LSI 2004 SAS Controller BIOS and Firmware update v1.18.01 for Linux - IBM BladeCenter HS23

System Supported: IBM BladeCenter HS23 (7875, 1929)

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Version: 1.18.01

Severity: Non-Critical

Contains:

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.


Note: See the change history file for more information.

Version 1.15 - Suggested

Contains: BIOS Firmware UEFI Driver | 7.29.01.00 15.00.00.00 7.22.04.00

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.
    

Version 1.10.12 - Suggested

Contains:

Fix:

• Fixed an issue where PFA alerts are not seen in the IMM or CMM

Version 1.10.09 - Suggested

Contains:

• Fixed an issue where BoFM will not function.
• Fixed an issue where external storage will not be seen by the LSI2004 controller.
• Fixed an issue where the user cannot create volumes with HII browser.
• Fixed an issue where the HII browser hangs while navigating forms.

Version 1.10.06 - Initial release

Contains: