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Adaptec RAID Release dated: June 12, 2015===========================================
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 7.8.0 Build 32722- Windows Driver (32-bit and 64-bit) Version 7.5.0.41013- Linux Driver Version 1.2.1-41018- VMware Driver Version 1.2.1.-41021- maxView Storage Manager (MSM) Version 1.08 Build 21375
2. Supported Controllers:=========================- Adaptec RAID 8405
- Adaptec RAID 8805
- Adaptec RAID 8885
- Adaptec RAID 8885Q- Adaptec RAID 81605Z- Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
3. Enhancements and Bug Fixes:==============================General:- Support for Adaptec ASR-81605Z SAS RAID Controller- Adaptec Series 6, 7, 8 SAS RAID Controllers refresh, including:- Support for new operating systems- Updated Linux drivers with improved performance and 'linux dd' support for RHEL and CentOS- Enhanced flash backup unit error reporting- Improved throughput for RAID 1 sequential reads when read cache is disabled and write cache is enabled- History buffer enhancements (call stack/SCSI command descriptor block/debug information in log entries)- Die temperature warning limit raised on Adaptec Series 7 and Series 8 controllers from 95 deg C to 102 deg C;
resume limit raised from 90 deg C to 97 deg C (ie, after reaching 97C degrees, the buzzer turns off)
Firmware:- Resolved an issue that prevented the rebuild of a degraded RAID 6.
- Added support for resetting the AFM module if only the super cap is replaced.
- Resolved an issue where the backplane mode would change after a controller firmware upgrade.
- Resolved an issue there the Super Cap (BLBU) status was incorrectly displaying as Preparing instead of Ready.
- Resolved an issue where the drive Fault LED behavior for a degraded array was incorrect.
- Resolved an issue where a RAID 6 would not begin a rebuild if one or more members were removed and quickly reinserted.
- Resolved an issue where controller could lock up, in rare cases, after a dirty shutdown during IO processing.
- Resolved an issue that could cause the firmware to lock up during boot in situations with online and offline
containers with different stripe sizes.
- Corrected a background task balancing issue when 4k native drives are attached to the controller.
- Rebuilding a RAID 1 consisting of 512k sector size drives with a 4k native sector size drive is no longer
possible.
- Resolved an issue where a removed and rapidly re-inserted drive might not get activated properly.
- Resolved an issue that could cause a rebuild to not start properly if a drive failure occurred during a rescan.
- Resolved an issue where an array could not be rebuilt after multiple subsequent drive failures and offline
state.
- Resolved an issue where an erroneous super cap health warning error was frequently reported in the controller
log.
- Added RAID 1 sequential read performance optimization for low IO depths.
- Resolved an issue where RAID 5 to RAID 6 migration failure would occur in cases where the drive size exceeded2TB.
- Resolved an issue where the RAID controller can hang when used with multiple cascaded drive enclosures.
- Resolved incorrect drive enclosure LED behavior.
- Resolved a drive detection issue in case of a delayed power on for certain enclosure types.
- The default IO depth for SATA SSDs has been increased from 20 to 32.
- Resolved an issue where preserved cache was not cleared after deleting the logical drive.
- Resolved an issue where the controller could fail during a lengthy sequence of repeated drive failure and hot
drive removal/addition.
- Corrected a power off status issue with power management in maxView storage manager utility.
- Corrected an issue affecting the proper behavior of the copyback functionality.
- Resolved an issue where the controller could fail when used with Chenbro enclosures configured for dual path.
- Resolved an issue where drives would drop when powering on Intel JBOD2224S2DP (Dual-Path) and system at the sametime.
1Driver:- All Operating Systems:- Enabled MSI support for Series 6.
- Windows changes:- Resolved an issue under Windows SBS where logical drive deletion and creation events were not created in thewindows event log. Instead an event indicating the device has old or out-of-date firmware. These incorrect events
could lead to potential performance impact.
- Resolved an issue where a Tape device is not exposed properly to the operating system.
- Corrected an issue where the controller would not come back after ACPI Standby (S3) mode.
- Added some performance enhancements- Resolved an issue where expander would continue to show up in Windows 2008 after being removed from thecontroller.
- Resolved an incorrect event generated when expansion is complete.
- Linux/VMware changes:- Added VMware 6.0 support.
- Added Fedora 21 support.
- Added RHEL 7 support.
- Added Citrix XenServer 6.5 support.
- Added Debian 7.6 support.
- Added Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 support.
- Added specific performance enhancments for RHEL/CentOS 6.
- Resolved an issue where SLES 11 SP3 x64 : Error 21 is generated, while installing OS on RAID controller.
- Resolved issues detected with hibernation mode.
- Resolved an issue where log was flooded with mode sense commands in VMware.
- General linux driver performance enhancements.
- Resolved an issue where the controller could not be seen after resuming from a suspend state in Ubuntu.
- FreeBSD changes:- Added FreeBSD 10 support- maxCache Plus changes:- Starting with this release, maxCache Plus is official end of life. There will be no further development orgeneral bug fixes provided.
maxView/ARCCONF:- Installer enhancement (No command window pop-ups during maxView installation/un-installation).
- Increased SMART support for SAS devices.
- Enhanced maxView SMTP mail client to comply with the high secured SMTP servers (gmail, yahoo, etc...)- Added support for Ubuntu 14.04- Added support for RHEL/CentOS 7.1.
- Added Multi-level authentication and access privileges in maxView.
- Added LocalMode (standalone, restricted access from external network) maxView.
- Added Additional detail property in maxView logical property tab explaining the initialization method used tocreate the logical drive.
- Resolved an issue where arcconf would crash when attempting to savesupportarchive in Citrix Xenserver 6.2.
- Resolved an issue where the physical drive temperature was not displayed properly in arcconf and maxView.
- Resolved an issue where Verify Drives in power management cannot be changed back to Never once another value has
been set.
- Resolved an issue where logical device names that contain a dash/hyphen was being truncated under Enterprise
View.
- Added support for JBOD to Simple Volume migration in ARCCONF and maxView.
- Added a check condition when ARCCONF PHYERRORLOG command is executed to avoid drives spinning up that arepowered down due to power management settings.
- Resolved an incorrect capacity header in the Hot Spare Wizard Summary window.
- Resolved an issue preventing write cache properties to be modified for RAW devices.
- Added ability to change running task priority in maxView for RAID creation.
- Resolved an issue that allowed logical drives undergoing RLM or OCE to be deleted.
- Resolved an issue where tape autoloader wasn't being displayed in maxView at initial log in.
- Resolved an issue where drive firmware upgrade would not complete in maxView GOS.
- Resolved an issue where maxView was displaying an incorrect drive negotiation speed.
- Resolved an issue where the background rebuild task status is empty if a physical drive is shared between
overlapping logical drives.
- Resolved an issue where maxView allowed modifications to set properties for failed logical drives.
- Resolved an issue where the size column is empty during a JBOD logical drives creation.
- Resolved an issue where maxView/ARCCONF would fail to properly restore a saved configuration.
- Resolved an issue where the status of a hot removed/plugged physical drive wasn't correctly updating in maxView.
- Added SEEPROM and CPLD version display in ARCCONF getconfig command.
- Resolved an issue that prevented a RAID volume creation from completing when attempting to use two existing
configured logical drives as members.
- Resolved an issue where Verify operation was allowed in maxView for logical drives created using Quick Init
method.
- Resolved an issue where the incorrect logical device status was being display for multiple drive rebuilding inRAID 6.
- Resolved an issue where no logical drive was displayed in enterprise view when a tape autoloader was attached.
- Resolved an issue where SMART stats were not being displayed for some SAS HDD's.
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