[20130306, updated]LSISAS2208/2108/2008 new f/w is out!!

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LSISAS2208, MR5.6, 23.12.0.0011:
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/23.12.0.0011_SAS_FW_IMAGE_APP_3.240.05-2282.zip
Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
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FIRMWARE:
SCGCQ00343193 - (Closed) - FW crashes during foreign configuration import.
SCGCQ00353334 - (Closed) - Evaluation Order Violation
SCGCQ00353358 - (Closed) - Operands don't affect result
SCGCQ00353906 - (Closed) - Development tool fixes
SCGCQ00358678 - (Closed) - Enclosure was not detected.
SCGCQ00369216 - (Closed) - OVERRUN STATIC: CIDs 10281, 10283 Out-of-bounds access
SCGCQ00369611 - (Closed) - Development tool fixes
SCGCQ00369667 - (Closed) - Drives need to be marked foreign when its state changes to unconfigured good and it has a valid DDF.
SCGCQ00372061 - (Closed) - Development tool fixes
SCGCQ00363693 - (Closed) - Development tool fixes
SCGCQ00364253 - (Closed) - UNUSED VALUE : CIDs 10376, 10377, 10398, 10399
SCGCQ00378971 - (Closed) - Continues PR 2nd time on Raid 1 and then delete VD and reboot system cause debugger to continues loop and want to run PR
SCGCQ00384874 - (Closed) - MR5.6 Beta Firmware BST: MonTask: line 5911 in file ../../raid/pd.c
SCGCQ00356781 - (Closed) - System hanged after pulling out drives from a 8Raid-6 array during OCR in Debian OS
SCGCQ00358060 - (Closed) - Logically dead code
SCGCQ00358069 - (Closed) - In printMrLdConfig(), pointer is checked against null but then dereferenced anyway
SCGCQ00359118 - (Closed) - Firmware does not allow CacheCade VDs to be created
SCGCQ00364620 - (Closed) - Fix For development tool Defects Reported
SCGCQ00381562 - (Closed) - "Assertion failure in ../../raid/mem.c at line 281" on issuing "adpdiag" from megacli-dos
SCGCQ00353296 - (Closed) - Get_Time_Delta() has incorrect pointer increment
SCGCQ00357185 - (Closed) - In configRaid, value returned from a function is not checked for errors before being used
SCGCQ00375418 - (Closed) - Fix For development tool Defects Reported
SCGCQ00375763 - (Closed) - Firmware asserted at raid/cache.c at line 3661 when VDs are offline
SCGCQ00378916 - (Closed) - Timed critical boot message under UEFI mode not showing
SCGCQ00380450 - (Closed) - MegaCli pdFwDownload fails on a SATA drive with an interposer (parent defect is SCGCQ00352210)
SCGCQ00365342 - (Closed) - Wrong value returned for the field "CacheOffLoad" under the class "lsiesg_megaraidhbaadvancesoftware".
SCGCQ00391493 - (Closed) - Firmware blocked firmware download to interposer
SCGCQ00331565 - (Closed) - Punctured Block Logging Improvements
SCGCQ00348163 - (Closed) - Fault LED behavior in OEM Blades
SCGCQ00318098 - (Closed) - temporary patch.
SCGCQ00331572 - (Closed) - Boot the system to iMR mode if NVRAM is not initialized.
SCGCQ00357927 - (Port_Complete) - We should not be directly unregistering the device from the DISM code. As, we do have a proper device removal state machine scheduled in the task list to do that.
SCGCQ00361327 - (Port_Complete) - A good SuperCap could be prematurely marked as failed.
SCGCQ00367948 - (Port_Complete) - FW goes to montask at cache offload.
SCGCQ00372173 - (Port_Complete) - MR2208 JBOD function can't handle the UNC error of SATA disk
SCGCQ00374198 - (Port_Complete) - A SuperCap could be shown as prematurely failed if a reboot occurred immediately after a learn cycle completed.
SCGCQ00374208 - (Port_Complete) - If a double bit error occurs during memory initialization on a OEM controller, GPIO 19 will now be asserted.
SCGCQ00357590 - (Port_Not_Required) - CSET: MR_DS3: all PDS missing after few rounds of enclosure pull/push run. - (SCGCQ00354731)
SCGCQ00360912 - (Port_Complete) - VD becomes WT with a good & new Super Cap on boot
SCGCQ00364140 - (Port_Complete) - Error Message "incompatible secondary iButton present!" or "BIOS handshaking With The FW,Wait" shown
SCGCQ00373302 - (Port_Complete) - SCSI Pass-Through to SAS SSD returns data but disk reported medium error
SCGCQ00374201 - (Port_Complete) - The SuperCap will now remain in the failed state when its capacitance falls below the minimum or its resistance exceeds the maximum
SCGCQ00357221 - (Port_Complete) - Cache offload would not work when a USB debugger was attached
SCGCQ00374210 - (Port_Complete) - multi path with Consistency Check LED behavior problem
SCGCQ00357937 - (Port_Complete) - We should not add a SEP device to the enclosure tracker.
SCGCQ00360965 - (Port_Complete) - VD Degraded after reconstruction of R5
SCGCQ00381794 - (Port_Complete) - T-Bolt MR Controller Rejects Vendor Unique SCSI Command
SCGCQ00381812 - (Port_Complete) - (multiple) Megacli64 error in deadlock state

WebBIOS
SCGCQ00288524 - (Closed) - Remaining capacity is coming 0 from FW.
SCGCQ00308400 - (Closed) - WebBIOS does not warn user before importing PI enabled VD on PI disabled controller.
SCGCQ00309063 - (Closed) - WebBIOS does not show "Day" for Next learn cycle time in battery page. And issue with safe mode.
SCGCQ00327325 - (Closed) - FW completely halted/hung when selecting drives in WebBIOS after reinserting drives with pinned cache present present
SCGCQ00308556 - (Closed) - Preboot apps have to change load address change because of FW changes.
SCGCQ00308401 - (Closed) - WebBIOS reports incorrect number of foreign configs during "Scan Devices"
SCGCQ00309056 - (Closed) - WebBIOS should not allow RLM for protected VDs with non-PI drives.
SCGCQ00318379 - (Closed) - "4K sector support"
SCGCQ00344103 - (Closed) - Not able to associate multiple VDs in a cache pool.
SCGCQ00309218 - (Closed) - WebBIOS displays SSD association     screen for Secured and Protected VDs (Virtual drive table is empty).
SCGCQ00342568 - (Closed) - User is not able to see offline virtual drive property page.
SCGCQ00322775 - (Closed) - "Boot error handling" options are not correct in WebBIOS.
SCGCQ00289513 - (Closed) - Battery Firmware vesion(MR_BBU_DESIGN_INFO.moduleVersion) is coming as Null
SCGCQ00322246 - (Closed) - Add 4k sector support in WebBIOS
SCGCQ00324759 - (Closed) - bit in MR_PD_INFO for SSD Qualifier: SCGCQ00296487
SCGCQ00322603 - (Closed) - Utilities to show logical block size [AF512e, 512n, 4Kn,..]

NVDATA
SCGCQ00333522 - (Closed) - Degraded performance comparison With the latest MR 5.3 -MR_3.190.25.1887
SCGCQ00351785 - (Closed) - Fault LED behavior in OEM Blades

UEFI Driver
SCGCQ00369636 - (Closed) - UEFI: Settime only when FW time is not set; DHP: Return appropriate health status when there is no critical boot message
SCGCQ00340581 - (Implemented) - UEFI Driver should check pMRCtrlInfo ->maxHANodes with > 1
SCGCQ00310476 - (Implemented) - Load HII when user responds to critical boot message by pressing C

HII
SCGCQ00378089 Headline: HII hangs when trying to enter Configuration Management while in Safe Mode
SCGCQ00378414 HII message for Safe Mode is not clear
SCGCQ00378831 Headline: HEFU: Controller Status should reflect safe mode + dont log debug messages in serial port

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LSISAS2108, MR4.10, v12.13.0-0154:
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Pub ... P2.130.383-2315.zip
Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
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Firmware:
SCGCQ00307050        Defect        Not able to flash both 9265-8i and 9285-8e card with 5.3 patch 1 firmware.However, it is ok on 9266-8i.
SCGCQ00338490        Defect        Invalid target ID after new logical drive creation
SCGCQ00341791        Defect        Support for mutlipath topology is broken
SCGCQ00361303        Defect        On iMR FW update caused card to FW fault state and card cannot boot to OS.
SCGCQ00371477        Defect        During Reconstruction (R0->R5) when system reboots the reconstruction doesnt resume. System hangs.
SCGCQ00375250        Defect        OEM BMC see clock stetching on I2C bus
SCGCQ00375854        Defect        adapterOperations.alarmControl is being set to 1 even if controller doesnot have alarm on board
SCGCQ00384381        Defect        Drive temperature is shown very high on 9240
SCGCQ00391094        Defect        9260-16i's drive locate/fault LED header doesn't work
SCGCQ00392062        Defect        Firmware halts when flashing components other than app.rom for OEM controller
SCGCQ00392063        Defect        PL library and files checkin for PL version 5.38
SCGCQ00396335        Defect        9260-16i's drive locate/fault LED header is not working properly.
SCGCQ00363619        EnhancementRequest        Set the Recovery mode page (WriteRetryCount and recoveryTimeLimit)

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LSISAS2108, MR4.10, v12.13.0-0151:
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Pub ... P2.130.383-2230.zip
LSISAS2008, MR4.10, v2.130.384-2166:
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Pub ... P2.130.384-2166.zip

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
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Firmware:
SCGCQ00341980 - (Closed) - Current Access policy is not getting updated for iMR
SCGCQ00353935 - (Resolved) - Add support for Ringbuffer and Dq compilation
SCGCQ00356925 - (Closed) - disableHII: Needs to be updated from nvdata into MFCD
SCGCQ00357046 - (Closed) - 9240-4i on particular motherboard is not getting required memory resources on boot
SCGCQ00349562 - (Closed) - Unable to open "Set Patrol Read Properties" in MSM with 2008-iMR
SCGCQ00362340 - (Closed) - multi path with Consistency Check LED behavior problem
SCGCQ00342405 - (Implemented) - Enable or disable 512E using Applications
SCGCQ00342397 - (Implemented) - Provide the count of LBAs that are present in the sata bbm table.
SCGCQ00350996 - (Closed) - Fail the IO in case the medium error recovery is taking more time.
SCGCQ00359200 - (Port_Complete) - offline drive becomes automatically online during Raid Level Migration
SCGCQ00371803 - (Port_Complete) - During Reconstruction (R0->R5) when system reboots the reconstruction doesnt resume. System hangs.
SCGCQ00358361 - (Port_Complete) - Bad disk being serviced hung Linux boot for 2 hours
SCGCQ00373802 - (Port_Complete) - Auto Foreign import fails when controller is booted with pinned cache.

UEFI Driver:
SCGCQ00347171 - (Closed) - MR: on having pinned cache on OEM controller, the option to invoke storage dosent come.
SCGCQ00369636 - (Closed) - UEFI: Settime only when FW time is not set; DHP: Return appropriate health status when there is no critical boot message
SCGCQ00340581 - (Implemented) - UEFI Driver should check pMRCtrlInfo ->maxHANodes with > 1
SCGCQ00318101 - (Closed) - Timed critical boot message under UEFI mode
SCGCQ00347492 - (Closed) - UEFI: Retry read capacity if scsi status is not success
SCGCQ00310476 - (Implemented) - Load HII when user responds to critical boot message by pressing C

HII:
SCGCQ00268038 (DFCT) - Hii enter black screen/timeout when user switching between fields/form sub_form and during Pd rebuild.
SCGCQ00364156 (CSET) - Remove debug message which is not applicable for non Mercury customers