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Except as expressly permitted by the Software license, no part of the Software may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form, or distributed by any means without the express written consent of Intel Corporation. ========================== Supported RAID Controllers ========================== This download supports Intel(R) RAID controller SROMBSASMR, please verify that this utility has been tested with the RAID card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at http://support.intel.com. =================== Package Information =================== Flash package = 11.0.1-0022 Firmware Version = 1.40.92-0746 ========== Attention! ========== Intel recommends to loading Factory Default setting after the firmware upgrade which will not affect data on any existing array. To do so: 1. Reboot the system and login to the RAID BIOS Console. 2. Select the controller and select 'Adapter Properties'->'Next' 3. Set the 'Set Factory Defaults' setting to 'Yes' and submit the change. 4. Reboot the system (the default settings are applied). 5. Re-configure to the desired settings in RAID Web Console2. ================== Known Restrictions ================== This download does NOT support EFI v1.1 environment. Please use the EFI shell command ¡°ver¡±, which will display the EFI version, to identify the EFI version. ======================= Contents on the package ======================= The following files are included in this zip: Name: Description: SROMBSASMR_Firmware-v1.40.92-0746_readme.txt This file License_v2.pdf License Agreement MR_v746.rom Firmware binary update.bat DOS update batch file update.nsh UEFI update script file CmdTool2\DOS\* DOS update utility and support files CmdTool2\UEFI\* UEFI update utility and support files CmdTool2\Linux\* Linux update utility and support files CmdTool2\Windows\* Windows update utility and support files CmdTool2\Solaris\* Solaris update utility and support files ***Please see Update Utility folders for additional relase note files and licenses.*** ========================== Installation instructions: ========================== DOS instructions for updating RAID Firmware: ----------------- 1. Download and extract all files to a local drive. 2. Boot the target system to DOS. 3. Change directory to the local drive and directory containing the flash update files and the firmware image file. 4. Type "update.bat" or "dos\cmdtool2 -adpfwflash -f MR_v746.rom -aall" 5. Wait for the flash to complete. Do NOT reboot the system during the update. UEFI (EFI 2.0) instructions for updating RAID Firmware: ----------------- 1. Download and extract all files to a local drive. 2. Boot the target system to EFI shell. 3. Change directory to the local drive and directory containing the flash update files and the firmware image file. 4. Type "update.nsh" or "efi\cmdtool2 -adpfwflash -f MR_v746.rom -noverchk -aall" 5. Wait for the flash to complete. Do NOT reboot the system during the update. Windows and Linux instructions for updating RAID Firmware: ----------------- The firmware update may be run from Within Windows or Linux using the appropriate versions of CmdTool2. In Windows, unzip the utility into the same directory as the rom file by typing "cmdtool2 -adpfwflash -f MR_v746.rom -aall". The Linux CmdTool2 by running the rpm and then calling the utility from /opt/MegaRAID/CmdTool2 as "./CmdTool2 -AdpFwFlash -f MR_v746.rom -aall" You can use RAID Web Console 2 to update the RAID firmware. For more detail, please refer to the Intel(r) RAID Software User's Guide. ============= Fixes/Updates ============= v1.40.92-0746 1) Fixed data integrity issue due to write journal hole 2) Always use WriteXor instead of ReadXor for RAID 1 CC/BGI XOR operations 3) Disable reset of Memory Controller to fix PCI ERROR - No IRQ available for System which uses DL_Down instead of or in addition to PCI reset 4) Fixed drive command timeout causes Fatal FW Error by "Driver detected possible F/W hang". 5) Provide support for ENV string to enable / disable dynamic readjusment of PCIE Maximum Read Request Siz v1.40.82-0732 1) Add support to CmdTool2 for program INI setting 2) Add option AdpAutoRbld to CmdTool2 3) Fixed RPM packaging issue while performing CmdTool2 update 4) Remove gas gauge EEPROM update functionality from EF FW 5) Fixed relearn cannot be started 6) Fixed Offline foreign VDs causing resolution & discovery issues 7) Fixed cache data lost issue 8) Remove JBOD support 9) Fixed Predictive failures reported for removed drives 10) Set Memory controller in Self Refresh mode 11) Fixed SSD reset issue v1.40.72-0702 1) Added handle misconpare sense key (0x0e) properly 2) Added Block size during fulll init of SSD to be 2*exp 3) Added Disallow creation of GHS with smaller size PD 4) Fixed JBOD LED issue 5) Added Provide programmability to variable SGPIOType 6) Added sorted write port 7) Fixed Slection of any PD fails if GHS is created out of smaller PD. 8) Fixed VD Initilization done with a wrong block size affects SSD performance 9) Fixed SGPIO Group IDs Intermittently Incorrect 10) Fixed HWR FW run into data mis-compare with infinite loop when HDD responds Sense 0x0E-1D-00 for Medium Error Recovery. 11) Fixed 1078 SGPIO Active signal issue 12) Fixed Red LED is lit on the next empty slot in an AIC/Xtor JBOD if the empy slot is immediatly after an array member 13) Fixed Product name gets truncated when its length is >25 14) Fixed SAS2.0 HWR controller returned string(OPROM PnP header) does not return the controller name 15) Fixed Replace System Drive with JBOD to be consistent in referring passthru HDD across MR utilities 16) Fixed Injecting media error on VD which has the OS and reboot, controller doesn't boot to other vd which has the OS 17) Fixed can not install Sles 11 64 bit on some systems with skinny controller in the system. 18) Fixed FW hang while you try to create file system on 5 drive R5 on SLES 11 64 Bit system 19) Fixed Allocate mem only if hostMemRequired is set 20) Added function header and comment 21) Fixed System hang is seen if BIOS fails to bring up FW 22) Fixed In specific systems can not boot to OS on the VD or on the secondary controller with FW pkg 20.1.1-0016 23) Fixed FW returned string(OPROM PnP header) does not return the controller name 24) Fixed ".s" shows stack growing after each CLI command execution 25) Fixed System Kernel panics or reboots if you pull out a drive form R1 VD. 26) Fixed System hang is seen when user by-pass BIOS 27) Removed Ctrl+E which is used to skip OpROM Execution v1.40.62-0665 1) Fixed FW does not check the additional lenght value on Mode Sense Cmd 2) Fixed RCD (Read Cache Disabled) is reversed 3) Fixed remove delay after FW download to non-disk devices 4) Fixed FW not flushing disk cache 5) Added use additional length from mode sense Page 0x19 v1.40.52-0629 1) Added Drive dead option after Predictive failure 2) Fixed SoH Bad event logged although the battery is good 3) Fixed reset SAS1078 ROC with out resetting GPIO block 4) Fixed RAID FW halt in ISR for handling DL up to DL down 5) Fixed Enclosure 1 phy bad for slot -1 error messages appear on every boot 6) Fixed Long IO problem which happens after the first boot and take about several sec between IOs with SSD Drives 7) Fixed RAID tool hange under UEFI v1.40.42-0615 1) Fixed data miscompared issue while copyback with medium errors under I/O 2) Fixed missing event issue when changing the CC schedule mode after successful operation 3) Fixed BBU not detected issue when the battery cell pack replaced 4) Set DelayPOST to 60 Seconds 5) Fixed adapter provides wrong features while creating arrays 6) Fixed auto config using wrong features during array creation 7) Fixed FW breaks into "Assertion failure in ../../raid/ldbbm.c at line 1521: c->bbmHead == -1" while rebuilding with medium errors 8) Fixed RBC failed to update if the driver is HDD or SDD 9) Fixed FW issued wrong mode select command 10) Fixed FW fault with consistency check and medium errors 11) Fixed FW breaks into "MonTask: line 3115 in file ../../raid/cache.c" while rebuilding with medium errors 12) Fixed FW fails to import the RAID5 configuration 13) Fixed configuration not found when cold boot. 14) Fixed check consistency doesn't regenerate parity after hitting double media error 15) Fixed data integrity issue with multi row write on media error block 16) Fixed inconsistency error during CC after bad block recovery where the data and P parity are bad on R6 17) Added support for Group_ID and Drive Presence in the SGPIO to map the slot numbers 18) Modified FW PHY Settings for SROMBSASMR 19) Added Clear NVRAM support 20) Added mark drive dead option after Predictive failure 21) Added RWCII comments for cache setting during array creation 22) Changed default setting to disable HDD write cache 23) Fixed RBC Hang when application exits using mouse. 24) Fixed No R1 prompt on Array with Free Space during config a RAID 25) Fixed FW fails return status of variable BBUGood v1.40.32-0580 1) Added SMARTer support for SSD 2) Fixed Raid 5 is displayed twice on the 'virtual drive definition' page. 3) Fixed Decimal places of the VD size are not shown when the arrow keys are used to change the size in the 'virtual drive definition' 4) Fixed DG Definition screen displays the unit GB twice for PD size. 5) Fixed RAID BIOS Console Configuration Wizard finished with the Error message "Unacceptable size" (proposed size too big) 6) Fixed RAID BIOS Console displays wrong VD size and allows to create VDs of wrong size 7) Fixed RAID BIOS Console accepts VD size that are more than the max VD size that is displayed on 'virtual drive definition' page for RAID 6 8) Fixed ATA-Passthrough using SAT layer issue with write sector pass through command 9) Fixed Patrol Read next start time when system down is incorrect 10) Fixed LTO media re-loaded(inserted) automatically issue. 11) Fixed firmware Write Verify retry patch to fix DDF Sense Errors at 1-sec drive-timeout 12) Fixed system hang issue while running IO & CC 13) Fixed Fault LED for HDD Slot #0 on SES enclosure has been turned ON unexpectedly 14) Fixed Firmware marks the drive dead even there are errors in SAS/SATA RAID 5/6 configuration. RAID0/1/10 are OK. 15) Fixed Make Data Consistent scheduler is set to weekly issue. 16) Fixed no Fault LED turned on when a configured drive was removed v1.40.22-0570 1) Provided the complete Sense data log file 2) Added CTO Enable / Disable In MegaRAID Utilites 3) Implemented SMARTCopyBack independent with CopyBack 4) Fixed cache data discard issue 5) Fixed Long IO problem which happens after the first boot and take about 1.8-2 sec between IOs 6) Fixed Current write cache policy becomes WB even battery has not yet completed the initial learn cycle. 7) Fixed Boot messages are not cleared with EFI driver 8) Fixed FW sending unknown command to HDD when NCQ Enabled which causes FW hang or drive not detected. 9) Fixed Data integrity issue happens when do the AC power-off after the data(file) write during the rebuild with BBU installed. 10) Fixed PD status are changed from online to missing 11) Fixed Data integrity issue occurred when reconstruction found uncorrectable media error. 12) Fixed VPD page 89h data incorrect issue 13) Fixed Data Integrity issue with medium errors on R5 while running remove/insert till rebuild complete 14) Fixed FW does not respond in case of detecting Recovery Write Error caused by source medium error during rebuild on RAID6. v1.40.12-0551 - Initial release *Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.