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MSA1000 Firmware 4.48 Release Notes

Future controllers will have alternate memory components that are functionally identical to

existing components but will require firmware version 4.48. All MSA1000 with redundant

controllers require matching firmware versions, therefore an upgrade to 4.48 is required.

Performance has been enhanced.

All MSA1000 supported operating systems are now supported with this firmware release,

including HP-UX.

The HP-UX auto-negotiate 1GB/2GB issue has been fixed.

Fixes and new functionality since firmware version 4.24:

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Fixes an issue with Third Party Process Log Out that could result in a Microsoft Windows

cluster node not being able to take ownership of a clustered disk device during a cluster

failover

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Fixes an issue with the MSA1000 accepting the Forced Unit Access bit from some database

applications which caused read/write requests to bypass cache and caused poor performance

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Fixes an issue where the MSA1000 array controller could get a ‘Critical Lockup F112h’

when inserting new disk drives or migrating disk drive from non smart array based SCSI

controllers

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Improves I/O performance in environments which consist mainly of small block sequential

I/O transfers

Fixes and new functionality since firmware version 2.38:

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Adds combined support for Windows/Netware/Linux/OpenVMS/True64 UNIX with the

same version of firmware

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Increases performance over version 2.38 and 3.36 versions of firmware

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Adds support for SUSE SLES 8, United Linux 1.0, and NetWare 6.5

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Adds support for FCA2214/2214DC and FCA2404/2404DC in Windows environments

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Adds compatibility support for the next generation U320 drive enclosures, including:

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HP StorageWorks Enclosure Model MSA30 single bus (4414) 302969-B21

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HP StorageWorks Enclosure Model MSA30 dual bus (4454) 302970-B21

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Adds support for Secure Path 64-bit Windows on Itanium-2 based Integrity servers

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Drive rebuild and expand priorities can now be dynamically changed during a rebuild or

expand job

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Adds firmware foundation for rolling firmware upgrades. Rolling firmware upgrades will be

possible with the next revision of MSA1000 firmware

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Support for StorageWorks Secure Path 4.0c for Windows

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Fixes an issue found with SQL Server 2000 in which SQL may report the use of stale cache

data under the following conditions:

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Extremely heavy I/O load

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Some percentage of MSA controller cache allocated to READ

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Multiple small simultaneous writes to the same SCSI blocks

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Write cache is full at the time of the request

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If all of the above criteria are met, SQL may report error ID’s 605, 644, and 823 when

performing subsequent reads from the same SCSI blocks.