Firmware-update: Areca SATA RAID-adapters 1.38

Areca heeft gisteren een nieuwe firmware-versie uitgebracht voor zijn Serial ATA RAID-adapters. Firmware versie 1.38 is van toepassing op zowel de PCI-X als PCI Express kaarten van het bedrijf. Naast diverse bugfixes, waaronder oplossingen voor errata in de door Areca gebruikte SATA-controllers van Marvell en I/O processors van Intel, is er de mogelijkheid toevoegd om de ethernet management poort op de adapters met twaalf of meer poorten uit te schakelen. Om ervoor te zorgen dat de ethernet poort na de firmware update is ingeschakeld moeten gebruikers eerst in het ethernet configuratie menu de "confirm operations box" bevestigen. Zie voor uitleg de onderstaande changelog, waarin ook de wijzigingen uit de niet-publieke versie 1.37 zijn opgenomen. Daardoor is een redelijk omvangrijke update ontstaan. De nieuwe firmware kun je downloaden vanaf de Nederlandse ftp-mirror van Areca en kan geïnstalleerd worden via de webbased management tool.

De changelog maakt ook duidelijk dat Areca producten in ontwikkeling heeft op basis van de Intel IOP333-processor. De IOP333 heeft geïntegreerde ondersteuning voor RAID 6 en draait op een hogere kloksnelheid dan de processors die Areca momenteel in op zijn SATA RAID-adapters gebruikt.

Release Note For V1.37 Firmware

2005-3-30

1) Fix IOP333 model display in terminal and HTTP

2005-4-4

1) Fix RS232Int, FIFO always disable for IOP331/332/333 and W83877 (only TX4927/TX4937 need to clear InterruptID)
2) Patch 88SX5080/88SX6081 for 3G HDD when configured as 1.5G need to check 6081 B0/B2, 5080 for 3G, and for normal case, return from power loss

2005-4-6

1) Disable 88SX6081 B0 stepping 3G support (B0 revision ID is 2, B2 is 7)

2005-4-7

1) Fix HDS728080PLA380 (80G HDD) can not be detected sometimes in 6081B0 controller and cold start.
2) Add setting to disable HDD temperature polling in smart hdd temp system SMART_HDD_TEMP_SETTING
3) 88SX6081 : Disable GEN-II Phy support if max SATA mode is 1.5G to fix HDS728080PLA380(in 3G mode) not detected in 1.5G controller mode

2005-4-8

1) Add Battery status to SNMP HW monitor status, one entry is added
2) Add setting to disable adapter CPU Fan Warning This option can be used in ARC1XXX series only and implemented in VT100 configuration only

2005-4-12

1) Fix ARC1XXX reboot hang or show error

2005-4-15

1) Fix DHCP bug if windows DHCP server is used, windows DHCP server need DHCP request and DHCP ack sequence to complete DHCP action

2005-4-20

1) Modify 2TB warning string

2005-4-29

1) Modify unsupported LUN0 device type to 0x20, org 0x1F. Windows will display an other device if device type is 0x1F

2005-5-13

1) Modify unsupported LUN0 device type back to 0x1F. Server 2003 will not recognize this device if 0x20 is used.

2005-5-16

1) Add Intel spec update 2005-march for DDR-I reliability issue

2005-5-19

1) Change default setting of SMART_HDD_TEMP_SETTING setting to disable

2005-5-25

1) if some degraded mode volume is detected during reboot, set alarm on 2 Fix if any raidset is in degraded mode during boot, turn beeper on

2005-5-26

1) After rebuild, check if beeper should be muted

2005-6-10

1) Fix SATA problem, HDD cannnot be detected if non-NCQ drive is used after NCQ drive

2005-6-16

1) Build ARC1170 to use different signature if HDDs > 16
2) Add Network Time Protocol support

2005-6-17

1) Modify HTTP & TELNET, if port # is 0 --> disabled
2) Add 250MHz IOP331 support

2005-6-21

1) Add unit serial number support
2) Advanced Feature created

2005-6-27

1) Fix LCD Display for IDE channel # to support > 20 channels
2) Add raidset degraded message to LCD if power failed and recovered
3) Fix NEW_83782D_HW event for SMTP & SNMP (not properly set)
4) Modify NEW_83782D_HWMON

2005-6-28

1) Change GUI timeout to 5 minutes

2005-6-30

1) Unify SNMP/SMTP setting wording

2005-7-12

1) Fix NTP : Trigger NTP every time DHCP is triggered

2005-8-2

1) Fix ARC1170/1270:if channel >= 16 for JBOD, these device is ignored

2005-8-17

1) Fix Intel Errata, if host request address at xxxxxxxx FFFFE000, the internal MMR will response and corrupt the system.

2005-8-23

1) Patch MARVELL Errata found by WISTRON (some channel has hotplug problem if temperature is high enough)

2005-8-24

1) Fix GUI Identify Drive Problem
2) Fix InitializeIdeChip's ResetChannel function for battery backup

2005-8-29

1) Modify IOP332/333 init to park arbiter on IOP332/333 to patch marvell SATA chip errata

2005-8-30

1) Fix SATA HDD intermittently disconnected and reconnected

< 2005-9-2

1) V1.37 2005-9-2

Release Note For V1.38 Firmware

2005-9-6

1) Fix Disk R/W test flag, if already completed, do not set abort flag

2005-9-7

1) Send 32 combined event for every 32 events SEND_32_EVENTS should be defined (mail subject marked with ***)

2005-9-16

1) Modify inquiry page data length to 96 bytes. (org 98 bytes)

2005-9-22

1) Add HDD_READ_AHEAD_SETUP for disabling HDD read ahead cache (to improve maxtor hdd reliability)

2005-9-23

1) Remove Pci Reset Control for IOP332/333 controller

2005-9-28

1) Fix RAIDSET expansion from VT100 migration hang

2005-9-29

1) Fix WD400G HDD hot remove/plug cannot be detected.

2005-9-30

1) Fix migration hang if volume is expanded and then do more then two
2) modify new event warning level (NEW_83782D_)

2005-10-3

1) Add SMTP_PORT_SETTING

2005-10-4

1 V1.38 2005-10-4
HTTP_EVENT_ONE_PAGE 1
HDD_READ_AHEAD_SETUP 1

Attention:

If your controller have onboard lan port. before you update firmware to V1.38 please do following procedures once to make sure the ethernet will works after firmware updated.

1. enter the System controls > ethernet config menu
2. check the "confirm the operation" box. then click the 'Submit' icon.

Because the V1.38 firmware supports disabling ethernet function. When you set the port number to 0, firmware will automatically disable it. And because this is a new function, the default port setting in old firmware is 0. So you must save the correct port number once to make sure ethernet will not be disabled after you update the firmware to V1.38.