Areca heeft recentelijk nieuwe firmware voor zijn sata-raid-adapters uitgebracht. Versie 1.43 wordt nog niet vermeld in de downloadsectie van de Areca-website en is dus mogelijk nog beta. De downloads voor de verschillende typen raid-controllers kunnen opgehaald worden via deze directory op de Nederlandse ftp-mirror. Het changelog meldt de volgende wijzigingen:
Change Log For V1.43 Firmware
2006-10-171 Create ARC1231 ID:17D3-1280 SUBID:17D3-1231
2006-10-18
Create ARC1261 ID:17D3-1280 SUBID:17D3-1261
2 Fix ARC1280 boot code for single core IOP3411 TLER modified back to default
2006-10-191 Fix IOP331/332/333 based PCI adapter installed on MAC-PRO problem.
2006-10-26
2 Fix ARC1110/1210:support R6.1 Fix when raid is degraded and hdd missing offline and reboot.
2006-11-21 Change "For Windows" back to "4K Block" for over 2TB support
2006-11-71 Correct display of raid capacity over 10 Tera bytes
2006-11-14
2 Fix VT100/LCD display error for raid larger than 10Tera bytes1 Fix bug for 64bit FRAM LOG address error
2006-11-171 Fix filter of smart hdd temp, if smart polling is disabled then enabled, the temperature will star from -122 and up slowly.
2006-12-61 IOP34X:fix boot code ECC checking code
2006-12-8
2 IOP34X:change RANK size check method1 Fix ARC1210/1220/1230/1260 refresh interval incorrect, different from IOP331 based ARC11X0 controller
2006-12-111 Fix ARC1XXX:SDRAM programming error
2007-1-191 Fix ARC1120/1130/1160/1220/1230/1260 with ARC R6 engine XOR/RSC check flag
2007-1-231 Add battery status report in gui
2007-1-25
2 Add HDD smart status report in gui including media error count and timeout count1 Fix ARC11x0/12x0 SCSI compliance test (A) Return INQUIRY and mode sense length (B) Fix 10 bytes mode sense length
2007-1-291 Fix volume size limit to be 512T
2007-2-7
2 Fix ARC1231/1261/1280 with LCD may hangup, unmatched I2C port lock/unlock1 Fix ARC1XXX, spin down/up, add SPIN_UP_IN_THREAD
2007-4-10
2 Fix hang when delete failed migration volume1 Fix IOP332/333 based controller work with INTEL S3000AH with PCIE link down issue.
2007-4-111 Add patch for 60x1
2007-4-121 Fix ARC1280/1231/1261/1221 with dual core IOP342 or IOP348 problem
2007-4-131 Fix ARC1xxx update firmware from HTTP and got "Invalid Firmware Signature" casued by network divide packet into one more fragment, firmware should check this condition to avoid this problem.
2007-4-16
2 Add LED_POLARITY_SETTABLE for ARC1xxx1 Add WD 10000RPM drive detection failed
2 Build 1.43 for ARC1xxx (PCI-X/PCI-E)