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Here is the list of changes in MR5.7:
Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
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FIRMWARE:
**NOTE: Full native 4K sector Firmware support is deferred to MegaRAID Release 5.8 targeted for September 2013.
SCGCQ00414056 - (Closed) - Potential IO integrity with R0/R1 CIO WT when overlapping R/W issued to LD.
SCGCQ00413472 - (Closed) - Unable to perform Consistency Check and other background operations in a legacy WebBIOS
SCGCQ00413254 - (Closed) - Multiple VDs undergoing full init show a calculated estimated time remaining even though they sit at 0%
SCGCQ00406688 - (Closed) - 'Static Code Analysis Tool' warnings: IDs - 10007 , 10338 , 10340, 10356, 10364 , 10371, 10389, 10390, 10847, 10848
SCGCQ00406301 - (Closed) - 'Static Code Analysis Tool' warnings 10071, 10100, 10162, 10174, 10288, 10332, 10361, 10363, 10503
SCGCQ00406219 - (Closed) - FW reports "Progress init not proper" during 16 VD Rebuild
SCGCQ00400564 - (Closed) - Delete VD while PR still in progress cause debugger to loop. Reboot the system, debugger still loops
SCGCQ00393749 - (Closed) - MonTask: line 281 in file ../../raid/mem.c if running megacli AdpDiag
SCGCQ00393117 - (Closed) - Firmware crash during CME recovery
SCGCQ00392421 - (Closed) - 5.7‘Static Code Analysis Tool’ changes
SCGCQ00385372 - (Closed) - 'Static Code Analysis Tool' Defect OVERRUN STATIC: CIDs Out-of-bounds access
SCGCQ00369611 - (Closed) - Code Analysis Tool fix
SCGCQ00349837 - (Closed) - Sequential Read performance is less on CacheCade associated LD's.
SCGCQ00424928 - (Closed) - Application could not make a JBOD bootable without a VD present
SCGCQ00412766 - (Closed) - In HII, when user has a critical message and the conrtoller is in Safe Mode, going into CTRL Management will result an error msg
SCGCQ00404301 - (Closed) - Significant drop in Sequenial read performance with Read Ahead policy
SCGCQ00404263 - (Closed) - Staggered CMEs across R10 array are causing a read error
SCGCQ00384874 - (Closed) - MR5.6 Beta Firmware BST: Code Analysis Tool Fix
SCGCQ00378971 - (Closed) - Continues PR 2nd time on Raid 1 and then delete VD and reboot system cause debugger to continues loop and want to run PR
SCGCQ00378358 - (Closed) - 5.7 FW PKG 23.11.0-0013/Using CLI, can change a cachecade PD to WB even though enableSSCWB=0
SCGCQ00422757 - (Closed) - Firmware does not progress background operations with certain systems when using WebBIOS in legacy mode
SCGCQ00406148 - (Closed) - Grammatical spacing error in bios message at POST
SCGCQ00400555 - (Closed) - The elapsed time shown in the FW debugger for a reconstruction not starting at 0
SCGCQ00398281 - (Closed) - "Question value mismatch with Option Value" message in HII's Controller Management when in Safe Mode with pin cache
SCGCQ00394067 - (Closed) - Removed unwanted prints. For copyBack, total Blocks for copyback was not getting intitailized for right drive. Initialized for copyBack destination PD. Added necessary fix.
SCGCQ00383251 - (Closed) - Code Analysis Tool Defect OVERRUN STATIC: CIDs Out-of-bounds access
SCGCQ00381562 - (Closed) - Assertion failure fixed for issuing "adpdiag" from megacli-dos
SCGCQ00378408 - (Closed) - Correct formatting and compilation issues
SCGCQ00400149 - (Closed) - Firmware failed to import drives to start rebuild after remove then reinsert
SCGCQ00394259 - (Closed) - Fixes for defects found by Static Code Analysis Tool
SCGCQ00393347 - (Closed) - 'Static Code Analysis Tool' code changes
SCGCQ00383337 - (Closed) - Firmware is sending totalElapsedSecs value as 0 for LD and PD progresses
SCGCQ00380450 - (Closed) - MegaCli pdFwDownload fails on a SATA drive with an interposer (parent defect is SCGCQ00352210)
SCGCQ00378916 - (Closed) - Timed critical boot message under UEFI mode not showing
SCGCQ00375763 - (Closed) - Fix for Firmware asserted when VDs are offline
SCGCQ00375418 - (Closed) - Code Analysis Tool Fix
SCGCQ00393765 - (Closed) - Code Analysis Tool Fix
SCGCQ00391493 - (Closed) - Firmware blocked firmware download to interposer
SCGCQ00372058 - (Closed) - NCQ support is disabled in FW
SCGCQ00334864 - (Closed) - Double media error getting corrected during check consistency
SCGCQ00406233 - (Closed) - Data Miscompare found while running I/O overnight with degraded virtual drives
EnhancementRequests (12)
**NOTE: Full native 4K sector Firmware support is deferred to MegaRAID Release 5.8 targeted for September 2013.
SCGCQ00323433 - (Closed) - 4K sector support - Cache Mgmt, Snapshot, LD config, RAID **
SCGCQ00369610 - (Closed) - CME handling improvements for handling multi-row I/Os
SCGCQ00369835 - (Closed) - 4K sector support - Switch to enable/disable 4K feature, Restrict "Snapshot" to 512-sector drives **
SCGCQ00392264 - (Closed) - Firmware returns invalid data in OOB packet
SCGCQ00369206 - (Closed) - ECC memory error boot message and event log enhancement.
SCGCQ00369208 - (Closed) - Rebuild time reset
SCGCQ00392280 - (Closed) - Provide Fastpath as a standard offering for TB based controllers
SCGCQ00364773 - (Closed) - Ability to power off and on individual HDD
SCGCQ00369741 - (Closed) - Port latency outlier fixes to FW (from legacy PR137246)
SCGCQ00323427 - (Closed) - 4K sector support - DDF, DM, Host Interface **
SCGCQ00369832 - (Closed) - 4K sector support - iMR, analyze all remaining hard-coded instances of "512" **
SCGCQ00369228 - (Rejected) - RRB 45 - CLI Reporting of TMM VPD
CSETActivities (52)
SCGCQ00354181 - (Port_Complete) - DDF rev is not updated properly when both 4K and 512 drives are present **
SCGCQ00372172 - (Port_Complete) - MR2208 JBOD function can't handle the UNC error of SATA disk
SCGCQ00381798 - (Port_Complete) - MR Controller Rejects Vendor Unique SCSI Command
SCGCQ00395186 - (Port_Complete) - Double media error getting corrected during check consistency
SCGCQ00396296 - (Port_Complete) - Ctrl+R- Ctrl+R BIOS hangs while hot plug of 2 enclosures with more than 32 drives
SCGCQ00397246 - (Port_Complete) - [MR5.4] CacheCade: ECC/Medium/Unrecoverable read errors handling Enhancement
SCGCQ00397338 - (Port_Complete) - CC2.1_RA_Support : Data Integrity issue may happen upon creating WB CCVD during Cache Flush
SCGCQ00397347 - (Port_Complete) - Sequential Read performance is less on CacheCade associated LD's.
SCGCQ00414020 - (Port_Complete) - Adjusted the USB phy boost value for the OEM controllers with SubDevice IDs between 3510 and 3515.
SCGCQ00414463 - (Port_Complete) - IO integrity error seen after Source VD associated with CacheCade VD is forcibly unblocked
SCGCQ00414466 - (Port_Complete) - During rebuild on PRL11 CacheCade VD and rebuild on RAID6 Source VD IO integrity error is seen.
SCGCQ00417742 - (Port_Complete) - BBU Charging gets disabled when Transparent Relearn fails to start due to low capacity
SCGCQ00373301 - (Port_Complete) - SCSI Pass-Through to SAS SSD returns data but disk reported medium error
SCGCQ00374850 - (Port_Complete) - Foreign config import failed from MR to iMR on Solaris 11x86
SCGCQ00384609 - (Port_Complete) - Assertion failure in ../../raid/raidpci.c at line 10011 , while running IO with medium errors on arrays.
SCGCQ00385362 - (Port_Complete) - reading SATA IDENT information using STP_Passthru doesn't work with latest FW
SCGCQ00389234 - (Port_Complete) - Continues PR 2nd time on Raid 1 and then delete VD and reboot system cause debugger to continues loop and want to run PR
SCGCQ00395380 - (Port_Complete) - Disk missing sporadically during reboot of OEM
SCGCQ00405889 - (Port_Complete) - Auto Foreign import fails when controller is booted with pinned cache.
SCGCQ00406635 - (Port_Complete) - Power loop cycle test on a non DIF drive connected to LSI controller caused fatal firmware error
SCGCQ00411291 - (Port_Complete) - Significant drop in Sequenial read performance with Read Ahead policy
SCGCQ00414469 - (Port_Complete) - When a Cachecade PD marked as missing is reused to make Cachecade VD IO integrity error is observed.
SCGCQ00418110 - (Active) - If the hotspare was spun down, the copyback after a drive failure wouldn't always start.
SCGCQ00381325 - (Port_Complete) - Wrong event generated "Reminder: Potential non-optimal configuration due to drive PD xx(e0xfc/sx) commissioned..
SCGCQ00383643 - (Port_Complete) - "Assertion failure in ../../raid/mem.c at line 281" on issuing "adpdiag" from megacli-dos
SCGCQ00392859 - (Port_Complete) - TFM modules with dirty data can cause the controller to hang during boot when transported to another controller
SCGCQ00409501 - (Port_Complete) - The reliability and error recovery of the SuperCap firmware was improved.
SCGCQ00418100 - (Port_Complete) - If a correctable ECC error occurred during a cache offload, the CPU would crash, resulting in a data loss
SCGCQ00360907 - (Port_Complete) - VD becomes WT with a good & new Super Cap on boot
SCGCQ00381814 - (Port_Complete) - (multiple) Megacli64 error in deadlock state
SCGCQ00386772 - (Port_Complete) - Timed critical boot message under UEFI mode not showing
SCGCQ00392416 - (Port_Not_Required) - Firmware blocked firmware download to interposer
SCGCQ00393320 - (Port_Complete) - NCQ support is disabled in FW
SCGCQ00397337 - (Port_Complete) - Data Integrity issue may happen upon creating WB CCVD during Cache Flush
SCGCQ00412657 - (Port_Complete) - Adjusted the USB phy boost value for the OEM controllers with SubDevice IDs between 3510 and 3515.
SCGCQ00374855 - (Port_Complete) - GHS drives changed to unconfigured good after OCR / System reboot scenario's
SCGCQ00378050 - (Port_Complete) - BMC see clock stetching on I2C bus
SCGCQ00380935 - (Port_Complete) - BMC see clock stetching on I2C bus
SCGCQ00381794 - (Port_Complete) - MR Controller Rejects Vendor Unique SCSI Command
SCGCQ00391703 - (Port_Complete) - Copyback was successful when the block sizes did not match
SCGCQ00397250 - (Port_Complete) - [MR5.4] CacheCade: ECC/Medium/Unrecoverable read errors handling Enhancement
SCGCQ00405886 - (Port_Complete) - FW halts when you have pinned cache and remove VD form the configuration.
SCGCQ00374852 - (Port_Complete) - Defect fix for 4 K drives Foreign configuration import.
SCGCQ00409495 - (Port_Complete) - The reliability and error recovery of the SuperCap firmware was improved.
SCGCQ00412679 - (Port_Complete) - Timeout when creating a hotspare
SCGCQ00385361 - (Port_Complete) - reading SATA IDENT information using STP_Passthru doesn't work with latest FW
SCGCQ00395381 - (Port_Complete) - Disk missing sporadically during reboot of OEM
SCGCQ00354097 - (Port_Complete) - MR: VD created in IR controller comes as UG when connected.
SCGCQ00380285 - (Port_Complete) - Defect fix for 4K configuration record updation is not happening with 4k drives **
SCGCQ00381728 - (Port_Complete) - Firmware asserted at raid/cache.c at line 3661 when VDs are offline
SCGCQ00381812 - (Port_Complete) - (multiple) Megacli64 error in deadlock state
**NOTE: Full native 4K sector Firmware support is deferred to MegaRAID Release 5.8 targeted for September 2013.
WebBIOS:
SCGCQ00380528 - (Closed) - In EFI WebBIOS with CC running on a R1 when 1 PD is removed EFI WebBIOS still shows that CC is in progress
SCGCQ00400124 - (Closed) - Controller breaks into Megamon when clicking on the enclosure link in WebBIOS
NVDATA:
SCGCQ00333522 - (Closed) - Degraded performance comparison With the latest MR 5.3 -MR_3.190.25.1887
Hii:
SCGCQ00420373 - (Closed) - HII doesn not allow user to use the remain free capacity to configure additional VD for R50/R10.
SCGCQ00422774 - (Port_Complete) - MR 6.1 HII: empty warning prompt is given when creating a CacheCade VD with forced writeback option