************************************ LSI Corp. MegaRAID Firmware Release ************************************ Release date: 05/21/12 ====================== Supported Controllers: ====================== MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i MegaRAID SAS 9260CV-4i MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i MegaRAID SAS 9260CV-8i MegaRAID SAS 9260DE-8i MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e MegaRAID SAS 9280DE-8e MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i ******* This firmware supports Cachecade Pro 2.0 (if activated) for the controllers mentioned above. ******* This single firmware image can be used on all of the controllers mentioned above (no longer need separate image for the high-port-count controllers) . Component: ========= SAS MegaRAID Firmware Release for MegaRAID Controllers Release date: 05/21/2012 Version Numbers: =============== Current Firmware Package (with CacheCade Pro 2.0): 12.12.0-0102 (Merged) Current Package Details: APP-2.130.293-1580_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.24.00_4.12.05.00_0x05160000_HII-_WEBBIOS-6.0-48-e_44-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01900008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0031_2012_03_22 Previous Firmware Package (with CacheCade Pro 2.0): 12.12.0-0091 Previous Package Details: APP-2.130.243-1483_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.24.00_4.12.05.00_0x05120000_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01900008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0029_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2012_01_07 Bug Fixes and Enhancements: =========================== Firmware: ========= LSIP200223753 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200221295) Reboot Causes HSP to Revert to Unconfigured Good LSIP200222937 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200210145) Adding/Removing FoD key causes Legacy BIOS to stop and not continue LSIP200222809 (DFCT) Amber LED flashes during copyback after rebuilding degraded VD LSIP200223758 (DFCT) Falcon FW - 1509/recon starting and progressing in 1.21 HII LSIP200223351 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200223304) R5/R6 enabled using FOD and do a OCR on controller;R5 VD comes up as foreign once OCR is done LSIP200229774 (DFCT) 10M09 Liberator: Querying SMART / PFA Status Returns All Zeros in Sense Data LSIP200225195 (DFCT) Clearing excess drive error LSIP200230774 (DFCT) FW fails to create configuration and utilites fail to report the VD size after the reconstruction. LSIP200222944 (DFCT) HDD powersave options still shown in Ctrl Info,VD info & VD creation menus of HII becase FW reports it supports PS LSIP200187938 (DFCT) SATA FDE disk not recognized as FDE, SAS model is LSIP200223120 (DFCT) Secured Drives Counts as Two Physical Drives LSIP200230641 (DFCT) Megamon during import of FC from MR to iMR contoller LSIP200210843 (DFCT) Battery is < 623mAH and LUNS in writeback mode LSIP200229432 (DFCT) Port LSIP200211420 to Liberator - Upon OCR, Recon Ghost LD needs to be created before WJ processing LSIP200223461 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200223341) If you enable security on controller using FOD and create secure VD it goes missing upon reboot. LSIP200221295 (DFCT) Reboot Causes HSP to Revert to Unconfigured Good LSIP200222969 (DFCT) (RW LSIP200222956) (CL LSIP200222934) After OCR+reboot, user is asked to hit enter to ack the activated FOD features on LSIP200199420 (DFCT) 'clear' tasks on disks always show 0% complete when doing 'init' task on RAID volume LSIP200222391 (DFCT) BBU Charging gets disabled when Transparent Relearn fails to start due to low capacity LSIP200223703 (DFCT) HWR: 10M09: PD other error counter never increments LSIP200229673 (DFCT) Fix compilation issue LSIP200230643 (DFCT) Error message pop out in HII when set to factory default. LSIP200222594 (DFCT) Windows blue screen while in background rebuild process LSIP200222918 (DFCT) cannot auto rebuild while we put a clean - JBOD LSIP200222956 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200222934) After OCR+reboot, user is asked to hit enter to ack the activated FOD features on OEM system. LSIP200210345 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Read Locate LED state via BMC LSIP200229612 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Change EDV values in iBBU07 to improve accuracy with aging batery packs LSIP200151207 (CR) Read Locate LED state via BMC LSIP200224034 (CR) Change EDV values in iBBU07 to improve accuracy with aging batery packs WebBIOS: ======== LSIP200223149 (DFCT) HII/HII browser sluggishness is seen when exiting browser, going to EFI WebBIOS, and then going back to HII browser LSIP200223217 (DFCT) IMR-Web Bios shown Configured drives option in Manage power save settings LSIP200230109 (DFCT) Grammatical error in WebBIOS. LSIP200224127 (DFCT) In WebBIOS, Drive Group Definition screen, enclosures should not be selectable in the Drives column LSIP200230031 (DFCT) In EFI-WebBIOS (ver: 4.0-e_45-Rel), the white bars do not match up under VD properties page. BIOS: ======== Numerous UEFI and HII updates NVDATA: ======= Numerous NVDATA changes Installation: ============= Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers. MegaCLI can be downloaded from the support and download section of www.lsi.com. Command syntax: MegaCli -adpfwflash -f mr2108fw.rom -a0 ============================== Previous Releases ============================== Component: ========= SAS MegaRAID Firmware Release for MegaRAID Controllers Release date: 01/30/2012 Version Numbers: =============== Current Firmware Package (with CacheCade Pro 2.0): 12.12.0-0091 Current Package Details: APP-2.130.243-1483_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.24.00_4.12.05.00_0x05120000_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01900008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0029_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2012_01_07 Previous Firmware Package (2108 with CacheCade Pro 2.0) : 12.12.0-0077 Previous Package Details: APP-2.130.163-1437_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.22.00_4.11.05.00_0x05060000_HII-_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01800008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0026_2011_11_01 Previous Firmware Package (High-Port-Count controllers with CacheCade Pro 2.0): 12.12.0-0080 Previous Package Details: APP-2.130.163-1437_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.22.00_4.11.05.00_0x05060000_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01800008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0026_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2011_11_10 Previous Firmware Package (High-Port-Count controllers without CacheCade Pro 2.0): 12.12.0-0074 Previous Package Details: APP-2.120.183-1415_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.23.00_4.11.05.00_0x05080000_WEBBIOS-6.0-45-e_40-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01800008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0024_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2011_10_06 Bug Fixes and Enhancements: =========================== Firmware: ========= LSIP200209948 (CO) Generally available support of selected battery modes for iBBU08. LSIP200199484 (CO) Enable copy back on SMART - Liberator LSIP200151375 (CO) Need StopOnError functionality when SafeStore passphrase is enabled LSIP200199858 (CO) add display of ibbu communication retry counter in fw log LSIP200188345 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200185468) extended retries of write verify command causes driver timeout LSIP200211360 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200209847) Pulling VD 0 from an R60 and rebooting, 2 foreign configs when array 0 LSIP200199863 (DFCT) UnconfigGood PD fails to kick in as EHS (Emergency Hot Spare) LSIP200212811 (DFCT) Advanced features key have to be re-entered LSIP200050209 (DFCT) DATA TLB error exception in case of manual removal/insertion of drives. LSIP200051385 (DFCT) R1 rebuild hangs at 50% mark after CC is run LSIP200051392 (DFCT) Fw broke into MegaMon while writing a test file to a VD (R6) from a non MR disk. LSIP200221925 (DFCT) SATA workaround handles LBA incorrectly for 6-byte read CDB LSIP200186584 (DFCT) Logical Unit ID (VPD page 0x83) changed after foreign import LSIP200198521 (DFCT) P16 set properties command fails LSIP200212818 (DFCT) Port forward LSIP200211068 to main stream liberator maintenance LSIP200212644 (DFCT) Sepaton noticed additional fan speed event messages every 2 minutes LSIP200186884 (DFCT) DelaySOD is not working on customer Liberator boards LSIP200150532 (DFCT) Liberator FW cause system (sles11sp1/rhel6) reset while lspci -vvx LSIP200188226 (DFCT) can't sustain at least 950 MBps performance with Cache Flush setting 1 sec LSIP200200459 (DFCT) MegaCli prematurely returns exit 0x0 status on drive firmware flash LSIP200209349 (DFCT) Enable PCI capability Bit for VPD exsupport. LSIP200198466 (DFCT) wrong slot # reported by megaraid compared to physical slot for EG disk LSIP200199687 (DFCT) “Non-Transparent” learns seen with Mode 3 LSIP200210349 (DFCT) BBUmode incorrectly set LSIP200210823 (DFCT) No data is copied to target array after more than 15 secs LSIP200212264 (DFCT) Multibit ECC error with customer Liberator MR board and vmware ESXi5.0 LSIP200199735 (DFCT) LSI Mega RAID SAS-MFI BIOS Register state 0xF0010002 LSIP200211484 (DFCT) MR bios show "adapter at baseport is not responding" intermittence LSIP200186966 (DFCT) configuration becomes foreign after fw fails 3-4 attempts to access raid key during boot LSIP200210596 (DFCT) too many messages in fw log "ArDiskTypeMisMatch : SAS_SATA_MIXING_VIOLATION” LSIP200155948 (DFCT) FW seems to incorrectly mark ibbu's SOH bad (iBBU07, ibbu05, ibbu01) LSIP200209279 (DFCT) additional reboot required after updating ibbu FCC to design capacity LSIP200210505 (DFCT) OEM requests qty of prints to be reduced in fw log for ibbu i2c communication retries LSIP200212471 (DFCT) FW automatically starts learn cycles on ibbu08 every reboot LSIP200211810 (DFCT) Battery failed message during learn cycle LSIP200212311 (DFCT) Battery failed message during learn cycle LSIP200199812 (DFCT) Alarm sounds with online VD's after flashing latest 10M09 Patch 16 firmware (2.120.163-1343) LSIP200199961 (DFCT) LDBBM entries are incorrect after foreign import LSIP200186336 (DFCT) Controller does not work with pci set to nomsi in kdump kernel LSIP200209455 (DFCT) Potential data integrity issue while running the IO on degraded R5 VDs with 32 drives. LSIP200200117 (DFCT) unexpected Power State Change events occur LSIP200185441 (DFCT) Disk performance disparity between WB controller cache on and off on system disks LSIP200210751 (DFCT) Patrol Read fails on R1 with around 2000 double medium errors LSIP200210768 (DFCT) Enabling security causes the config to be missing, and a configured FDE array to be seen as foreign on reboot. LSIP200209385 (DFCT) Intermittent RAID key failure during power-on LSIP200209329 (DFCT) FoD features will not activate or deactivate LSIP200199416 (DFCT) Change BBU-08 support Firmware Mode5 WB capacity from 960mAh to 674mAh for low power DDR-2 LSIP200199331 (DFCT) Older ibbu batteries display 65K capacity and are marked SOH bad LSIP200199335 (DFCT) Request FW to not mark ibbu battery as bad when very high capacity is detected LSIP200196885 (DFCT) Batteries Not Charging properly on OEM controller LSIP200209376 (DFCT) OEM requests ibbu i2c communication retries to be displayed in fw log Webbios: ======== None BIOS: ======== LSIP200199737 (DFCT) server System posts 'R00' as 'R0' during the reboot LSIP200199163 (DFCT) Legacy BIOS BBS Boot Issues LSIP200196810 (DFCT): SWR-Macon: After installing the OS, unable to boot from SCU VD LSIP200199602 (DFCT): FW hangs during POST after flashing new BIOS LSIP200018807 (DFCT): BIOS sees extra characters "0%" at end of particular product name LSIP200156493 (DFCT): There is no space between FW version and capacity in the table where Adp/VD/PD info is displayed Numerous UEFI and HII updates NVDATA: ======= Numerous NVDATA changes Installation: ============= Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers. MegaCLI can be downloaded from the support and download section of www.lsi.com. Command syntax: MegaCli -adpfwflash -f mrCCP2.rom -a0 Component: ========= SAS MegaRAID Firmware Release for MegaRAID Controllers Release date: 11/15/11 Includes support for CacheVault and CacheCade Pro 2.0 features (on appropriately enabled controllers) Version Numbers: =============== Current Firmware Package: 12.12.0-0077 Current Package Details: APP-2.130.163-1437_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.22.00_4.11.05.00_0x05060000_HII-_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01800008_BOOT-09.250.01.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0026_2011_11_01 Previous Firmware Package (CacheVault): PKG_CFL_12.12.0-0006 Previous Package Details: APP-2.120.73-1289_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.22.00_4.11.05.00_0x05030000_WEBBIOS-6.0-35-e_30-Rel_PCLI-04.04-017_SPRINT400008_BOOT-01.250.04.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0014_2011_05_25 Previous Firmware Package (CacheCade): 12.13.0-0104 Previous Package Details: APP-2.130.03-1332_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.20.00_4.11.05.00_0x0418A000_WEBBIOS-6.0-42-e_37-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01900008_BOOT-01.250.04.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0012_2011_08_05 Bug Fixes and Enhancements: =========================== Firmware: Based on 10M09 P15 LSIP200188321 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Support CacheVault with CacheCade Pro 2.0 LSIP200187926 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Change Liberator BBU-08 support Firmware Mode5 WB capacity from 960mAh to 674mAh for low power D LSIP200187931 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) disable bad phy checking logic from iMR FW for certain ROMB design LSIP200149890 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) SW licensing. Support FoD for PF activations on iMR/2008 LSIP200187910 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Request to use Unconfigured Good Drives for a HotSpare if no spare defined in liberator LSIP200187724 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) MR fw should Enable puncturing for SATA drives LSIP200187937 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) MegaRaid does not pick up replacement drives in PD if replacement is added during power cycle LSIP200186977 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Alert should be sent when one phy connector between Liberator card and SAS expander is degraded LSIP200186343 (CO) (LSIP200140211) Add support to pass SMART errors for JBOD drives to MSM LSIP200147589 (CO) (LSIP200170593) B/G: manufacturing: suppress first relearn LSIP200200361 (DFCT) FW hit monstak when create PRL 11 LSIP200209556 (DFCT) DATA TLB ERROR exception: sf c01ffd60 when pull out power cord while I/O are running LSIP200209619 (DFCT) Possible data integrity issue with multiple RAID + changing VD policy while I/O running LSIP200185599 (DFCT) LED behavior incorrect, drive 3 blinks when drive 0 is accessed LSIP200150304 (DFCT) memory test for 2108 in 10M09 FW fails LSIP200149986 (DFCT) MSM log shows "Battery cannot initiate transparent learn cycles" due to BBU is under mode 5. LSIP200060949 (DFCT) iBBU07 reported remaining capacity is much too high (64751 mAh) after a learn cycle LSIP200151502 (DFCT) BBU Absolute Charge is displayed differently LSIP200149843 (DFCT) VPD (Vital Product Data) needs to show correct Part number LSIP200149844 (DFCT) VPD (Vital Product Data) needs to identify PCB hardware level LSIP200151221 (DFCT) CLI/EFI CLI/PCLI fail to create a VD on MR LSIP200148150 (DFCT) WHQL WLK1.6 - SCSI Compliance Test 2.0 and Read Capacity 16 Unit FAILS on Liberator LSIP200184970 (DFCT) HWR: 10M09: not able to disable BGI with MegaCLI LSIP200173287 (DFCT) HWR: bbuMode is not in WebBIOS after flashing from 10M05 to 10M09 LSIP200186406 (DFCT) Code Review defect to deliver rest of changes for PFK preboot support. LSIP200186594 (DFCT) R5 pfk feature not getting enabled at boot time on iMR LSIP200186595 (DFCT) After loading FoD key, iMR controller does not perform upgrade of features LSIP200184943 (DFCT) Need ability to boot with pinned cache with any raid config on Gen 2 MegaRAID/Liberator defaulted to ON LSIP200185931 (DFCT) Bootwithpinnedcache not default set to '1' for castorlite when suboem is '1' LSIP200151328 (DFCT) HWR: EF & 10M09: bluescreen occurs handling R1 with HSP and medium errors LSIP200149597 (DFCT) Liberator FW : Entire VD Configuration is cleared on next boot after snapshot feature is disabled. LSIP200100479 (DFCT) NVDIMM unrecoverable memory errors treated similar to ECC errors LSIP200100537 (DFCT) Adding Premiumfeatured reqd bit and ENABLE_SAVE in set and reset LED LSIP200100786 (DFCT) Cache offload : Fw initialization faild after flashing the Cache offload app to Liberator board. LSIP200100800 (DFCT) In pinned cache to be in WT, bootup error cases, bbumain and bootup with regular controller LSIP200105734 (DFCT) IO path size increased after merging to 10m09 code base and the ECC error fix LSIP200113125 (DFCT) For cache offload modules to stage BIOS from SRAM LSIP200114431 (DFCT) Update the cap pacakge version information to the VPD area LSIP200114426 (DFCT) CacheOffload : Write Property is changing from WB to WT during rebuild operation. LSIP200114471 (DFCT) CacheOffload : Firmware breaks to MegaMon while doing OCR when pinned cache cache is present. LSIP200119766 (DFCT) The I2C commands should not be sent during the Learn cycle LSIP200119787 (DFCT) Firmware breaks to MegaMon while doing OCR when pinned cache cache is present.(2) LSIP200120034 (DFCT) Adding 2msec delay after every I2C transaction LSIP200121171 (DFCT) CacheOffload : While reading the VPD information firmware is breaking to MegaMon. LSIP200123172 (DFCT) pfk_nvarm_clear option added for updating the PFK NVRAM both romid and crc LSIP200123191 (DFCT) To support the Subvendor and Sub Device Ids for the cacheoffload LSIP200095206 (DFCT) Cache ofload : Reconstruction continues even when Pinned cache is present. LSIP200134429 (DFCT) The upload feature tested with 0.6 FW and FW download timeout value reduced LSIP200135106 (DFCT) To support the tmmfru id in EepromWriteMfg2Data LSIP200125315 (DFCT) CacheOffload : Controller cache discarded due to memory/battery problems. LSIP200137154 (DFCT) Cacheoffload :Online upgrade of Powergem with 06 fw shows error. LSIP200125290 (DFCT) with 0.6 FW the download process takes 9 to 10 min's approxmiately and the upload process takes 3 to 4min's LSIP200144816 (DFCT) Fault LED on module glows continously LSIP200146636 (DFCT) CacheOffload : 5% reserve pool gf module is not posting the expected events. LSIP200153376 (DFCT) After FW download reset after exiting from PMODE LSIP200147680 (DFCT) CacheOffload : Online upgarde of .8 fw corrupts the VPD information. LSIP200147681 (DFCT) Cacheoffload : communication loss while running the relearn script for multiple times. LSIP200147688 (DFCT) pack energy calculation, support for backup inhibit in 1.0, increase in nvdata size and code review changes LSIP200147767 (DFCT) Increase in nvdata uncompress size after nvdata rebase to 10m09 LSIP200148965 (DFCT) CacheOFFLoad : Reconstruction does not start when "enableCTIO" is set to "1". LSIP200149213 (DFCT) fru id event logged only if valid id present LSIP200149034 (DFCT) Cacheoffload : SATA PD not getting detected while connecting it as direct attached. LSIP200096885 (DFCT) Cacheoffload 10m09 merge LSIP200097050 (DFCT) Cacheoffload: Write Policy is not changing while Battery relearn is in progress. LSIP200097349 (DFCT) Cache offload: VD with WB can be created even when enableCacheOffload is dissabled in MFc settings. LSIP200098524 (DFCT) Cache offload : Battery learn starts even when cache offload feature is disable in MFc. LSIP200099276 (DFCT) PFK Disable,extended header for FW download and gtg timeout after reset LSIP200099393 (DFCT) The check for GTG added after releasing the NF image LSIP200134428 (DFCT) Double dip and 3.2 spec compatibility BIOS: ====== LSIP200042149 DAS Cache Offload Management LSIP200139406 Three 9260/80 controllers cant boot from MR LD with post 10M09 12.12.0-0036 LSIP200152136 Attempting to load WebBIOS causes some systems to hang LSIP200134837 FW revision is not displayed in the Bios' controller list Installation: ============= Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers. MegaCLI can be downloaded from the support and download section of www.lsi.com. Command syntax: MegaCli -adpfwflash -f mr2108fw.rom -a0 Component: ========= SAS MegaRAID Firmware Release for MegaRAID Controllers Release date: 04/15/2011 Version Numbers: =============== Current Firmware Package: 12.12.0-0044 Current Package Details: APP-2.120.43-1223_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.22.00_4.11.05.00_0x05020000_WEBBIOS-6.0-34-e_29-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01700008_BOOT-01.250.04.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0012_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2011_03_17 Previous Firmware Package: 12.12.0-0044 Previous Package Details: APP-2.120.23-1181_BB-2.02.00.00-0000_BIOS-3.21.00_4.11.05.00_0x05000000_WEBBIOS-6.0-34-e_29-Rel_PCLI-04.04-01700008_BOOT-01.250.04.219_NVDATA-2.09.03-0010_SAS2XFW-25.05.04.00_MFGIMG-25.05.04.00_2011_02_12 Bug Fixes and Enhancements: =========================== Firmware: ========= LSIP200158868 (DFCT) Power save mode hangs firmware causing driver to send kill adpter command LSIP200145892 (DFCT) Liberator FW 10M09 cause system (sles11sp1/rhel6) reset while lspci -vvxxx is used LSIP200153318 (DFCT) FW doesn’t detect the iBBU08 if it is remotely mounting with OEM controller BIOS: ======== HII changes only Installation: ============= Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers. MegaCLI can be downloaded from the support and download section of www.lsi.com. Command syntax: MegaCli -adpfwflash -f mrhighpc.rom -a0