LSI 2004 SAS Controller BIOS and Firmware Update for Lenovo x440 Compute Node



LSI 2004 SAS Controller BIOS and Firmware Update for 
Lenovo System x440 Compute Node

System Supported:  Lenovo System x440 Compute Node (2590, 7167)

NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A

Version 1.20.06
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware         UEFI Driver
  07.39.00.00   20.00.05.00      07.27.04.00

Fixes:
- Fixed SMP passthrough command failure due to smp back off interrupt. 
  Appears in system log as 0x311c0030. (SCGCQ00889925)
- Fixed issue where host boot fails in the presence of blank flash/corrupt 
  firmware in flash (SCGCQ00894439)
- Fixed issue where SATA drive errors, bad performance, or boot failure may 
  appear after update to 20.00.02.00 firmware(SCGCQ00859226)(Retain Tip# H015210)
- Fixed an issue seen with RAID 10 array where during a warm OS boot, drive 
  models with a long spin up delay may get marked as failed for being 
  unresponsive. Delay ultimately triggers a rebuild of the array.(SCGCQ00836017)  
        
Version 1.20.04 
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware         UEFI Driver
  07.39.00.00   20.00.02.00      07.27.04.00

Enhancements:
- Added System X agentless support
- Indicate support for the ATA Device Server Password security protocol 
 (SCGCQ00465302)
- Allow UEFI and BIOS to be Enabled/Disabled individually (SCGCQ00574358)
- Added ConnectorName and EnclosureLevel fields to SAS Device Page 0 to
  help identify physical location of a target device (SCGCQ00523879)
- Set SATA HOLD threshold to be configurable in NVDATA (SCGCQ00712525)
- If HW can gets into a stuck state, clear that state upon break received.
  (SCGCQ00631031)
- Added a new HII option to disable legacy BIOS (SCGCQ00568594)
- The sector size of drives with 4096 bytes physical sector size and 512 bytes 
  logical sector size will be displayed as 512e.(SCGCQ00568598)


Fixes:
- Changed PCI Subsystem Vendor ID written to SBR from IBM to Lenovo value.
- Set SAS drives to track bad blocks using a bad block table rather than
  using a SCSI Write Long.
- Fixed DMAGroup performance issue.(SCGCQ00632433)
- Fixed issue with Phase 18 IR FW where booting a RAID volume (such as raid 10),
  hangs at OROM "Initializing.." and fault 8803 seen. (SCGCQ00641950)
- Fixed issue where Report Luns command to a SATA drive fails with
  CheckCondition/Invalid Field in CDB when allocation length set to Zero.
  (SCGCQ00615518)
- Fixed issue where Raid Accelerator IOs can hang if the stream of IOs
  suddenly stops. (SCGCQ00599997)
- Fixed issue where an invalid frame sent during a PIO-mode SATA
  passthrough command results in resetting the drive. (SCGCQ00600001)
  
- Fixed issue where lots of NCQ I/O error messages were reported.
  Appear as: "mpt2sas0: log_info(0x31080000)" (SCGCQ00802848)
- Fixed issue where if certain PCIe timeouts occur in the presence of Link
  Unavailable, a hang condition or data corruption can occur.(SCGCQ00787001)
- Fixed issue where system hangs after adapter reset with heavy IO load. 
  (SCGCQ00681098)
- Fixed issue where access to Last Logical Block Address (LBA) of SATA drive 
  is Prevented and LBA out Of range by one block is missed. (SCGCQ00747711)
- Made change to deal with link getting stuck and causing missing drives.
  (difficult to reproduce)(SCGCQ00747288)
- Fixed IR issue where page header information is not filled in when RAID
  PHYS DISK PAGE 0 is returned for a non-RAID Disk drive. (SCGCQ00756932)
- Fixed issue where controller hits 0x265d fault while creating volume
  when there is an inactive volume.(SCGCQ00733218)
- DID_SOFT_ERRORs are seen when hot plug is performed on the RAID1 volume
  along with IOs.(SCGCQ00733219) 
- Fixed issue where system gets hung and reboots while running IO's along with 
  diag reset on the Controller which has active and inactive volumes.
  (SCGCQ00733220)
- Fixed latency spikes seen during performance testing (SCGCQ00736663)
- MPI 2.5: distribute target command buffers received across multiple
  reply queues. (SCGCQ00685820)
- Fixed issue where command sas2flash -dflash results in a non-functional
  system. (SCGCQ00557354)
- Fixed issue where internal device reset storm occurs after controller reset
  using long CDB. (SCGCQ00643892)
- Fixed 0x6003 fault due to task management of lost IO (SCGCQ00677741)
- Fixed 0x58A1 fault occuring on partner controller while issuing MUR to a
  target mode controller with outstanding IOs. (SCGCQ00681099)
- Fixed issue where IO error occured when hot plug a HDD from RAID1 
  (SCGCQ00697505) 
- Fixed issue where fault 8901 is seen when the volume is roamed.(SCGCQ00726300)

BIOS
- Fixed issue where Legacy BIOS failed to detect certain large capacity SAS drives
 (SCGCQ00696485)
- Fixed issue where system boot hangs when Legacy BIOS is disabled (using HII) 
  on certain UEFI systems. (SCGCQ00643917)
- Fixed issue where drives that use Descriptor Sense Data were returning format 
  complete immediately even though format still in progress. (SCGCQ00630498)

UEFI
- Fixed issue with RAID1E in HII where drive selection for 4th drive is not getting 
  disabled when using check all option (SCGCQ00582185)

Version 1.18.01 - Initial release
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Contains:
  BIOS        Firmware    UEFI Driver
  7.35.01.00  18.00.00.00  7.25.04.01