ServeRAID M5100 Series SAS/SATA controller firmware update v23.7.0-0029 - IBM System x

Download Description

• New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

Change history

ServeRAID M5100 Series SAS/SATA Controller Firmware Update for Linux

Adapters Supported

• ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4481)
• ServeRAID M5110e SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x
• ServeRAID M5120 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4478)

Severity Suggested

Version 23.7.0-0029

Enhancements

• Added support for Cache Cade 2.1
• Added Support for PI Drives

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the firmware reports device initialization completion status to be greater than 100% at startup.
• Fix an issue where when a secure foreign drive was present, VD creation fails because firmware becomes unresponsive
• Added a check for the presence of PD before writing the data arms of a protected LD during BGI.
• Fixed Firmware asserts in CacheMemAllocForPrebootApps() when memory was allocated twice by BIOS.
• Fixed an issue with USB Cacheoffload restore fails after multiple power cycles on ServeRAID M51xx controllers.
• Fixed an issue where querying SMART / PFA Status returns "all zeros" in Sense Data.
• Fixed an issue where the import of a config from MR to iMR resulted in a firmware crash.
• Fixed an issue where iMR firmware crashed while creating 8/16/32 KB stripe size Lds.
• Fixed background initialization watermark conversion to PD LBA.
• Fixed write protected R1E data arms during initialization.
• Fixed an issue where MR firmware crashed while discarding pinned cache.
• Fixed an issue where a dirty LD dependency information of SSD pd has stale entries.
• Corrected an issue during system booting from pinned cache, firmware goes to loop message BootMsgDcmd
• Fixed an issue where a BGI was aborted and restarted, elapsed time was not reset.
• Fixed an issue where the start ref for a shared cache line was not an indicator of the offset into the stripe.
• Fixed an issue where the firmware hangs while running CC on a rebuilt R1 VD with SBBM.
• Fixed an issue where the firmware was wrongly adding puncture entries.
• Fixed an issue where rebuild was ran twice on a target drive with 100% full SBBM table.
• Fixed an issue where the firmware was generating powersave change event when DS3 was not enabled, due to this application are not parsing the event.
• Fixed an issue where recon from R0 to R1 using 3 TB drive causes firmware to report excessive unexpected sense events.
• Fixed an issue, in which the bbuMode would revert to the factory default value of 5, when automatic learn cycle was enabled.
• Fixed an issue where cache offload firmware reports unnecessary High Temp Event due to incorrect temp value.
• Fixed an issue in which a Patrol Read may not start under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue where the firmware hits montask after discarding the cache when a snapshot VD was involved.
• Fixed an issue where the firmware hangs during pin cache destage as dirty lines in that map never become zero.
• Fixed an issue where CC fails to correct media error at 2TB location on 2 3TB SATA drives that support WU.
• Fixed an issue where a new XML file was added to the nvdata, the buffer to hold the uncompressed nvdata overflowed.
• Fixed an issue where an imported drive becomes unconfigured good when secure VD erase was running.
• Fixed an issue where CC stops progressing on a R6 VD with media errors.
• Fixed an issue where 3TB Hitachi HDD failed in immunity test (Electrostatic Noise test).
• Fixed an issue where controller features are lost if RAID Key was not detected
• Fixed an issue where performance degraded in RAID 5 Sequential Writes due to command Out-of Ordering.
• Fixed an issue where "Native configuration is no longer supported" message in post.
• Fixed an issue where (DDR3) Initialization fails with fault 0x91a1 - initial DFIRL selected too low.
• Fixed an issue where subsequent drives are dropped when all drives in the stagger spin up drives fails on boot sequence.