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Fixes & Enhancements
Fixes: 1. BGI does not correct ECC medium errors on 2nd arm of Raid 10 array 2. Irrelevant Popup message in HII due to FW filling MR_BIOS_DATA.bootTargetID with 1 when there is no VD or JBOD 3. Drives dropped when flashing FW back from MR5.3 to 11M08 and FW crashes with TLB error 4. When using 6GB drives with or without the interposer, the drives will not show. 5. Change POST message for no" FoD key installed but config is on drives". 6. Cannot import full foreign config after pulling and re-inserting SSD drives. 7. Foreign config after reboot 8. MR5.4 FW loses its time settings during the OCR. 9. Voltage backdriving from serial port into adapter 10. MegaRAID 5.5 firmware writes DDF revision 2.0 on the 512 sector drives 11. True Random Number Generator BIST failed; Error code is 2 12. FW breaks into Montask after running OCR during I/O 13. when trying to import 64 VDs from a 1078 controller, the FW breaks into montask. 14. Megacli64 Full init cause continuous error in ouput like this 156xxx end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 15. MegaRAID firmware does not detect devices after spin-up failure 16. FW does not fail drive when excessive time is spent during recovery of CME's 17. FW reports supercap device chemistry as "EDLC" but apps do not see any device chemistry 18. FW reports Supercap FW version but apps do not see any supercap FW version 19. MegaRAID firmware hangs when 4K sector drive is connected 20. FW is flashed through Online Firmware Update method but no reset is performed after flashing 21. MegaRAID firmware does not handle the Bad Block Log correctly 22. When starting a reconstruction and rebooting the system to continue, debug message are constantly being scrolled 23. iMR firmware continuously soft reset when running I/O using IOMETER on 16 RAID5 VDs 24. 512E hard drives show up as unsupported drives. 25. Firmware failed to import all VDs after enclosure is removed and re-insert 26. Address Action Item SCGCQ00340495 (Check coding standard for structure OfuRequestState) 27. Performance drop at QD 8 and above running 4 KB Seq. Read 28. Overnight I/O on VDs w/SSC and breaking Multi-path breaks into MegaMon (Interposers) 29. Running PR on Multi-path enclosure, removing one cable and reinserting it deletes all VDs 31. MSM allows OFU from MR 5.5 fw to MR 5.4 firmware then failed during upgrade 32. When importing various VDs with different stipe sizes and rebuild, the PDs come back failed 33. After flash controller with 5.5, VDs are no longer handled by BIOS 34. HII, WebBIOS & CLI reports supercap battery type as "SuperCapEDLC" 35. Unable to enable ocr using application due to FW ocr setting taking precedence 36. To Improve iMR Performance 37. Multipath breaks into montask after VD creation 38. maintainpdfailhistory = 0, but PDs come back as unconfigured bad anyway. 39. Multi-Path is not re-enabling when cable is removed and re-inserted 40. When a configured drive is pulled and re-inserted it is left foreign 41. When going from 5.3+GCA or PKG 6 to PKG 16, unable to import config. 42. Interposer Multi-path failover is failing 2 Drives from R5 43. OFU is disabled by default 44. Repeated power cycling the enclosure with interposers results in drive
Enhancements:
1. Add support for DDF2.0 specifications 2. Implement changes to mitigate performance degradation related to 512e I/O misalignment 3. Added support for a new MegaRAID I2C DCMD that returns the firmware package version and date stamp. 4. MR HWR CacheVault message : Change the word "USB" in any CacheVault related messages. 5. Use qualified SSD for super cache.
Dell Technologies recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains changes to maintain overall system health. It ensures that the system software remains current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers, and software) and may include other new features.
File Format:One or more self extracting disk images inside of a self extracting zip
File Name:MR_5_8_FW23.18.0-0015_MegaCLI.EXE
File Size:5.31 MB
This is a large file. Depending on your connection speed, it may take some time to download.
Format Description:
This file contains a compressed (or zipped) set of files. Download the file to a folder on your hard drive, then double-click it to unzip the set of files. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
1.Click Download now, to download the file. 2. When the File Download window appears, click Save or Save this program to disk and click OK. The Save In: window appears. 3. From the Save In: field, click the down arrow then click to select Desktop and click Save. The file will download to your desktop. 4. If the Download Complete window appears, click Close. The file icon appears on your desktop.
Installation 1. Browse to the location where you downloaded the file and double-click the new file.
2. Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers. Please unzip the MegaCLI update utility in attachment