AMI Megaraid Firmware Release
for Enterprise 1500 (Series 467),
for Elite 1500(Series 467-2CH) and
for Express 300 (Series 490)
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PACKAGE Version: H79N-210
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Note:
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The packages version is used to refer to the
firmware image. This package version includes both
firmware version number and Bios version number.
1. OEM Name : AMI
2. Release Date: : 06/26/2001
3. New Version Release : Firmware version H79N
BIOS version 2.10,
CNTL-M version 4.14
WebBIOS version 1.13
Mflash version 2.00
3. Previous Version Release : Firmware version H795
BIOS version 2.03,
CNTL-M version 4.13
WebBIOS version 1.13
Mflash version 2.00
Reason for Release (including Bug Fixes and Enhancements and Feature added)
H79N
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1. Request sense for DCDBs which are for SAFTE are not logged.
2. Dirty Cache LED implementation has been fixed.
3. Mode sense/select for drives inserted online has been fixed.
4. Changed Fast Charge implementation for BBU.
5. Fixed timeout in firmware so PC+ would not hang when if drive is not
spinning up properly.
6. Fixed problem where Battery temperature was erroneously being reported
high.
7. Fixed problem where NT partitions would disappear if reconstructions
were going on involving multiple channels.
8. When a drive was inserted the firmware used to detect it but was not
acknowledging the SAFTE processor which in turn caused the firmware to
re-detect in a loop. This would drive the PC+ to scan in a loop as it
would get the drive insertion count increased. This has been fixed.
9. Only Drive ID's 0-11 were detected for insertion with SAF-TE. This is now changed
to 16.
10. There was a problem in resuming the reconstruction
if power was turned off and the cable was changed to a
different channel. This is fixed.
Enhancements:
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1. The number of Scatter-Gather elements supported is now increased to
36.
2. Adapter Baseport is now being reported. This was done for SNMP
agent requirements.
3. CheckConsistency Rate is controlled by Rebuild Rate (0-20%). For 0-->20%
the checkconsistency will complete in X-->Y time where X is greater than
Y. By doing this the firmware gives more time to other I/O's.
4. During a rebuild if a bad block is encountered the f/w will continue
the rebuild and complete it. After that it fails the drive in which
bad block was encountered. The utilities can then read the bad block
information.
BIOS Changes:
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2.10
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1. v 2.04 to 2.09 were not compatible with version 2.03 and earlier
because of BIOS change. Now added support so that the BIOS is
compatible with either v 2.03 and earlier or with v 2.04 to 2.09,
not both, as is not possible.
2.09
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1. Added support to wait indefinitely in case of unresolved config
mismatch and FORCE BOOT option is OFF, else if option is ON then
it will continue to boot.
2. Fixed a Win2K install problem.
2.08
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1. There were some extra characters in the BIOS tha was causing
a checksum failure and thus was hindering POSTing of the BIOS
Now solved in this release.
2.07
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1. Now frees up the PMM memory, if allocated, upon exiting the BIOS
2.06
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1. In the event of an NVRAM mismatch, BIOS checks the switch
whether to use the disk config to update NVRAM or not. If
switch is set then it reads the disk config and writes it to
NVRAM configuration and reboots the system so that configuration
becomes effective.
2.05
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1. In case of reconstruction now also displays the Ctrl-H option.
2. In case of NVRAM mismatch now doesn't timeout but wait for
user input before proceeding.
3. 'Elite 1500' is shown as the type if 467 with 2 channel is
detected.
2.04
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1. In case of critical error rather than waiting for a key infinitly
now times out after 6 seconds made default for AMI.
2. Made the BIOS EDDS 3.0 compliant (with some restrictions).
Ctrl-M change:
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1. Disallow "Addition of physical drive" for reconstruction.
Features:
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Type of SAF_TE : GEM
Cluster Support : Yes
SPAN : 8
Installation:
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You must make sure you are flashing this firmware to an
Enterprise 1500 (467) or an Elite 1500 (467 2-Ch) or
an Express 300 (490) controller from American Megatrends.
Boot to DOS and type MFLASH. The controller will be detected and
you will be prompted to continue with the flash utility. Do not reboot
your system until prompted to do so.
File Listing
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Size Date Time File
84,120 03-06-01 10:34a MFLASH.EXE
1,048,576 03-13-01 2:41p RP.IMG
5,319 06-26-01 1:07p README.TXT
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