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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 Storage Systems ========================== This download supports Intel(R) Storage Server SSR212MC2BR and SSR212MC2RBR =================== Package Information =================== version = 1.0.5-72 Note: The "Enclosure Firmware Revision" is shown in StorView* Enclosure Management software as xxyy, for example 4160. 41 is the enclosure management board hardware version. 60 (revision 1.0.4-60) is the enclosure management firmware revision. OS supported = Windows* Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003-R2, Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003-R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES/WS 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, SuSE Enterprise 10 This package can be installed on all x86 systems. ========= Attention ========= Added/Changed in this release: N/A ================== Known Restrictions ================== Requires Java* Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher and a web browser. SSR212MC2R Requires Intel(R) RAID controller SRCSAS144E firmware version 1.03.00-0310 ======================= Contents of the package ======================= SSR212MC2-1.0.5-72.fuf Firmware binary for upgrading enclosure management system ~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!!!!!! IMPORTANT DATA LOSS WARNING: !!!!!!!! Failure to follow these instructions can cause data loss. Please read carefully. Before upgrading any firmware you must stop all data flow through the operating system. Please note that stopping data flow also means checking that there are no RAID background tasks in addition to stopping host raid data access. Check that there are no parity checks, consistency checks, background initializations, rebuilds or any other background tasks being run or being scheduled to run. If you have recently created a RAID volume allow at least 48 hours to pass before upgrading firmware even if you have selected not to initialize the volumes as background initialization can still occur. Use the 'Show Progress' menu for the controller if you are using the Intel RAID Web Console GUI to see what tasks are running. Always allow 15 minutes for any pending updates to start first. During download you may see error messages from the RAID controller. If you have stopped all data flow these can safely be ignored including if the drives or volumes are marked offline or bad. After download you must reboot your OS. This reboot must be a total power off cold start - shutdown then remove all the power cords from the back of the unit for at least 25 seconds. Your system will recover itself at power-on startup of the operating system. Before upgrade of the EM firmware you must make sure your RAID card firmware is at the recommended level (see Known Restrictions). Always back up your data and configuration before upgrading any firmware. Upgrading firmware with an external storage expansion unit attached to the RAID card is not supported. Properly shutdown and remove all external storage expansion units before upgrade. Failure to adhere to these rules can result in irrecoverable data loss or RAID configuration loss. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================= Installation Instructions ========================= Install the *.fuf file using StorView* enclosure management software. Install the *.fuf file using StorView* enclosure management software 1. Download and extract the *.fuf file 2. Open StorView on the attached client 3. Right click on the Controller object within StorView Graphical View and select "Download ESI Firmware" 4. Browse to the *.fuf file on the attached client 5. Click OK to update the firmware. Any subsequent actions will be prevented until the procedure is complete. 6. After updating the firmware you must reboot the controller. StorView is developed for 32 bit environment and works on 64 bit OS in emulation mode. For complete usage and installation steps please refer to the product's Software User Guide. =========================================== Summary of Installation Steps for StorView Application: =========================================== 1. Download the StorView self extracting installer 2. Run the installer and select all default options 3. A shortcut will be set up under the Start button -> All Programs =========================================== StorView Application Uninstall Instructions =========================================== StorView can be uninstalled using Add/Remove Programs opton in Control Panel. ======================== Known Issues/Limitations ======================== 1) When using multiple ethernet connections, Storview connects via only one of these. If you disconnect the main cable you must then restart storview on the enclosure having first shut down the 2 storview services. If this port is disabled (through the system OS) or disconnected, Storview will not be able to start. The error message “Could not connect to service on 127.0.0.1, please ensure that the service is running and try it again" will be displayed. Note: if you disable the port through Storview, then Storview will be closed. 2) SSR212MC2R only - RAID card firmware can occasionally override user settings for drive LEDs. If you use storview to turn drive ident lights on and remove/replace a drive, RAID card can override your ident lights and may turn them off. 3) SSR212MC2R only - RAID card firmware can add warnings to the windows/linux event logs about temperature differentials. These messages are erroneous and can be ignored safely. 4) Removing one fan causes all fans to go to 100%. This is a design requirement for failure cases and is correct behaviour. 5) Enclosure firmware upgrade is not supported if an external storage expansion unit is connected to the Intel SRCSAS1444e RAID card and is actively in use. 6) Inserting a second (redundant) PSU with no live AC attached has the PSU reported as OK rather than AC Power fault. 7) Direct access to enclosure information via other methods such as IPMI is not supported and may cause system failure. Only SES is supported. Other management interfaces than SES are not supported (such as IPMI) and may cause unwanted side effects or faults =============================== Fixes/Updates - In This Release =============================== 1) On a broken PSu (orange flash) every few minutes SES suddenly shows a general psu fault and clears it on the next read 2) SES page 2 array(17h) element. SES request fault is not reflected in status page 3) Need external temp to have low warning levels set to -19 4) Suppress command failed to stop the fault LED/alarm beep on Physical enclosure during Failure/unrecoverable state 5) 8F page PSIPDBstatus(3Bh),PSIPSUTopStatus(3Ch) and PSIPSUBotStatus have issues corrections needed 6) Hot swap bit set is not proper during 2nd attempt of PSU removal 7) Add reboot control flag to VU AAh 8) Need to fully support Page 0x02 Short Status Byte in SES page header - currently it is reserved (0) 9) Make ops -3 temp offset optional via eeprom setting 10) Need to allow sas expander reset via sas expander element in page 0x02 control page (send element as all Fs (0xFFFFFFFF)) 11) Need a new vendor unique bit to complete suppress alarms and LEDs 12) Need xxxxx product id 13) XXXX PID needs to be 8012 not 6012 now 14) CPU management system uses 1 degree C as an error indicator but this could be a real value - indicator needs to be 31C 15) If any drives are missing overall status shoulf show MISSING for drives (notinstalled) in page 2 16) When both PSUs are marked as missing, overall status shows OK (corrected to unknown) 17) Alarm values on internal temp sensor for cold range are too low - need update to thermal table ====================== Previous Fixes/Updates ====================== 1) Improve memory space and increase log space by at least one entry 2) At SOD DImm list can be slow to populate so needs stand off 3) DIMM throttle value needs to be set every BMC iteration in FW to raise throttling level at BMC 4) Need to be able to report OLTT/CTTT and BMC ver via SES p7 (elec element 2) 5) New weighted flans are slower to spin up causing temporary faults to be reported 6) Need support of SWAP BIT for fans, PSUs and drives - same for SV 7) Need support of Array element Rebuild/remap to enable slow flashing drive LED - user SES set/clear for RAID systems - same for SV 8) Need change to T10 element to allow for performance/acoustic mode to be set - same for SV 9) Need broader CPU/DIMm fan table to allow for hysteresis and better quicker cooling 10) Need better fan polling algorithm to speed up CPU/DIMM polling 11) Changed SES gen code to only increment in certain circumstances - i.e. virtually never 12) For first 30 seconds it is possible to get a cpu temp of 1 and fans to go high 13) Bring SES up to rev 18 of T10 spec 14) setting select bit of some overall-ses-elements sets the actual element when it should be ignored 15) When a psu is removed the enabFail bit is set on. It should not be set on 16) To support 45nm chips thermal warning (lower/cold) levels need lowering by 40-50 degrees 17) Iook for E0 and A0 on duff CPU pair temp reports 18) Enabled BIOS CLTT detect and warn 19) Quad core temp support does not report consolidated temps corectly 20) Need to revert throtlo to 92 following thermal research 21)DC under voltage bit got set when there is no AC input to the PSU. 22)Both T10 Compliance and overall elements common status shown as unsupported (00h) 23)Overall Temperature element status is not reflecting with box temperature alarm conditions. 24)DIMM Throttle cieling needs to be a floor to - ie fixed number due to BMC bugs 25)The overall array status is not reflecting with the worst drive status. 26)When 0 drives plugged in CLI reports unhappy with WWN list continually incorrectly 27)Ver command should report VSC chip and CPU version 28)Overall PSU common status bit set as unsupported (00h) 29)DC under voltage bit got set when there is no AC input to the PSU. 30)OFF bit is not set when a Fan is missing. 31)OFF bit is not set when there is no AC input to PSU 32)By default VPD Intel is not T10 compliance as specified in spec. 33)Need to add T10 detector element as vendor unique eleent 34)Overall Temperature element status is not reflecting with box temperature alarm conditions. 35)DIMM throttle cieling needs removing for BMC >= 62 36)DIMM CLTT throttle incorrectly reported by motherboard. Needs optional upper limit. 37)A Failure/Unrecoverable status is reported when the AC cord is pulled from a power supply. A Critical status is now reported instead. 38)Alarm is not set when the DIMM/CPU0/CPU1 temps change to the lower end of threshold. 39)StorView displays incorerctly for Power Supplies when one is removed. 40)Fujitsu* SAS drive does not show drive information in Storview. The Fujitsu SAS drive (MAX3147RC 147 GB) does not display drive information (serial number, firmware level, vendor name, etc) other than a WWN in Storview. 41)SSR212MC2 system (no RAID card) only - Hard Drive Status shows wrong information in Storview under System Settings. Wrong information includes Product ID and Vendor information. 42)Storview does not load if the “main?network port is disabled or disconnected. 43)Power Supply serial number is displayed incorrectly in StorView. 44)A disk drive which is "hot swapped" without properly preparing the disk for removal using Intel(R) RAID WebConsole 2 and replaced, will not show updated drive information in StorView. This can be corrected by refeshing or restarting StorView. *Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.