Dell SAS 5/iR, 6/iR Adapter/Integrated Workstations Driver

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Driver Id : 3X9HF

Importance : Recommended

Version : 1.28.03.01, A04 Latest version Recommended version Latest and Recommended version

Release Date : 12 Apr 2012

Download Type : Driver

Category : SAS RAID

This package provides Dell SAS 5/iR, 6/iR Adapter/Integrated Workstations Driver and is supported on the Precision models that is running the following Windows Operating System: XP.

Download Files

File Format: This file contains a compressed (or zipped) set of files. Download the file to a folder on your hard drive, and then run (double-click) it to unzip the set of files. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.

File Name: R193679.exe

File size: 183.57 KB

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MD5: 31333a1f05b180fd6fa4b8fc474c525c

SHA1: 7efd7020ce83ea33464b31481a9db70fbc7718ca

SHA-256: 0b5919553a7e795ef78dc7053e20f6f8c3845a363b12cc0f0d76bc57a9793a9b

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File Format: This file format contains plain text which can be viewed with a standard text editor.

File Name: R193679.txt

File size: 6.13 KB

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MD5: 869b31381c9d8663f73753f4e996463e

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Fixes & Enhancements

Fixes
- Fixed the issue of Force OS bus rescan after any F/W fault, to detect unreported volumes changes prior to the fault.
- Fixed malformed bad reply messages.

Enhancements
- Enhanced functionality to detect and properly associate existing volumes with new/deleted hotspares.
- Enhanced the Check for inactive/active volume status before presenting.
- 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:
- Improved 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
- Improvements in driver reset & escalated reset handling
- Improvements in 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.

Installation instructions

Hard Drive Installation (via WinZip) with Setup.exe File

Download

1.Click Download File, 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.

Install

1.Double-click the new icon on the desktop
2.The Self-Extracting window appears and prompts you to extract or unzip to "C:\DELL\DRIVERS\3X9HF". (Where '3X9HF' is the name of the file to be downloaded). Write down this path so the executable (I.e.Setup.exe) file can be found later.
3. The Self-Extractor window appears.
4. Click OK.
5. After completing the file extraction, if the Self-Extractor window is still open, close it.
6. Click Start button and then click Run.
7. Type "C:\DELL\DRIVERS\3X9HF" (where '3X9HF' isthe name of the file) in the Open textbox and then click OK.
8. Follow the on-screen installation instructions.

Download

1. Click the Download File link to download the file.
2. When the File Download window appears, click Save to save the file to your hard drive.

Extract Files
1. Browse to the location where you downloaded the file and double-click the new file to unzip the download package.
2. Specify the location to unzip the files.
3. Click on the unzip button to extract files.

Viewing the User's Guide
1. Double-click on the index.htm file to view the contents of the User's Guide

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Dell SAS 5/iR, 6/iR Adapter/Integrated Workstations Driver

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