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LSI Logic MegaRAID Firmware Release
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Release date: 05/22/07
Controllers Supported:
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MegaRAID SATA 150-4/6
Current Version Previous Version
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Firmware Version: 713S 713R
BIOS Version: G121 G121
Ctrl+M Version: U827 U827
Boot Block Version: R 1.7.7 R 1.7.7
WebBIOS: V2.01 V2.01
Major Firmware Changes since last release
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LSID100065371 (DFCT) Stop error happens when reboot the system after performing hot rebuild
LSID100062207 (Task) - Vitesse HSBP support not working
Installation:
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MAKE SURE TO FLASH THIS FIRMWARE ONLY WHEN USING A MEGARAID SATA 150-4/6 CONTROLLER FROM LSI LOGIC CORPORATION.
1. Create a bootable floppy. This floppy should be a basic boot disk without a config.sys or autoexec.bat; if using a Windows 98 Boot disk, bypass these files by holding down the left shift key.
2. Take a second blank floppy, and extract all the files from the .ZIP with the firmware in it.
3. Reboot the system, and boot from the DOS bootable floppy. At the A:> prompt, remove the first disk and insert the second disk.
4. At the A:> prompt, type MFLASH and hit enter. The MegaRAID flash utility will start.
5. There will be prompts asking if this is the correct adapter, and the correct image. Say yes to both.
6. The firmware will flash. There will be a prompt to reboot the system When the controller has been completely flashed.
Support:
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For support, please visit http://www.megaraid.com.
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Previous Releases
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Release date: 06/26/06
Controllers Supported:
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MegaRAID SATA 150-4/6
Current Version Previous Version
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Firmware Version: 713R 713N
BIOS Version: G121 G119
Ctrl+M Version: U827 U818
Boot Block Version: R 1.7.7 R 1.7.7
WebBIOS: V2.01 V1.91
Major Firmware Changes since last release
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1. Data Corruption while running I/O in Degraded mode
2. Bluescreen and/or Controller hang when PR finds media error on Raid 5
3. Local Command type was not reinitialized after command id was used for local command causing controller hang.
4. System hangs with NUM_TIMER_REQS EXHAUSTED
5. OS crashes with heavy IO on a SATA controller in a system with more than 4GB memory.
6. Recompile with newer WebBIOS with >2TB fix.
7. Under heavy IO, Linux OS would mark SATA 150-6 Megaraid controller (series 523) as dead with the message “megadev: bad address” on the console. Modify FW to handle miscompares.
8. Fix I2C handling to detect various backplanes
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Previous Releases
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Release date: 12/13/04
Controllers Supported:
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MegaRAID SATA 150-4/6
Current Version Previous Version
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Firmware Version: 713N 713G
BIOS Version: G119 G117
Ctrl+M Version: U818 U818
Boot Block Version: R 1.7.7 R 1.7.1
WebBIOS: V1.91 V1.87
Major Firmware Changes since last release: 15
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1. Activity LED support enabled and revised
2. It has been implemented to disable write cache as a factory default option
3. Write even though medium errors found on more than one physical drives in RAID 5
4. Fixed display SATA enclosure information
5. Timeout value for SATA SAF-TE command is increased, in order to better support all SATA back planes
6. The problem of JMR backplane time-out is resolved by implementing a special polling mechanism
7. FW was stuck while retrying a timed-out backplane command in a polling mode with interrupts masked. Changes made in FW to properly retry the timed-out command and come out from the retry loop
8. Data corruption occurs when read or write cached logical drive is made offline, replace one of its physical drive with a new drive and make the LD back online.The cache lines created during old physical drive were not invalidated when the logical goes offline and online back. This was causing the data corruption. We now invalidate all old cache lines when a logical drive state is changed from offline to online. This will address the data corruption problem
9. IDE generic commands time out value has been increased from 31 to 33 seconds in order to better support drives from various vendors
10. Fiwed when running heavy I/Os on write back logical drives and power cycling the system once in particular interval, data corruption occurs eventually because during power-up, FW sometimes doesn’t flush cache even though the cache is dirty
11. Fixed System hangs when running heavy I/Os on write back logical drives with the stripe size 128K
12. Adapter property of PCP and utilities show incorrect (160 MB) adapter speed. The adapter speed call for SATA was not implemented before, so an incorrect value was returned. We’ve now implemented the command for SATA as well
13. Add a new flash chip support
14. Enable drive write cache as a default setting
15. Latest Boot Block and Web Bios have been updated
Important Notes:
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1.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.