than 2.30.8000. - The maximum values returned by the ib_query_ca() function (for example: max_qp, max_mr) are the upper limits of the supported resources by the device. However, it may be impossible to use these maximum values, since the actual number of any resource that can be created may be limited by the machine configuration, the amount of host memory, user permissions, and the amount of resources already in use by other users/processes. - Running Ntttcp without the “-a X” flag (X >1) in a NIC configured with 10GbE, may cause low bandwidth in TCP single stream. - Active links disappear after changing the cable connectivity from Ethernet to InfiniBand or vise versa. - On ConnectX®-2/ConnectX®-3 Ethernet adapter cards, there is a mismatch between the GUID value returned by firmware management tools and that returned by fabric/driver utilities that read the GUID via device firmware (e.g., using ibstat). Mlxburn/flint return 0xffff as GUID while the utilities return a value derived from the MAC address. For all driver/firmware/software purposes, the latter value should be used. - The UI displays the network interface’s state incorrectly even after disabling and re-enabling the "disconnected" network interfaces. To see the correct state and link speed, perform one of the following: - Run Get-netadapter Powershell cmdlet - Right click on that interface from “Network Con- nections” and click on status - WoL is not supported on Windows 2008 R2. - iSCSI boot over Windows 2008 R2 is not supported - Clearing the Mellanox device counters through perfmon does not always work.To resolve it user should restart the driver - When running in SRIOV mode and Hyper-V, the same driver version should be used on both the Hypervisor and the virtual machine. - Working with user space RDMA resources (i.e. ND) in parallel with hardware reset may cause unexpected behavior. - In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client, ConnectX-3 Pro is identified as ConnectX-3. This does not affect anything. - On rare occasions, as a result of port configuration change (IB/ETH) the UI may get stuck for up to a few minutes. This effect does not require any user action. The UI returns to its proper functionality after a few minutes. - The drivers’ functionality is limited up to 128 cores. - IPv6 traffic between Hyper-V hosts over IPoIB v-Switch may experience traffic loss. - Creating a virtual IPoIB port with non-default PKey isn't supported in the WinOF upgrade. Doing so will indicate that the adapter is unplugged after the upgrade ends. - InfiniBand application that was compiled with an SDK version earlier than WinOF v4.90 is not binary compatible. - WinOF 4.40 and above IPoIB driver is not IPv6 compatible with earlier driver versions, including Window 8 Inbox driver. If WinOF 4.50 IPoIB node receives an icmpv6 message from the legacy IPoIB node, the following event will appear in the event log: “IPoIB driver detected a possible incompatibility with Windows 8 inbox IPv6 support due to which there is no IPv6 connectivity”. - Without separate ports for each stream, WinSock multiplexes every packet to every subscriber socket and then filters it out . - A virtual IPoIB interface, created by the part_man utility, reports an Active state when the physical link is in the Initializing state and OpenSM is not running in the subnet - The "Packets Received Discarded" and "Packets Received Errors" counter may display wrong results. - Connection failure on ND tests while machine A have IBAL provider and machine B have MLX4ND provider. - Hibernate and Sleep are not functional when user-space is using its resources. - IPoIB does not support: - MAC address change - QoS (packet priority) - Connected Mode - In an interoperability environment that has both Linux and Windows OSs, the MTU value must be the same, otherwise packets larger than the minimum will not go through. The default MTU for Linux is 2K and for Windows is 4K. - OpenSM does not run as a service during installation since the SM requires the GUID parameter to decide which port to work on. Setting it on setup causes it to work only on the first port and not the others. - ibportstate does not work on RoCE ports - ibdiagpath may crash on Hyper-V machines - If an application which uses InfiniBand runs while the driver is being restarted, a bluescreen or an NMI may occur. - If OpenSM is up during driver restart on the same machine, it might stop working when the driver is being backed up. To resume operation, stop OpenSM and restart the driver while OpenSM is down. - Sometimes during traffic, the latency of the IPoIB can get higher (this behavior is inconsistent). Set the following registry in the IPoIB network interface: RecvIntModTime=0 Please note, this action increases the CPU utilization. - No communication between the physical interface and a VM that uses vSwitch created over virtual IPoIB (Pkey), and vice versa. - Burning a Firmware image with a "mtu_cap" value other than the default causes the driver load to fail. - Calling ib_query_cq() on a CQ which was created with 1 entry indicates that there are 0 entries in the CQ. - IPoIB ports report the configured MTU instead of the effective MTU. These MTUs differ when the corresponding InfiniBand partition is configured with a smaller MTU than the port’s configured MTU. In such case, there may be communication failures and/or CPU work overhead on the communicating nodes (even if the peer node is configured correctly). - The displayed MAC address in the DHCP server of virtual IPoIB I/F may display a wrong data (FF00........) although the I/F is still fully functional. - DHCP messages that IPoIB send are not fully spec complaint. The spec specifies that the 'chaddr' field must be zeroed, but WinOF IPoIB does not guarantee it.
- Ethernet - Disabling the "Priority & VLAN tag" in the UI which VLANID is configured, may result in sending packets with the configured VLANID. Remove the VLANID before disabling the "Priority & VLAN tag". - When working with LBFO, the teamed interface disappears after machine reboot. The issue applies to Windows Server 2012 R2 - WakeOnMagicPacket registry key is not added to the registry although WoL is supported by the driver and by the NIC. - When the ports of the device are configured as Ethernet only, ibstat/vstat may display wrong information. - High multicast drop rate on multicast storming. Use "Multicast traffic" tuning option under the performance tab. For further information, please refer to section “Tunable Performance Parameters” in the User Manual. - When there is a stress in TCP connection establishments, some of those connections may fail. Increase the Ring queue sizes: - ReceiveBuffers - controls the receive ring size - TransmitBuffers - controls the transmit ring size - The DCB component specifies a default traffic classification that is applied to all egress packets that do not match other classification conditions. In this case, the network adapter assigns the IEEE 802.1p priority level that is associated with the default classification to these egress packets. The default traffic classification has the following attributes: - It has a traffic classification condition of type NDIS_QOS_CONDITION_DEFAULT. - It is the first traffic classification defined in the array of NDIS_QOS_CLASSIFICATION_ELEMENT structures. - Disabling the ethernet adapter with more than 25 VLANs configured over windows server 2008 R2 \ windows server 7, may result with a non-responding server. - Virtual Ethernet Interfaces created by vea_man are not tuned by the automatic performance tuning script - In Windows Server 2008 R2, devices created by the Teaming driver do not show the correct OEM branding in the Device Manager. - Wake on Lan (WoL) cannot be disabled on NICs which supports it.
- Quality of Service - Running Quality of Service (QoS) commands without the parameter "-PolicyStore ActiveStore” may cause machines to load without Quality of Service policy. Store the QoS policy in the ActiveStore
- RoCE NVGRE - RoCE does not support: - Traffic cannot go through the router. It works in the same subnet only - Multicast traffic - VLAN - Layer 3 feature - In machines with heterogeneous NICs: a NIC which sup- ports RoCE v2, and a NIC which does not support RoCE v2 the following issus might raise: - Connect-X®-3 Pro is loaded with the transport type RoCE v2 - Connect-X®-3 is loaded with the transport type RoCE - When NVGRE off-load is enabled, the GRE traffic cannot be accepted as a regular L2 traffic and requires special L2_TUNNELING steering rules. In such case the GRE packets are dropped or directed to promiscuous queue. - Using different versions of RoCE in your cluster is not supported. - RDMA Activity counters do not count during NetworkDirect RoCE traffic. - GRE traffic steering by inner MAC and by outer MAC simultaneously is currently not supported. - If VMQ set filter requests are accepted without a GRE flag (i.e. requested steering by outer MAC), the GRE packets do not reach that VMQ.
- Performance - When using WinOF 4.40 or above, low throughput will be seen on 40GbE adapters when QoS is enabled. To solve it Disable QoS when it is not in use: - Open a PowerShell prompt. Run: - Disable-NetAdapter-Qos -name where is - e.g. "Ethernet 1" - Perf_tuning is supported only when one of the two NUMA nodes are in use. - Running performance benchmarks for a short period of time (< 1 sec) may provide bad latency in IPoIB and Ethernet. Set “Rx Interrupt Moderation Profile” and “Tx Interrupt Moderation Profile”, to “Low Latency” to avoid bad latency. Note: This may increase CPU utilization. - The driver uses optimal interrupt moderation values for 10 GbE SR-IOV VF scenario. For other scenarios, the optimal values yet to be found. - While running in a Virtual Machine (working with VF) or in a Native Machine, performance counters, if read directly or by using any tool (as Windows Task Manager), may show that no packet has been sent/received. This happens because the driver periodically examines the actual performance counters and caches the results. If the sample rate is too high, the counter values will remain the same.
- Hyper-V - When the vSwitch is detached from the ETH\IPoIB device while the driver is disabled, the device does not reacquire the static IP it had before the attachment of the vSwitch. When the vSwitch is attached to the ETH\IPoIB device while there is no link, it will not receive the device IP when the link is back up. - After attaching the vSwitch to the ETH\IPoIB device, changing the “Jumbo Packet” registry key on the ETH\IPoIB device does not affect the vSwitch configuration and vice versa. For example, if the user sets the “Jumbo Packet” on the ETH\IPoIB device to X, and the “Jumbo Packet” on the vSwitch to X+Y, X+Y sized packets will be passed from NDIS down to the driver and they will be dropped by it. Reattach the vSwitch to sync with the value set in the ETH\IPoIB device. - Unexpected behavior might occur when running in a virtualized environment and creating two virtual switches bound to each of the ports of a dual port NIC and then using both of them with two vNICs from the same VM. - In IPoIB when using long Multicast traffic from a Virtual Machine (VM) to an external host there might be up to 0.5% loss in 5% bursts - Hyper-V is at low bandwidth on LBFO vSwitch, Windows 2012 - In Ethernet to achieve better iperf TCP performance between a Linux VM and a Windows VM on different hosts, when using MS MUX over the Ethernet driver, use the non VMQ mode for the VMs. - After disabling and enabling a port on a guest, a ping to it may be renewed after a minute. The ARP requests sent by Windows are less frequent as the time passes. If the guest port was down for a while, it could take time until Windows decides to send another ARP request to it. - When VMQ is enabled after reset, the driver loads all the VMQs that existed before the reset. However, it is not guaranteed that each VMQ will receive the same QP number it had before the reset. This can cause some delay as a result of resetting before connectivity is reestablished. The delay is caused by the time it takes for the ARP table to update after initiating the Gratuitous ARP. - The IPoIB non-VMQ mode is supported only when the VMQ is enabled according to the registry values. To use the non-VMQ mode for a VM, change its settings as follow: - Press "Settings" on the VM - Go to Network Adapter -> Hardware Acceleration - Un-check the "Enable virtual machine queue" - SR-IOV - Working with Windows guest OS over non-Windows SR-IOV hypervisor may result with higher latency compared to Windows Hypervisor. - When working with OEM adapter cards in SR-IOV mode, the VF is identified as a Mellanox adapter. There is no other effect on the behavior of the VF. user should verify that the FW INI contains the parameter vf_subsystem_id with the OEM encoding in the [HCA] section. - An SR-IOV Virtual Machine is loaded in InfiniBand mode when no OpenSM is available in the subnet. The following event appears in the event log: “detected a null port GUID for port . A Virtual Function device may have a null port GUID if there is no OpenSM instance on its network. Please make sure the network has an active OpenSM and restart the driver.” User should start the OpenSM and restart the driver. - For InfiniBand SR-IOV guest, OpenSM Assigned GUIDs are not supported and may cause unexpected behavior User should work only with Administrator assigned GUIDs. - For InfiniBand SR-IOV guest, ND traffic does not work on an SR-IOV adapter when a Para-Virtualization adapter configured on the same virtual machine and the same subnet as IPoIB. User should disable the Para-Virtualization adapter. - In SR-IOV mode over Hyper-V, all ports are in pure Ethernet mode and RDMA is not supported on either port. - In SR-IOV mode, enabling SR-IOV in the BIOS may change the interfaces names. If any VSwitch is bounded to an interface whose name was changed, there will not be any way to perform any operation on them. User should unbond all Vswitches from the NIC's interfaces before enabling SR-IOV in the BIOS. - In SR-IOV, 40Gbps interfaces of vSwitch interface on HyperV, and the VMNIC are identified as 10Gbps. Despite the incorrect speed identification, they still achieve 40Gbps performance. - Device name in the Device Manager does not show the correct OEM branding for SR-IOV Virtual Function devices without the updated firmware - Installation / Upgrade - Upgrading the driver while the UI is opened with the "ConnectX NIC device" may cause the installation process to never end. Close the UI before driver upgrade. - Rebooting the machine reboot while uninstalling WinOF, may result in installation failure. Delete Mellanox components from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\DIFxApp\Components. The Mellanox components are mlx4eth63, ipoib6x and mlx4_bus - Canceling the installation process may leave the bus driver in a disable state. The driver appears in a yellow bang containing the following error message: “Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)”. Scan for new hardware and reboot the machine. - Downgrade is not supported. Uninstall the current version and install the older one. - Configuration is not restored when replacing a ConnectX-2/ConnectX-3 NIC with a ConnectX-3 Pro NIC located on the same PCI slot Clean the old network adapter configuration prior to upgrade. - Configuration can be restored only in Windows Server 2012 and above - IPv6 configuration restore is not supported - Upon upgrade, the following Registry Key values will be overwritten with the following: - ReceiveBuffers = 512 - MaxRssProcessors = 8 - RssBaseProcNumber = 0 - NumRSSQueues = 8 - RssMaxProcNumber = 63 - RssProfile = 1 - DefaultRecvRingProcessor = -1 - TxInterruptProcessor = -1 - TxForwardingProcessor = -1 - RxIntModerationProfile = 1 - TxIntModerationProfile = 1 - RecvCompletionMethod = 1 - SingleStream = 0 - TxRingNum = 8 - Upon upgrade the following Ethernet Registry Keys will be deleted: - SendCompletionMethod - UseRSSForRawIP - UseRSSForUDP - Upon upgrade the SendCompletionMethod IPoIB Registry Key value will be modified as follow: - SendCompletionMethod = 0 - Upon upgrade the following IPoIB Registry Keys will be deleted: - UseRSSForRawIP - UseRSSForUDP - Uninstalling the driver on Windows Server 2008 R2 with LBFO configuration results in the appearance of a pop-up window requesting to close several running applications. Choose "Do not close applications”. This action allows the uninstallation of the driver. A Reboot may be required. Rebooting the server before uninstalling the driver when LBFO is configured will eliminate this pop-up completely. - Running a downgrade in silent mode is not supported. Upon downgrade the return code will always be 0. - Uninstalling the driver after upgrade won't remove the directory %ProgramFiles%\Mellanox - Uninstalling the driver when multiple of VLANs are con- figured never ends. - mlxfwmanager which is supplied in the package is not signed. - The installation process does not close any applications running in the background, and may cause a BSOD as a result of a stuck cmd. It is recommended to close all running applications prior to upgrading the driver. - Installation/upgrade fails due to PNP failure to copy the driver files to the driver store, and the following text is printed in the event logs: Fault bucket, type 0 Event Name: PnPDriverImportError Response: Not available Attached files: C:\Users\\App- Data\Local\Temp\DMI151A.tmp.log.xml C:\Program Files\Mella- nox\MLNX_VPI\ETH\mlx4eth63.inf To solve it reboot the machine and reinstall. - Installation/upgrade fails due to failure to stop the WMI service. The following text is printed in the installation log:“CustomAction StopWMIService returned actual error code 1603” - Users should kill the WMIPrvSE.exe tasks in the task manager and reinstall. - Following the upgrade of Mellanox driver to WinOF-4.60 and above or on servers with no internet access, the first PowerShell command might be stuck for ~2- 3 minutes before its completed. According to the following content, this issue is related to .Net framework version or an issue with the internet access:http://www.minasi.com/forum/ topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39253. users should Run the following script on the server to optimizes loading PowerShell DLLs: $Env:PATH = [Runtime.InteropSer- vices.RuntimeEnvironment]::GetRuntime- Directory() [AppDomain]::CurrentDomain.GetAssem- blies() | % { $pt = $_.Location if (! $pt) {continue} if ($cn++) {''} $na = Split-Path -Leaf $pt Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "NGENing $na" ngen install $pt} - On ConnectX-3 cards only, when upgrading from Windows 2012R2 Inbox driver to WinOF, the RoCE mode setting in the registry is not properly transferred to the new driver. In case a non-default value was used it will not be configured following the upgrade. - Uninstall from the Device Manager is currently not supported - WinOF Inbox driver does not support upgrade. When installing WinOF v4.40 and above on a Windows Server 2012 and above machine, the Inbox driver is uninstalled prior to starting the new installation and any previous configurations is lost. The Inbox driver will be reinstalled automatically when the new driver is uninstalled. - Firmware upgrade may fail during installation if there was a prior firmware upgrade on the machine without a reboot after it. A firmware upgrade failure does not fail the whole installation. - If there are disabled network interfaces or a disabled Mellanox bus driver, they will be enabled after the WinOF upgrade. - The upgrade from WinOF v4.58 to WinOF v4.90 saved only the configuration of the Ethernet interface, and did not save the configuration of the IPoIB interface.
- Utilities - ibdump may encounter packet drops upon a burst of more than 4096 (or 2^max-burst) packets. - Packets loss is not reported by ibdump. - Running ibdump on a RoCE Ethernet port may decrease the functional bandwidth due to the over- head of creating extra copy for each packet. This may lead to packet drops on the link. users should verify Ethernet flow control is enable to ensure a lossless link. - Pcap file issues for RoCE v1.5: - The packets 'capture-time' field is wrong (may be 0 or negative numbers). - For every captured packet, an additional 0 size flame is added. This appears in Wireshark as a 'malformed Ethernet packet'. - Sniffing over IB ports is currently not supported. - Creating virtual adapters over IPoIB using part_man is currently not supported in all OEM adapter cards. - When the tracer tool traces many events, it may consume a large amount of memory (up to several GB RAM).
- CIM/WMI - Running Microsoft CIM cmdlets operations and their derived classes on classes MLNX_NetAdapterSettingData and MLNX_NetAdapterRoceSettingData is not sup- ported. Calling those commands may cause the debugger, if connected to the machine, to assert. Users should use DriverCoreSettings instead. - For PCI Gen3, PcieLinkSpeed is reported as “Unknown” when running Get-NetAdapterHard- wareInfo Powershell cmdlet.
- ND - There is an interoperability problem between NDK and ND in RDMA operations during the write and read operations. However, the send operation resumes working. This happens since ND uses remote token in a network order (big endian) while NDK uses remote token in CPU order (little endian). Therefore, an inconsistency is caused between ND and NDK in RDMA operations. An ND application that works with NDK using RDMA operations must handle this issue by changing the remote token to the appropriate byte order before sending it to NDK. - When working with the default NDv1 and NDv2 providers, the following error message might be displayed: 0xC0000120 NT_STATUS_CANCELLED This error does not affect any functionality and can be safely ignored. - Changing the default ND providers may cause random errors, such as: 0xC0000238 (NT_STATUS_ADDRESS_ALREADY_ASSOCIATED) on Connect() or with 0xC0000236 (NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) on Accept(). These errors can be safely ignored.
=============================================================================== 6. Bug Fixes History =============================================================================== 6.1 WinOF VPI v4.80 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed driver load failure in machines with 1 TB memory and above - Fixed rare cases of driver hang following a Subnet Manager failover event - Fixed SM fail-over causing the driver to hang - Fixed stability issues - Fixed performance tuning for 1GbE link - Fixed possible reset of driver during migration of large number of VMs at the same time - Fixed stability issues - Fixed missing pause response by sender when using DSCP/untag priority tag mode with ETS enabled - Fixed wrong return value in IND2Adapter::QueryAddressList - Fixed installation stuck when Remote Desktop Session Host Windows Installer RDS compatibility is enabled
6.2 WinOF VPI v4.70 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed an issue which caused Mellanox miniport devices to be listed in “Devices and Printers” - Fixed Ethernet and IPoIB deadlock in power state change during shutdown/reboot - Fixed stability issues - Fixed part_man exit with return value 0 in case of error - Fixed ibstat behavior on devices with RoCE enabled - Fixed releasing of RDMA resources and reacquire them on power down and up. - Fixed RDMA Activity counters which didn't increase for ND traffic - Fixed hard-coded limitation of 4 SGEs - Fixed vstat printing of counters for Ethernet ports - Fixed removal of virtual IPoIB ports in uninstallation
6.3 WinOF VPI v4.61 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Ensured that uninstallation of Mellanox package in Virtual Machine leaves the system clean - Fixed an issue preventing JumboPackets registry key to be restored correctly - Fixed an issue which caused Mellanox devices to be listed in "Devices and Printers" and had "Safe Removal" UI - Fixed error statistics collection which could cause false error report - Fixed a connectivity problem between Hyper-V VMs on the same host - Fixed loopback issues in the virtualization environment - Fixed stability issues - Fixed an issue that prevented receiving ARP traffic in NVGRE mode
6.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed using CQ after VMQ is closed - Fixed bad completion of VMQ QP that was caused by malformed WR - Fixed an issue occurred when uninstalling and reinstalling the driver. The ConnectX-3 Pro Ethernet device was displayed in the Device Manager with a yellow bang (!). - Fixed an issues enabling the package’s execution in modify mode resulting in driver being disabled - Fixed an issue occurred when uninstalling and reinstalling the driver. The ConnectX-3 Pro Ethernet device was displayed in the Device Manager with a yellow bang (!). - Fixed random parsing failures of string registry entries - Fixed compilation failure of "Hello_world" in the SDK - Fixed the return value of ib_query_ca() if failed to allocate resources for operation - Fixed RoCE mode parsing - Fixed CPU utilization report in nd_*_* tests - Fixed correct bandwidth peak results in ibv_send_bw with UD QP - Fixed sync problems of bidirectional mode in ibv_read_bw/ibv_write_bw - Fixed missing completions when working with Completion Queue with single entry - Fixed unexpected behavior upon QP asynchronous event - Fixed bad completions of VMQ and NonVMQ modes in IPoIB - Fixed a failure occurred when setting the IPoIB adapter value to "SA Query Timeout" - Fixed propagation of the physical link disconnection to virtual (part_man) interface - Fixed un-initialized memory access over the VMQ - Fixed port channel teaming with CISCO switch and Fabric Extenders traffic loose in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Fixed an issue related to packets sent with corrupted VLAN header when they were meant to be untagged - Fixed unexpected behavior upon QP asynchronous event - Stability fixes - Fixed ConformsToProfiles association for SoftwareIdentity and DriverIdentity - Fixed execution of all tests which were running when executing Diagnostic tests on one instance - Fixed a failure occurred when running MLNX_Card - Fixed the printing of diagnostics log - Fixed an issue preventing from get-event to show information after disabling the PCI device
6.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed nd_*_bw to achieve better performance (memory buffer alignment) and consistent results - Fixed the issue preventing messages to be sent in VLAN 0 when using many VMQ rings - Fixed a part_man issue related to wrong statistics over virtual partman interfaces
6.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Removed port setting registry key during uninstallation - Fixed an issue causing the setup to fail upon perf_tune failure during the installation. An error message will be printed in the installation log upon perf_tune failure. - Fixed and issue with the Mellanox adapter being shown on the USB removal menu, which caused the removal of the Mellanox adapter once removing the USB. - Fixed the perf_tuning indication of the last chosen tuning scenarios - Fixed a crash in the ib_send_lat/bw utilities caused when the port link was down - Fixed the “Restore to defaults” option in the perf_tuning tool. Now the default values are being restored - Fixed WoL support on NIC with a single port - Fixed the default RoCE configuration on NICs with a single ports - Fixed the values for the MTU and rate of the CM-REQ - Fixed miniport reset on sending scenarios - Fixed a bluescreen issue that occurred when disabling the interface after a TX stress over the VMQ - Fixed a failure of MPI/ND over InfiniBand - Network Direct: Fixed a crash occurred when more than 4 SGEs elements were used in an ND write operation - Network Direct: Fixed the swap of InboundReadLimit and OutboundReadLimit when creating an EndPoint and in Connector::GetConnectionData - Network Direct: Fixed disallowing creation of EndPoint with zero attributes in the Receive Queue - Network Direct: Fixed a failure when creating an EndPoint with zero attributes in the Receive Queue
6.7 WinOF VPI v4.2 Bug Fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed restart issue when there are not enough MSI-X vectors for each machine core - Fixed RSS indirection table mapping building when there are less RX rings than RSS cores - Fixed a bug, preventing standard work with BAR value more than 4GB. - Fixed memory leaks - Fixed error flows causing a Bluescreen in driver startup/unload - Fixed a Bluescreen occurrence upon shutdown due to leak in active resources - Fixed a bug that prevented IBAL applications from working on machines with 2 cards - Fixed a bug that caused packet drop on remote node when the first sent packet is not an ARP or a multicast packet - Fixed IPoIB VMQ affinity update bugs - Fixed IPoIB VMQ parent queue management race during reset - Fixed a bug in passing DHCP packets from a Linux VM - Fixed bug in RDMA statistics for NDK
=============================================================================== 7. API Changes ===============================================================================
7.1 WinOF VPI v4.90 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- struct ib_mad_element_t - Added the field rroce_udp_s_port struct ib_av_attr_t - Added the field rroce_udp_s_port VERBS_MINOR_VER - Increased its value, 0x00c -> 000d
7.2 WinOF VPI v4.80 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - RDMA_TRANSPORT_RDMAOE_1 is an alias to RDMA_TRANSPORT_RDMAOE - Added enumerated values RDMA_TRANSPORT_RDMAOE_1_25 - Added new functions is_roce(), is_mac_based_roce(), is_ip_based_roce(), is_rroce_or_ip_based_roce() - p_next in struct ib_wc_t was replaced with an anonymous union which contains two fields: p_next and qp_context
7.3 WinOF VPI v4.70 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added a new function ib_get_port_spl_qp() - Changed API (one more input parameter was added to ib_get_mad_inner() - Changed API (one more input parameter was added to ib_get_mad() - VERBS_MINOR_VER value was changed from 000a to 000c - Added a new macro for UNBOUND_PORT_NUM
7.4 WinOF VPI v4.60 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added a new macro for IB_MOD_QP_CHANGE_COUNTER_INDEX - Added the field state.rtr.counter_index for struct ib_qp_mod_t
7.5 WinOF VPI v4.55 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added enumerated values for RDMA_TRANSPORT_RRDMAOE_1_5 - Added enumerated values for RDMA_TRANSPORT_RRDMAOE_2_0 - Added enumerated values for RDMA_TRANSPORT_RRDMAOE It is an alias to RDMA_TRANSPORT_RRDMAOE_1_5 - Added new functions for is_rroce(), is_xroce() - Added a new macro for IB_AC_SNIFFER - Added the field state.init.flags for struct ib_qp_mod_t
7.6 WinOF VPI v4.40 API Changes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Increased the value of VERBS_MINOR_VER - 0009 -> 000a - Added enumerated values for enum eth_link_speeds - struct ib_port_attr_t: - The mtu field was separated into two fields: - max_mtu (maximum MTU supported by the port) - active_mtu (actual MTU which the port is configured with) - Added the eth_link_speed field - Added enumerated values for WR_SEND_INV - The type of invalidate_rkey for struct ib_send_wr_t was changed from net32_t -> ib_net32_t - Added the send Write flag for IB_SEND_OPT_SKIP_DOORBELL mlnx_fw_nic_4_90_50000p6_windows_x86-64_chg
QLogic 10 GbE Converged Network Adapter MultiFlash Update for System x IBM P3P Firmware Change History QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
Package Version 2.20.22
Updated QCCCLI
Release Version: 2.20.22
Table of Contents 1. Version 2. Changes 3. Limitations 4. Known Issues 5. Additional Information 6. Trademarks 7. Notices 8. Contacting Support
1. Version
The files contained in this Flash image package are zipped into a file that will expand to provide the following versions for the 3200/8200 Series Adapters.
* Flash Image Version 2.20.22
P3P22022.BIN contains: ---------------------- * NIC PXE (3200/8200 Series) PXE 3.0 version 2.0.2.37 PXE EFi version 2.6.19 signed * FCoE BIOS (8200 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 3.27 uEFI version 6.09 Signed * iSCSI BIOS (8200 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 2.19 uEFI version 2.04.12 signed * Firmware - v4.16.151 * Pegtune - v4.16.32 * Bootloader - v4.16.05 * CRBinit - v4.12.07
* QLflash version 1.0.0.14
***********************************************
* Flash Image Version 2.20.18
P3P22018.BIN contains: ---------------------- * NIC PXE (3200/8200 Series) PXE 3.0 version 2.0.2.37 PXE EFi version 2.06.19 A4 * FCoE BIOS (8200 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 3.25 uEFI version 6.08 * iSCSI BIOS (8200 Series only) BIOS 3.0 version 2.19 uEFI version 2.04.11 * Firmware - v4.16.150 * Pegtune - v4.16.32 * Bootloader - v4.16.05 * CRBinit - v4.12.07
Hardware Support Standard Servers with PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 x8
3. Limitations
None
Industry Standards Compliance N/A
4. Known Issues
5. Additional Information None
6. Trademarks Accelera, Accelerating Cluster Performance, InfiniCon Systems, InfiniNIC, InfiniPath, InfiniView, QLA, QLogic, the QLogic logo, ReadyPath, SANdoctor, SANsurfer, and SilverStorm are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
7. Notices Information furnished in this document is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications described in this document for any of these products are only for illustrative purposes. QLogic Corporation makes no representation nor warranty that such applications are suitable for the specified use without further testing or modification. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.
8. Contacting Support Please feel free to contact your QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic Technical Support can be reached at:
Gary Stift gary.stift@qlogic.com
(c) Copyright 2014. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic logo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
This release contains the following software programs:
NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet NDIS6.x for Microsoft Windows 2008/2012/2012R2, 32 bit extensions - b57nd60x.sys NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet NDIS6.x for Microsoft Windows 2008/2012/2012R2, 64 bit extensions - b57nd60a.sys
* Third-party trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
Broadcom, Broadcom Advanced Server Program, Broadcom Advanced Server Control Suite, and Smart Load Balance are registered trademarks of Broadcom Corporation.