IBM HBA/LSI onboard 6 Gigbit SAS/SATA/SSD driver v15.00.00.00 for RHEL 5 - IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex System

• New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

Severity: Suggested

Change history

IBM HBA/LSI Onboard 6Gb SAS/SATA/SSD Driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Version 15.00.00.00 - Suggested

Supported Controllers:

• IBM 300GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter (90Y4361)
• IBM 800GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter (90Y4369)
• IBM 300GB High IOPS SLC Modular Adapter (90Y4373)
• IBM 600GB High IOPS MLC Modular Adapter (90Y4365)
• ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4492)
• IBM 6Gb SAS HBA (46M0907)
• IBM 6Gb SSD HBA (68Y7362)
• Onboard LSI 2004 SAS

Supported Kernels (RHEL) :

• 5.8 - 2.6.18-308
• 5.7 - 2.6.18-274
• 5.6 - 2.6.18-238

NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN N/A

Enhancements:

• Add support for RHEL 5.7 and 5.8
• Add support for 300GB MLC (90Y4361), 600GB MLC (90Y4365), 800GB MLC (90Y4369) and 300GB SLC (90Y4373)

Version 10.30.00.00

Supported Controllers:

• ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x (81Y4492)
• IBM 6Gb SAS HBA (46M0907)
• IBM 6Gb SSD HBA (68Y7362)
• Onboard LSI 2004 SAS

Supported Kernesl:

• RHEL 5.6    2.6.18-238
• RHEL 5.5    2.6.18-194
• RHEL 5.4    2.6.18-164

Fixes:

• Use a different method for blocking IO request from SCSI Mid Layer when using the SysFS shost attribute called task_management.
• Fixed issue to not allow IOCTLS to be processed when tge device driver is loading, which could cause a kernel panic.
• Added support in asynchronous scanning logic to handle faults during discovery when loading the driver.
• Allocate only one msix vector for the controllers that do not support multi-reply queues and NUMA IO.
• Added per lun delete flag to addres an issue where a cable is removed and added back within the DMD timer expired timeout.
• Fixed issue with reading raid configuration information for inactive volumes
• Fixed issue where a Stack trace seen in message log after cable pull and host reset.
• Fixed issue where The configuration pages are failing if raid volume is configured while issuing a host reset
• Fixed issue where the Devices are not removed after "cable pull".
• Fixed issue when devices are behind two deep cascaded expanders, they don't get added if the "cable add" is done while host reset is active.
• Fixed a failure message displayed in the log messages during host reset while removing devices
• Fixed issue where drives are not getting removed when the enclosure cable is pulled out from the expander and Port Reset is issued.
• Fixed issue where the Chip Resets results in repeated timeouts.
• Fixed issue with expanders where a hang occurs when there is smart error.

Version 4.30.01.00

• Initial release

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