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Adaptec RAID Release dated: March 7, 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 7.4.0 Build 30862- Windows Driver (32-bit and 64-bit) Version 7.4.0.30850- Linux Driver Version 1.2.1-40300- VMware Driver Version 1.2.1.-40301- maxView Storage Manager (MSM) Version 1.05 Build 20942
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 8805
- Adaptec RAID 8885
- Adaptec RAID 8885Q- Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
3. Enhancements and Bug Fixes:==============================General:- New product release of the Series 8 Adaptec RAID Controller Family- Added 4k native sector support- Added two new controller modes, RAID: Expose RAW mode and RAID: Hide RAW mode
- Added Save Support Archive feature to UEFI
- Drive spinup staggering control added to CTRL-A and ARCCONF- Added maxCache Plus support for 8Q/8ZQ
Firmware:- Resolved a rare issue where a controller could become inoperable after an un-safe system shutdown occurs
after a successful firmware flash upgrade is performed- Resolved an issue that could result in Host IO errors, RAID Volume state changes, non-responsive
systems, and system reboots or resets in rare cases where extremely high IO loads are served almost
entirely from controller cache- Resolved an issue that could cause a controller BlinkLED during a RAID 5 expansion or migration- Resolved an issue with Global Hot Spare assignments when 512b and 4k drives are inter-mixed- Resolved an issue where USB keyboard would cease to function with Series 7 installed- Silencing the alarm within the UEFI BIOS now functions properly- Corrected a discrepancy issue with max RAID size when created via UEFI versus CTRL+A- Improved random write cache algorithms and enhanced disk ramp-up time
- Support for ATA passthrough non-data commands- Enhanced hot remove/add detection and reporting- Resolved an issue where maxCache read cache was disabled if no AFM was attached- Resolved an issue where a drive could be marked offline due to excessive aborted commands- Resolved an issue where a kernel panic could occur on the controller when large number of logicaldevices were configured- Corrected an issue where a RAID 0 with a failed member would report as "Degraded" in UEFI BIOS, insteadof "Offline"- Resolved a BSOD issue with a bootable RAW drive when controller switched to auto-volume/RAID mode
- Resolved an issue where a hot added drive enclosure with no drives installed would appear as a drive inmaxView/ARCCONF- Resolved an issue where ARCCONF was reporting inaccurate latency values- Fixed several incorrect statistics reported in ARCCONF Stats output- Resolved an issue where <F6> would not load controller defaults- Physical devices are now sorted by enclosure in UEFI HII1

- Resolved an issue where drives were not detected when multiple SMC enclosures are attached- Added support for SATA drives in Raw Mode to work in SEC4 and SEC5 security states- Corrected an issue that would result in an error of "Not Enough Available Space" when attempting tocreate an array in UEFI HII- Corrected an issue that would prevent the deletion of a RAID in UEFI HII if created in CTRL-A- Resolved an issue preventing Windows 2012 from resuming after sleep
Driver:- All Operating Systems:- 4k native sector support- MSIX support- Performance enhancements- Support for new Series 8 Family- Windows changes:- Resolved an issue that prevented the installation of Windows 8/2012 on an RAW drive when controller set
to RAID mode
- Resolved BSOD condition when attempting sleep mode state change in Windows 8- Linux changes:- Added DKMS driver support for Fedora kernel versions 3.8 and 3.9.
- Resolved an issue where the displayed logical device name was truncated if greater than 15 characters- Resolved an issue where there was a discrepancy between the reported size of a logical device atcreation versus what is made available to the operating system- Corrected an issue that would cause a kernel hang during a driver re-load- Corrected an issue that could cause a kernel panic under VMware (4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5) during a reboot
maxView/ARCCONF:- maxView architectural changes have been made to significantly improve UI responsiveness- Email recipient for event notification is now customizable- Tape driver support has been added to the maxView user interface- Resolved an issue where the "Cache flush and fetch rate" setting for a maxCache container could not bechanged- Resolved an issue where the drive firmware version was not updating after successfully flashing updated
drive firmware in maxView- Resolved an issue where newly created RAID arrays were not properly updating in VMware GuestOS maxView- Resolved an issue where the array status would incorrectly display as optimal for a redundant array witha failed member- Resolved an issue where the Verify option was greyed out after a RAID array was created usingbuild/clear method- Resolved an issue where logical device resources were not properly displayed during a RAID
reconfiguration- Identified an issue that would prevent a user from logging into maxView after installation on Solaris 11- Identified an issue preventing an online capacity expansion (OCE) from being performed using ARCCONF- Resolved an issue where maxView was unable to blink drive LED with Chenbro enclosures- Resolved an issue that would prevent read and write logical drive cache settings from being changed atthe same time
- Resolved an issue where Verify or Verfiy w/ fix operation could not be performed on a maxCache container- Resolved an issue where a virtual pool creation within maxConf would fail if pool was created in maxView- Identified and resolved an issue where an array wasn't showing protected by a hotspare after thecompletion of a copyback- Resolved an issue where no information was appearing in the "Resources" tab in maxView for a RAID volume-------------------------------------------------------------------(c) 2013 PMC-Sierra, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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