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Adaptec RAID Release dated: August 4, 2014===========================================
These release notes contain the following:
1. Description of the Release
2. Supported Controllers
3. Enhancements and Bugfixes
1. Description of the Release:===============================
This is the official software release containing the list of software
components listed below:- Firmware Version 7.5.0 Build 32033- Windows Driver (32-bit and 64-bit) Version 7.5.0.32028- Linux Driver Version 1.2.1-40700- VMware Driver Version 1.2.1.-40700- maxView Storage Manager (MSM) Version 1.06 Build 21062
2. Supported Controllers:=========================- Adaptec RAID 7805
- Adaptec RAID 7805Q- Adaptec RAID 78165- Adaptec RAID 71605E- Adaptec RAID 71605- Adaptec RAID 71605Q- Adaptec RAID 71685- Adaptec RAID 72405- Adaptec RAID 8405
- Adaptec RAID 8805
- Adaptec RAID 8885
- Adaptec RAID 8885Q- Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
3. Enhancements and Bug Fixes:==============================General:- New product release of the Adaptec RAID 8405 controller- Added support for up to 128 Simple Volumes- Re-enabled 16/32K Stripe size support- Enhanced Error Analysis & Recovery- Added support for global device write cache setting force off
Firmware:- Resolved an issue where a drive assigned as a hot spare would continue to be report as a hot spare after
being pulled into a RAID array- Resolved an IO Error issue seen on Simple Volumes created using 4k drives during heavy I/O- Enhanced error handling of drives with medium errors- Resolved an issue where hot removing drives from a multi-level array (i.e. RAID 60) would incorrectly
force another configured RAID array on the same controller to go offline- Resolved an issue where performance was low when NUMA was enabled- Resolved an issue where incorrect status was being reported of individual legs during a rebuild of amulti-level RAID array- Resolved an issue where a rebuild would not occur if a drive failure occurred before a RAID levelmigration completed- Resolved an issue where system performance slow down could occur after sustaining a drive failure with aRAID 1E array- Resolved an issue where all pHY's on a controller were not being displayed in management utilities- Resolved an issue where Identify and Fault LED blinking was incorrect on Series 8ZQ- Resolved issues where cache settings were not being properly applied or maintained- Enhanced medium error handling during RAID rebuilding- Resolved an issue where drives were not always detected when hot-plugged- Resolved an issue where the controller would stop responding after starting a RAID level migration- Added events in Windows system event log for an unsafe shutdown where controller cache data was lost
- Resolved an issue where RAID rebuild would not occur after hot remove and add of the same drive occurred
Driver:- All Operating Systems:- Support for new Adaptec RAID 8405
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- Added support for up to 128 Simple Volumes- Windows changes:- Added events to the system event log for AFM and logical drive add/delete- Resolved an issue where the controller cache mode would incorrectly be set to Disabled without userinteraction- Resolved an issue where events were not being generated in the Windows event log under Windows 8- Resolved an issue where deleting an logical drive higher than 64 would not remove it from DiskManagement- Linux/VMware changes:- Added support for RHEL 5.10
-FreeBSD changes:- Resolved an issue where the enclosure expander firmware could not be upgraded using the ARCCONF
EXPANDERUPGRADE command in FreeBSD-maxCache Plus changes:- Added support for some asynchronous hot data movement between tiered volumes- Resolved an issue where hot data was no longer being identified and moved resulting in no performancegain- Resolved an issue where a simple volume cache pool did not come back online if recovered from a failure- Resolved an issue where Fetch and Flush mode settings were not being correctly set during Volume
creation- Resolved an issue where the PMCSPolicyServive service would terminate unexpectedly
maxView/ARCCONF:- Added support for up to 128 Simple Volumes- Added support for AutoVolume mode
- Added global physical device cache settings- Added settings available in CTRL-A to ARCCONF- Added maxView support for Citrix XenServer 6.2- Enhanced Phy error log- Corrected an issue where maxView would incorrectly report fan speed in an enclosure when fan speed wasover 10,000 RPM- Resolved an issue where maxView was forcing applications (such as SSH, PHP, etc...) in Linux to use it's
version of libCrypto library, causing a version mismatch and preventing them from running- Resolved an issue where the arcconf.log was growing in size and filling the system's partition underLinux- Resolved an issue preventing a RAID level migration using maxView- Resolved an issue where maxView would not display a connected tape device- Corrected an issue where the Restore Configuration feature in maxView would not properly restore thesaved configuration- Resolved an issue when installing maxView in Solaris configuring a non-default CIMServer port would
cause a login failure- Resolved an issue where attempting to create multiple RAID arrays in maxView would fail- Resolved an issue where changes made in Set Controller Properties in maxView were not being applied- Resolved an issue where maxView login would fail under SLES 10 SP4- Removed a limitation preventing maxView from displaying more than 64 logical devices- Resolved an issue where the logical drive members were not being displayed for a logical drive inmaxView during a RAID reconfiguration (migration)- Resolved an issue where Express Configuration RAID creation would fail if configured RAW devices werepresent on the controller- Resolved an issue where Customer Mode installation would fail for maxView 32-bit- Resolved an issue where events were not generated in maxView when power management was disabled for aphysical device- Resolved truncated text in maxView when using Chrome or Opera browsers- Resolved an issue where ARCCONF getstatus was not displaying secure erase activity- Resolved an issue that would prevent the ability to stop tasks in maxView under Windows SBS 2011
- Resolved an issue where the task percentage was not updating for maxCache flush and coherency checkprocesses in maxView- Added Alarm status to ARCCONF GETCONFIG- Added separate MAXCONF executables, no longer requiring maxView GUI to be installed in order to use- Resolved an issue where a RAID array comprised of 4k physical drives could not be expanded or migrated
in maxView- Resolved an issue where the controller would disappear form the Enterprise tree in maxView during heavy
I/O- Resolved an issue where a logical drive that has completed an Online Capacity Expansion was not able tobe deleted in maxView- Resolved an issue where the wrong controller name was being displayed in maxView for a remotely managedsystem-------------------------------------------------------------------(c) 2013 PMC-Sierra, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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