SAS 5/E and SAS 5/i Device Driver Windows Server 2003 x64 Version: 1.28.03.01

- Force OS bus rescan after any F/W fault, to detect unreported volumes changes prior to the fault. - Add functionality to detect and properly associate existing volumes with new/deleted hotspares. - Check for inactive/active volume status before presenting the volume to the OS. - Improve handshake negotiations on drive hotplug activities. - Log system event error when the Persistency Table is full. - Changes on the F/W download activity to reduce impact to users. - Increased timeout for FW download. - Add functionality to allow removing more than 64 devices in one action. - Added support for detecting dual port SAS drives or detecting SATA drives behind a port selector - General improvements on error detection and task management functions: .. Improve handling of bus change requests (pause/resume/detect) .. Better error detection for SAS tape environments .. Better handling of NULL SRB's .. Send Diag Reset instead of Message Unit Reset if a stuck LUN or Target Reset condition occurs .. Fixed malformed bad reply messages .. Improvements in driver reset & escalated reset handling .. Improvements handling error returns from FW - Algorithm changes to better work with storport and meet all new requirements - Added reset queue to execute resets for different target/LUNs in the order received. - Added detection of Task Aborted SCSI status returned from target to force a retry by the Windows port driver, MPIO, or the Disk class driver and avoid potential data corruption on Write. Problem limited to some multi-initiator RBOD configurations.