LSI 9265-8i /9285-8e/9285CV 6G FW 23.18.0-0015, 2014 BLK2

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.