Areca heeft alweer even geleden voor de raid-controllers in de ARC-11xx-, ARC-12xx-, ARC-1680- en ARC-1880-series nieuwe firmware uitgebracht, met 1.49 als versienummer. Nieuw is onder andere de toevoeging en optimalisatie van de ARC-1880-series en het ondersteunen van harde schijven groter dan 2TB. De volledige lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Change Log For V1.49 Firmware
- Improve SMP support for ARC1680
- ARC1680/1212/1682 4.9.2.0 transport firmware N.G. for some HDDs use 4.7.3.0
- Fix VOLUME_FAILED cause controller to hang
- ARC1880:1st release
- Add:HP SAS EXP Card 2.02 support
- SAS_HOST_MODE:support 6G expander, ARC1680 ...., ARC1880/8040 ....
- ARC1880/8040:change STACK_SIZE_LOW to avoid problem when LCD panel or VT100 operate HDD fucntion
- ARC1880/8040:Add LCD initialization strings (test SDRAM ...)
- LCD panel:remove checking of MAX 3 hot spare
- CheckMigratingX:added for migration failed but migration status is inconsistent
- Remove inconsistent fail flag for raid6 migration
- Improve checking of spurious SCB/IO, move the check to LinkErrorDevHandle
- Fix removing of failed HDD hang the system
- ARC1880/8040:Fix LSI6G PLI implementation of Start/StopUnit and SATA passthrough problem
- SUPPORT_CHANGE_CAPACITY:after volume capacity is expanded, return check condition with CAPACITY DATA Changed
- ARC1880/8040:RaidInitZero may break, because raid may be freed before init routine to complete
- During volume check of RAID4/5/6, hot removing of entire raidset will cause raidNumberOfDevices to 0, and checking routine will hang
- Fix when expasion raidset and target disk failed, after migration pasued and controller restarted, the migration halted
- Add DISK_WRITE_CACHE_SETTING for models without BBU to control disk write cache mode
- Fix race condition for cache line allocation
- Fix SAS/SAS2 model's SPC3 compliance
- Add ThreadDelayMs to improve GUI speed of PCI host adapter
- Tune ARC1880 performance
- Fix ARC1880:1st level attached device's RED LED not on if device removed
- Enclosure.c:Add space between E%d and %s
- ARC1880:fix zoning problem
- ARC1880/1680:Add 6G expander zoning support
- Fix TEST_ZONING with log
- Fix enclousre power off with raidset is initializing or rebuilding...
- ARC1880:modify geteon delay stepping,
- Add support for mail greet pause, use different tcp_send timeout value
- Fix raidset activate problem for rebuilding percentage
- Add display of Error Recovery Control Status of SATA hdd
- Modify pure SATA's NEW_83782D_HWMON SNMP
- Patch ARC1880 bootcode for PLI Phase6/7
- Add CheckEesaBlackList to exclude some HDD with error recovery control problem
- Add SUPPORT for ARC1880IXL-8
- ARC1880:fix return from BBM with 4G sdram
- Fix when many volumes is created for RAID6 and failed two drive, some volume may still NEED_REBUILD and REBUILDING
- Fix SAS devices add/remove routine is invoked before SasDeviceInit is called
- Add support for ARC1880LP
- Modify GetResource and PostResource
- Fix write through problem for IOP348 based HBA
- (0) ARC1680/1212/1682/SPT1680/WTN1212
- (A) Only ARC1680 reveal the problem
- (B) The problme occurred if SUPPORT_PERSISTENT_RESERVE is defined
- (C) The problem is the STACK overflow if write through
- (D) Change stack size for All IOP348 models
- Fix reportlun command to exclude FAILED and FOREGROUND init volume
- ARC1680:Add LARGE_DEV_LBA support
- SAS2 target mode:ARC8040/8066/8366
- Fix MRVL5182 based more than 2TB hdd support
- ARC1682:Add over 2TB hdd support
- ARC1680:remove VerifyDrive to support seagate SED drive
- Add NO_UPS_STATUS for enclosure.c to remove ENC without UPS status
- Patch supermicro SES problem, unsupported power state report value 6
- Add rename raidset name support
- Port ARC1880 subsystem
- Add NEW_MAIL_ALERT_CONFIG to support different mail alert config for different mail account
- V1.49 20101202 - All PCI/E HBA models (except 1880)
- V1.49 20101210 - ARC1880