BIOS/FW/UEFI Update for N2200 Series SAS/SATA HBA Controllers for Linux

Change History

BIOS/FW/UEFI Update for N2200 Series SASC/SATA HBA Controllers

Controller Supported:   N2215 SAS/SATA HBA (47C8676)
                        N2225 SAS/SATA HBA (00AE912)
                        N2226 SAS/SATA HBA (00AE916)


NOTE TO SERVICE - Reference RETAIN #N/A

Version 16.00.04.00 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.37.00.00   16.00.04.00   18.00.00.00
IR/IT (MPT3) ¨C Ph 16 (new)

Defects:
- With write cache enabled Raid0 volume, SYNC_CHACHE not sent during shutdown.(SCGCQ01399780)
- IOP: 0x265D Fault Observed on Cold Boot of Customer Server with Misconfigured Controller NVDATA.(SCGCQ01473138)
- PL SATL: SCSI Write Buffer Mode 7 Command Incorrectly Failed by Firmware.(SCGCQ01498114)
- Fixed code to avoid potential infinite while loop, found during code review.(SCGCQ01524256)
- PL: ChassisSlotNum field in expander details should be 7 bits.(SCGCQ01533259)
- Fixed IOP Coverity defect on invader.(SCGCQ01508920)
- Volume drives go missing after issuing target reset.(SCGCQ01539637)
- PL: Implemented HW workaround to solve 6G SATA link fail problem.(SCGCQ01540037)
- Redundant null check for length.(SCGCQ01598540)
-.(SCGCQ00941854)
- SATA: Block device log pages does not free the Raw frames.(SCGCQ01373403)
- PL: Fixed SMR Drive: Fault 0xd102 encountered when Sanitize command with Overwrite method issued.(SCGCQ01562039)
- PL: Avoid Duplicate Mid Workaround Does Not Start a TM If Device is Removed and Re-Added.(SCGCQ01715677)
- PL Enclosure Management: 0x7C41 or 0x265E Fault During Bootup of Customer System.(SCGCQ01792419)
- [MCTP] Invalidate the incoming MCTP packet if packet sequence count out of range.(SCGCQ01793093)
- SATA ONLY: VPD page 0xB2 LBPU bit not set correctly.(SCGCQ01374552)
- Race condition can allow IOs over OOB to removed drive, with no host IOs, to not be cleaned up, and possibly leading to new drives not
showing up.(SCGCQ01400110)
- PL: Revised "Avoid Duplicate Mid" Feature Code Could Incorrectly Allow IO to Start Through PL Firmware Path.(SCGCQ01520524)
- PL MR build is failing in Invdr_Main.(SCGCQ01524943)
- Redundant status check.(SCGCQ01598520)
- PL Enclosure Management: Vendor Specific Fields in Enclosure Page 0 Sometimes Incorrect.(SCGCQ01876881)
- After importing PI R1 VD from 1st IR controller to 2nd IR controller, VD becomes non PI.(SCGCQ01579303)
- Possible use of uninitialized enclosure slot index variable.(SCGCQ01598517)
- Comparison redundant as result remains constant.(SCGCQ01598542)
- Limit printing a SGL chain to only 15 elements.(SCGCQ01180961)
- PL: Change nvdata bits for avoid duplicate mid feature to Mfg 17 Flags bits 12:11.(SCGCQ01414932)
- Convert to offical OEMRD MPI2 definitions.(SCGCQ01562102)
- PL: Port Glitch on Direct Attached SATA drives,lead IO stop/File system become read only.(SCGCQ01572062)
- PL: (SATA only) After FORMAT Operation, WRITE POINTER LBA is Not set to ZONE START LBA When Issued REPORT ZONES Command.(SCGCQ01749157)
-.(SCGCQ01247190)
- IOP: MCTP: FW Download over MCTP PCIe VDM sometimes sees the checksum of the image fail.(SCGCQ01254734 port of SCGCQ01241620)
- SATA Only : 48bit ATA pass through command with lower nibble of LBA(47:40) field set to a value 2 times out.(SCGCQ01346819 port of SCGCQ01339000)
- PL: RETURNED LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS in READ CAPACITY (16) is unexpectedly zero.(SCGCQ01382503 port of SCGCQ01366977)
- MCTP I2C: I2C communication is lost between BMC and controller.(SCGCQ01389164 port of SCGCQ01385782)
- Cutlass card is not detecting in SLOOB.(SCGCQ01392028 port of SCGCQ01316544)
- SATA ONLY: VPD page 0xB2 LBPU bit not set correctly.(SCGCQ01398983 port of SCGCQ01374552)
- With write cache enabled Raid0 volume, SYNC_CHACHE not sent during shutdown.(SCGCQ01438984 port of SCGCQ01399780)
- SATA: Report Zone for very large data of 4MB takes ~2 seconds for processing.(SCGCQ01507944 port of SCGCQ01502700)
- Controller issues 'BREAK' if expander returns 'OPEN_REJECT(RETRY)' for 111ms.(SCGCQ01521143 port of SCGCQ01387414)
- Commands after an ATA Passthrough ReadFPDMA queued command hang.(SCGCQ01521430 port of SCGCQ01254357)
- Untimed busy wait during small data transfers.(SCGCQ01521447 port of SCGCQ01233445)
- pl: Mode Select translation transfer length validation.(SCGCQ01521470 port of SCGCQ01435884)
- pl: FPE timer may be activated for an IO that is being aborted.(SCGCQ01521534 port of SCGCQ01249183)
- pl: excessive exception generation during SATA IOs with Task Set Full handling disabled.(SCGCQ01522496 port of SCGCQ01291127)
- (SATA Only) LBPRZ bit in VPD page 0xB2 is never set for SATA devices.(SCGCQ01531147 port of SCGCQ01516277)
- PL: Possible null pointer access in a non-automated SATA Response Frame.(SCGCQ01531590 port of SCGCQ01168086)
- Incorrect Component ID definitions of CubR 35x24 and 35x28.(SCGCQ01531601 port of SCGCQ01350510)
- Fault(0x4330) is occurred during checking MPI2_IOCSTATUS_TARGET_TOO_MUCH_WRITE_DATA.(SCGCQ01533438 port of SCGCQ01518952)
- PL Fault 0000d073 LR 7f86abb5 during drive clear operation.(SCGCQ01534863 port of SCGCQ01368862)
- Ventura B0: FW blocking SATA devices behind enclosures.(SCGCQ01556433 port of SCGCQ01552996)
- MCTP: Information Changed bit is not tied to Raid and Topology Change Events.(SCGCQ01587779 port of SCGCQ01132430)
- (SATA Only) Function field in MPI error reply message for SCSI ATA Pass-through request is not correct.(SCGCQ01668688 port of SCGCQ01638248)
- PL: (SATA only) Proper Sense key not set to failed read/write command while handling NCQ error.(SCGCQ01801163 port of SCGCQ01763871)
- Cutlass A1: 0x681E fault while doing Cable breaking on I/T Switching.(SCGCQ00907377 port of SCGCQ00902077)
- PL: Sending nonstop ATA Passthrough followed by unsupported SCSI commands rapidly to SATA device can cause a Call Stack Overflow.(SCGCQ01343615 port of SCGCQ01314465)
- (IOP-Only) Vary Number of Resource Frames Based Upon Input Parameters.(SCGCQ01373413 port of SCGCQ00498642)
- pl: delay loop may have twice the expected duration.(SCGCQ01390848 port of SCGCQ01192571)
- PL: Add Code to Correctly Determine Mid for Rx Context Non-automated Interrupts.(SCGCQ01479501 port of SCGCQ01472512)
- SATL: Security Protocol Erase fails in SATL, but works well with ATA PT.(SCGCQ01489492 port of SCGCQ01479409)
- Fault 0x670B seen while sending SCSI Read Buffer commands to bunch of SATA drives.(SCGCQ01507485 port of SCGCQ01163838)
- (SATA Only) Fault 4203 while running SCSI unmap and TM to a SATA drive.(SCGCQ01507992 port of SCGCQ01287926)
- Uninitialized scalar variable usage.(SCGCQ01512607 port of SCGCQ01088281)
- Internal Task Management operations not completing in out of resource conditions.(SCGCQ01521292 port of SCGCQ01415544)
- PL: Error LED stays on when drive is pulled out when using unusual slot mapping and drive presence check.(SCGCQ01521672 port of SCGCQ01157331)
- ATA Passthrough MPT frame content has overwritten.(SCGCQ01524151 port of SCGCQ01339127)
- (SATA Only) IOC Status returned as busy for SCSI IO that fail due to affiliation conflict.(SCGCQ01525540 port of SCGCQ01317046)
- Corrected PORTERR debug print parameter size.(SCGCQ01531612 port of SCGCQ01329812)
- The "pl reg" command dumps the wrong amount of data for some structures.(SCGCQ01533243 port of SCGCQ01474266)
- Fault 0xC00C is occurred in random read running test.(SCGCQ01533437 port of SCGCQ01511237)
- Fault 5850 occurred in random read test with Task management.(SCGCQ01538705 port of SCGCQ01538680)
- pl: verify that RAID context Timeout value is nonzero before adding a timer.(SCGCQ01566858 port of SCGCQ01564757)
- Added new DivertedIo flag to IoFlags parameter of pliStartScsiIo, when set PL submits IO to FPE directly.(SCGCQ01593254 port of SCGCQ01581333)
- PL: (SATA Only)SSU Command for active power condition transition on EPC enabled drive fails with Additional sense Logical block address out of range.(SCGCQ01640922 port of SCGCQ01640762)
- Ventura A0: Fault 0x1500 on Ventura A0 with tip code.(SCGCQ01165872 port of SCGCQ01165688)
- PL: IO latency in multi path topology during one of the path disconnection.(SCGCQ01232357 port of SCGCQ01157345)
- Reduce the number of Target Resets started when a missing device returns.(SCGCQ01351461 port of SCGCQ01205601)
- PL: RETURNED LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS in READ CAPACITY (16) is unexpectedly zero.(SCGCQ01384622 port of SCGCQ01366977)
- MCTP I2C: I2C traces shows partial response/zero out packet response from the HBA.(SCGCQ01421229 port of SCGCQ01394463)
- SATL: Security Protocol Erase fails in SATL, but works well with ATA PT.(SCGCQ01509261 port of SCGCQ01479409)
- Storlib observed ERROR_MCTP_PAYLOADID_PE_INVALID_PARAM while doing attn-btn test.(SCGCQ01513292 port of SCGCQ01423338)
- PL: 0x4300 fault when running Cable Breaker port break between expanders.(SCGCQ01531589 port of SCGCQ00941569)
- PL: More than one ATA command at a time may be submitted to a SATA device.(SCGCQ01531627 port of SCGCQ01377242)
- SATA only drives getting removed when running SATA Passthorugh with incorrect data length along with IOs.(SCGCQ01538413 port of SCGCQ01329382)
- IT/PL FW Compliance to use of NO FLUSH bit in START STOP UNIT based on SAT3.(SCGCQ01567188 port of SCGCQ01563244)
- PL Enclosure Management: SEP Blink Request Fails After Path 1 Disconnect in Multipath Topology.(SCGCQ01619019 port of SCGCQ01618625)
- PL: Specific Print in PL Task Management Code is Causing Increased Recovery Time From Port Disconnect.(SCGCQ01232195 port of SCGCQ01231710)
- Reduce the number of Target Resets started when a missing device returns.(SCGCQ01351467 port of SCGCQ01205601)
- SATA: Block device log pages does not free the Raw frames.(SCGCQ01373411 port of SCGCQ01373403)
- SATA Only : 48bit ATA pass through command with lower nibble of LBA(47:40) field set to a value 2 times out.(SCGCQ01373493 port of SCGCQ01339000)
- PL: Implement support for SAS Device Discovery Error Event.(SCGCQ01423219 port of SCGCQ01233843)
- IO timeouts and controller firmware unresponsive.(SCGCQ01470843 port of SCGCQ01295797)
- Fixing coverty defects 19848 & 19838.(SCGCQ01508185 port of SCGCQ01504066)
- Exception Stack Frame: FE705FC0" observed during OS boot.(SCGCQ01521154 port of SCGCQ01399366)
- The Avoid Duplicate Mid feature does not activate properly for expander attached SATA devices.(SCGCQ01521278 port of SCGCQ01405083)
- PL: SATA: Sense Key/Additional Sense code incorrectly set when open zone issued on a Security locked SMR drive.(SCGCQ01523130 port of SCGCQ01478037)
- SATA SMR Only : Change for the FORMAT UNIT translation for SMR drives to also call RESET WRITE POINTER with ALL bit set.(SCGCQ01539325 port of SCGCQ01218300)
- (SATA only) Self-test offline immediate status received from drive is not populated to SCSI log sense command.(SCGCQ01682927 port of SCGCQ01681441)
- Data NAK of large master TX packet can stop I2C out of band.(SCGCQ01714694 port of SCGCQ01713685)
- Cutlass A1: 0xC002 fault while doing Cable breaking on I/T Switching.(SCGCQ00907366 port of SCGCQ00904531)
- PL Discovery: After Port Down, Expander Is Not Removed and Firmware Retries SMP Indefinitely.(SCGCQ01312486 port of SCGCQ01295414)
- PL: 0x4A00 Fault With Heavy IO on Customer Setup.(SCGCQ01368794 port of SCGCQ01259804)
- IOP: MCTP: Cannot boot and discover controller with PCIe VDM and Bus Master Enable not set.(SCGCQ01511585 port of SCGCQ01107260)
- Wrong sizeof argument usage and Condition check evaluates to TRUE always.(SCGCQ01512606 port of SCGCQ01088276)
- During large topology cable break testing. Task Managements may time out due to an accumulation of time starting these TMs for many devices.(SCGCQ01521397 port of SCGCQ01398213)
- Unable to do sas3flash -dflash 8MB IR FW image to 9310-8i card from IR Phase 15 (Phase 14 and 13 IR Firmware work, IT Firmware works).(SCGCQ01525517 port of SCGCQ01504595)
- (SATA Only) Security Protocol In command complete without data transfer for allocation length not a multiple of 512.(SCGCQ01526783 port of SCGCQ01275335)
- (SATA Only) Timer for SCSI Write Verify command to a SATA drive might get removed before command completion.(SCGCQ01622054 port of SCGCQ01593136)
- PL: Sending nonstop ATA Passthrough followed by unsupported SCSI commands rapidly to SATA device can cause a Call Stack Overflow.(SCGCQ01390851 port of SCGCQ01314465)
- PL: Implement support for SAS Device Discovery Error Event.(SCGCQ01421916 port of SCGCQ01233843)
- Ventura B0: Fault 0x510B while doing reboot test along with IOs & TMs.(SCGCQ01521140 port of SCGCQ01440764)
- Task Management due to SATA init failure results in resource error message.(SCGCQ01623880 port of SCGCQ01605610)
- When spinup delay in expander is configured to a high value it might result in some drives being reset by controller repeatedly.(SCGCQ01633734 port of SCGCQ01601413)
- Cutlass card is not detecting in SLOOB.(SCGCQ01334109 port of SCGCQ01316544)
- MCTP I2C: I2C communication is lost between BMC and controller.(SCGCQ01506036 port of SCGCQ01385782)
- PL: SAS Wide Max Queue depth not error checking correctly.(SCGCQ01512330 port of SCGCQ00898573)
- Failure to read correct data from SPD EEPROM.(SCGCQ01523573 port of SCGCQ01358941)
- Ventura: Enclosure Mgmt optimizations and enhancements.(SCGCQ01686033 port of SCGCQ01328437)
- (IOP-Only) Vary Number of Resource Frames Based Upon Input Parameters.(SCGCQ01373415 port of SCGCQ00498642)
- IOP: I2C MCTP: Slave response mode fails to return response to I2C read.(SCGCQ01508068 port of SCGCQ01506883)
- Gen2:IR:Phase 14: Fault 8701 hit when a SATA RAID1 Volume roamed to the other port of Controller.(SCGCQ01574588 port of SCGCQ00269969)

EnhancementRequests (17)
- MPI 2.6: Device side PCIe SRNS flag.(SCGCQ01276256)
- MPI 2.6: Add new firmware download type (CPLD IMAGE).(SCGCQ01305760)
- MPI 2.6: add NVMe SGL Data Block descriptor alignment flag.(SCGCQ01339864)
- MPI 2.6: Add Aero PCI Device IDs.(SCGCQ01373008)
- PL: LUN Reset Option for Avoid Duplicate Mid Feature.(SCGCQ01399068)
- MPI 2.6: Add ControllerResetTO to PCIe Device Page 2.(SCGCQ01416498)
- MPI 2.6: Add new reason code to PCIE Device Status Change Event.(SCGCQ01416515)
- PL: Change avoid duplicate mid LUN reset option to abort task set.(SCGCQ01429655)
- MPI 2.6: PCIe Device Page 2 reporting Namespace Optimal IO Boundary(NOIOB) for NVMe devices.(SCGCQ01449138)
- IOP: Provided NVDATA support to enable/disable PCIe ECRC capability.(SCGCQ01503520)
- IOP: FW to clear all pending PCI interrupts during a Function Level Reset (FLR).(SCGCQ01523541)
- MPI 2.5: Add OEMRD field to SAS Enclosure Page 0.(SCGCQ01553021)
- MPI 2.5: Add MaxEnclosureLevel field to BIOS Page 1.(SCGCQ01570730)
- Collect enclosure Bay ID from OEM specificinternal backplanes.(SCGCQ01503517)
- PL: Change to Customer Specific SMP Response Report Manufacturer.(SCGCQ01505468)
- PL: IT Nexus Reset Option for Avoid Duplicate Mid Feature.(SCGCQ01362788)
- Increase the default SES buffer size to 2K.(SCGCQ01506013)

  
Version 1.15-7 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.35.04.00   15.00.02.00   17.00.04.00

code don't have any change.

Version 1.15 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.35.04.00   15.00.02.00   17.00.04.00
  
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where HDD locate LED on D3284 don't blink with N2226/N2225.
- SUT hang when click start /locate for PD in UEFI or click SAS Topology in legacy option rom w/D3284 (Bug 122486)
- D3284 HDD LED is not alight when set locate LED as "on" with N2225 under UEFI (Bug 122471)


Version 1.13 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.31.02.00   13.00.02.00   15.00.02.00

Firmware
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where Power On Reset Observed While Executing LOG SENSE Command to SATA Drive. (SCGCQ01081163)
- Fixed issue where PL Fault 4203 observed while executing REPORT ZONES SCSI Command to SATA Drives. (SCGCQ01094926)
- Fixed issue where unsupported Log Sense commands fail with 'INVALID COMMAND OPERATION CODE' instead of 'INVALID FIELD IN CDB' - SATA only (SCGCQ01079905)
- Fixed issue where SANITIZE Command is Not Failed With Expected Sense Data for Service Action EXIT FAILURE MODE - SATA only (SCGCQ01115136)
- Fixed issue where Unable to un-register a device because of outstanding Task Set Full MID (SCGCQ01112415, Port of SCGCQ01076294)
- Fixed issue where Fast back-to-back or parallel PCIe configuration requests after certain addresses can generate bad Config Read data resulting in 0x2622 fault (SCGCQ01062410, Port of SCGCQ01047773)
- Fixed issue where I/O could timeout if task management fails (SCGCQ01131412, Port of SCGCQ01113324)
- Fixed issue where Fault 0x265D encountered on inserting a faulty drive in place of RAID 1 member (SCGCQ01149263, Port of SCGCQ01096884)
- Fixed issue where PL fault 5854 seen when system boots with all SATA drives in setup in spun down mode (SCGCQ01204852, Port of SCGCQ01155407)
- Fixed issue where OS failed to boot after hot-plug on the RAID 1 member. (SCGCQ01163158, Port of SCGCQ01084723)
- Fixed issue where Storlib/storlibtest stuck on a bad drive while retrieving phyinfo (SCGCQ01180929, Port of SCGCQ01171835)
- Fixed issue where outstanding SATA passthorugh IO can cause target reset from timer callback check if sata Initialization not done yet (SCGCQ01205281, Port of SCGCQ01172334)
- Fixed issue where 'iop show cfg all' command is not listing all Expander's config pages (SCGCQ01118587, Port of SCGCQ01110070)
- Fixed issue where CPU hangs due to out of bound access of Timer wheel RAM while manually adding FPE timer. (SCGCQ01090984, Port of SCGCQ01089094)
- Fixed issue where drive timeout occurs with large number of drives attached  (SCGCQ01145424, Port of SCGCQ01118894)
- Fixed issue where while running stress, controller crashes with 0x584A fault (SCGCQ01064158, Port of SCGCQ01041762)

Enhancements:
- Modified the code to check the LBA OUT OF RANGE condition greater than the last LBA. (SCGCQ01113946)
- Assign the enclosure level index for direct attached enclosures ie., the controller itself. (SCGCQ01057508)

BIOS:
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where PCI Info field missing in legacy BIOS config utility(SCGCQ01092124)
- Fixed issue where command timeout not handled properly (SCGCQ01099923)
- Fixed issue where BIOS config utility is hung while deleting a missing volume. (SCGCQ01113664)
- Fixed issue where BIOS config utility fails to read configuration pages when large topology is connected. (SCGCQ01190203)
- Fixed issue where Connecting a Faulty drive to the controller results in BIOS config utility crash (SCGCQ01191180)
- Fixed issue where Legacy BIOS stuck in infinite loop when a faulty drive is connected with the controller. (SCGCQ01091176)
- Fixed issue where Start Stop Unit (SSU) command loads cartridge of a sequential media while booting. (SCGCQ01093694)
- Fixed issue where Legacy BIOS stuck in infinite loop when a faulty drive is connected with the controller. (SCGCQ01095670, Port of SCGCQ01091176)

Enhancements:
- Device Properties screen to display Connector Name, enclosure Level and Slot values of a device. (SCGCQ01072668)

UEFI:
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where in HII, device properties may have duplicate device identifiers. (SCGCQ01112383)


Version 1.12 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
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Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.29.02.00   12.00.02.00   14.00.00.00

Firmware
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Raid creation is failed when tried to create a RAID using SATA drives. (SCGCQ00998155)
- Fixed an issue where any pure SEP devices (i.e. not marked as an SSP Target) are not exposed to the management controller through the MCTP Inventory command. (SCGCQ00943216)
- Fixed an issue where Fault 0xD102 occurred while executing Write Buffer SCSI Command to SATA Drives (SCGCQ00953463)
- Fixed an issue where a debug print was trying to access the address of variable type and causing core exception in IOPs that use PLI_CTRL_REQ_SET_SINGLE_DUAL_CONTEXT_TXDMA. (SCGCQ01004146 port of SCGCQ01004143)
- Fixed an issue where 265D fault observed when "IOP show cfg all" executed from UART with BIOS flashed (SCGCQ01025868)
- Fixed an issue where spun down SATA drive showed up as non NCQ drive after initialization. (SCGCQ00999741, SCGCQ01005428 Port of SCGCQ00999741)
- Fixed an issue where I/O timeout could occur when running auto read/write I/Os and non-auto read/write I/Os through FPE, especially when the I/Os were single threaded.  (SCGCQ01023261 Port of SCGCQ01022368)
- Fixed an issue where RAID creation failed with SATA drives. (SCGCQ01024544)
- Fixed an issue where attaching a SATA drive that sends an invalid/unsupported initial FIS signature directly to a controller phy resulted in that phy getting reset by the firmware until the drive was removed.SCGCQ00872060
- Fixed an issue where some “packet exception busy retry” responses have a bad CRC value in the CRC field. This only impacts MCTP over I2C when in slave response mode, SCSI IOs out to drives, and drives that were removed. (SCGCQ01019763 Port of SCGCQ01019438)
- Fixed an issue where latency observed during controller diag reset operations or during controller boot when two enclosures with mix of SAS/SATA drives are connected. (SCGCQ01001465)
- Fixed an issue where the inquiry command sent via MCTP from the BMC to the controller, in which the controller did not respond with inquiry data after communicating to an I2C attached SCSI enclosure processor based back-plane. SCGCQ00896512
- Fixed an issue where MCTP: I2C slave with high MPI request rate from host and BMC can cause a host request timeout, and , the BMC may experience I2C bus problems until the controller is either reset or times out on the I2C operation. (SCGCQ01087653)
- Fixed an issue where controller was unnecessarily faulting for correctable L2 parity errors. (SCGCQ00976726, SCGCQ00941520 PORT OF SCGCQ00934325)
- Fixed an issue where an extra garbage byte was present at the end of a second I2C packet in a message. This primarily impacts the standard I2C mode, in which the controller is allowed to act as both an I2C master and slave and controls the size of the packet. (SCGCQ00925199, SCGCQ00955069 PORT OF SCGCQ00916929)
- Fixed an issue where firmware panic (code: 0000265D) and ROM BIOS hung could occur for SAS3FW IR raid10 after removing a drive and powering on the HBA controller. (SCGCQ01062417, SCGCQ01061628 Port of SCGCQ01024976)
- Fixed an issue where fault 0xD073 could occur during heavy IO when a timed out IO completed while firmware is handling the timeout. (SCGCQ01064661 Port of SCGCQ01052686)
- Fixed an issue where firmware does not use the IOCInit Timestamp field to fill in the SAS IO Unit Page 16 and SAS Phy Counter Event. (SCGCQ00884836, SCGCQ00955132 Port of SCGCQ00872141)
- Fixed an issue where the standard Port Status Yellow LED GPIO fails to properly turn on and off with link changes. (SCGCQ00917803, SCGCQ00991716 Port of SCGCQ00907921)
- Fixed an issue where PL timer function timestamp print fills ring buffer. (SCGCQ00991772)
- Fixed an issue where build failure occurred if MCTP is enabled and Config trap hardware workaround was disabled (SCGCQ01082977 Port of SCGCQ01075828)
- Fixed an issue where the IOP generated a false reply parity error, which resulted in a 0x1500 fault. (SCGCQ00929813, SCGCQ00955133 Port of SCGCQ00927500)
- Fixed an issue where a SATA error is received while trying to obtain the message ID (MID) in the Rx Context Manager. When this occurs, the MID cannot be validated resulting in a variable being assigned a NULL value, which the firmware then attempted to access and resulted in a 265D fault. (SCGCQ00930637 Port of SCGCQ00928401)
- Fixed an issue where some of the drives under external enclosure are marked as direct attached. (, SCGCQ00933717, SCGCQ00991711 Port of SCGCQ00926285)
- Fixed an issue where target mode controller sometimes would mistakenly return Open Reject (Protocol not supported) for open requests, when the link to connected IT controller is broken repeatedly. (SCGCQ01009227)
- Fixed an issue where initiator/target moved can generate two target add events (SCGCQ00941678, SCGCQ00941521 Port of SCGCQ00934337)
- Fixed an issue where 265D fault observed when "iop show cfg all" executed from UART with BIOS flashed. (SCGCQ01030564)
- Fixed an issue where fast back-to-back or parallel PCIe configuration requests after certain addresses can generate bad Config Read data (SCGCQ01062342, SCGCQ01062409 Port of SCGCQ01047773)
- Fixed an issue where initiator/target moved can result in Initiator missing event but no corresponding Target missing event. (SCGCQ00941666 port of SCGCQ00915308, SCGCQ00955068)


Enhancements:  
- Added a NVDATA option to enable or disable the bandwidth based PL algorithm to set hardware with single or dual context. (SCGCQ00948044, SCGCQ00948045 Port of SCGCQ00942005)
- Modified SCSI IO Reply to include Observed Application Tag, Observed Reference Tag and Observed Guard. (SCGCQ01002367 SCGCQ00988360)
- Discovery due to non responding SATA drive is now timed to last for the amount of seconds configured in NVDATA (SCGCQ00996678)
 - Modified "SAS IO Unit Page 4" to add a new field "SATAHintingTimeout" (SCGCQ00996127)
- Modified SCSI IO Reply to include Observed Application Tag, Observed Reference Tag and Observed Guard. (SCGCQ00988360)
- Added support for PCIe devices to Target Reset Method (SCGCQ00686666)
- Added IOCCapabilities bit to indicate PCIe SRIOV support and added three new fields in IOCFacts reply message to include SGE modifier fields. (SCGCQ00852827)
- Added ConfigurationFlags field to IOC Init message along with definition of bit to enable/disable NVMe SGL format. Added control operations to enable and disable SGL format for a specific NVMe device. Added bit in PCI device page two to indicate current configuration. (SCGCQ00872169)
- Additional added PCIe Enumeration Event EnumerationStatus bit to indicate when there are more devices than resources. (SCGCQ00884740)
- Added support for non-contiguous slot numbers defined in manufacturing page 7. (SCGCQ01000709)
- Return EEDP/DIF error data of the first error frame detected by the hardware during READ in the MPI Reply error message frame (SCGCQ01000193)
- Differentiate between L2 correctable and uncorrectable faults. (SCGCQ00966698, SCGCQ00929811 PORT OF Defect - SCGCQ00929810)
- Enhanced PLI_CTRL_REQ_GET_SATA_HINT_INFO to also provide information of an active SATA Hinting discovery at a given time. (SCGCQ01058123)

BIOS
Fixes:
 - Fixed an issue where BIOS config utility showed Package version field is displayed and PCI Info field is missing. (SCGCQ01092124)
 - Fixed an issue where junk characters were displayed when one of the enclosures was powered off while the config utility cursor is in Manage Volume screen. (SCGCQ01034754 Port of SCGCQ01020187)
 - Fixed an issue where initialization failure of one faulty controller reports IOC Facts failed for successful initialization of good adapter. (SCGCQ01034746 Port of SCGCQ01029556)
 - Fixed an issue where SAS3008 IT/IR adapter installed and a single SAS drive, the INT 13 Function 48H doesn't show physical geometry of the drive, hang with invalid buffer size, and has buffer overrun. (SCGCQ00996538 port of SCGCQ00988924)
 - Fixed an issue where legacy BIOS encountered an infinite loop when a faulty drive was connected with the controller. (SCGCQ01091176)
- Fixed an issue where SplitRom utility for legacy BIOS prints the wrong value for sizeof Frame Buffer (SCGCQ00933107)
- Fixed an issue where incorrect values for cylinders, heads, and sectors were reported on 4K drives. (SCGCQ00987624 Port of SCGCQ00980976)
- Fixed an issue where controller IR firmware is displayed as IT firmware when SAS Address is not programmed. (SCGCQ01034758 Port of SCGCQ01033766)

Enhancements: 
 - Modified SCSI IO Reply to include Observed Application Tag, Observed Reference Tag and Observed Guard. (SCGCQ01002367 SCGCQ00988360)
 - Added a new field "SATAHintingTimeout" to SAS IO Unit page four (SCGCQ00996127)
 - Added support for PCIe devices to Target Reset Method (SCGCQ00686666)
 - Added IOCCapabilities bit to indicate PCIe SRIOV support and added three new fields in IOCFacts reply message to include SGE modifier fields. (SCGCQ00852827)
 - Added ConfigurationFlags field to IOC Init message along with definition of bit to enable/disable NVMe SGL format. Added control operations to enable and disable SGL format for a specific NVMe device. Added bit in PCI device page two to indicate current configuration. (SCGCQ00872169)
 - Additional added PCIe Enumeration Event EnumerationStatus bit  to indicate when there are more devices than resources. (SCGCQ00884740)
 - BIOS config utility topology has been changed to be in consistent with other utilities such as MR config utility. (SCGCQ00850331)


UEFI Driver
Fixes:
 - Fixed an issue where associated physical disk form is not updating with the proper PD missing data. (SCGCQ01010356)
- Fixed an issue where HII Form is displaying question ID mismatch with option value popup while physical disk properties screen is entered. (SCGCQ01008746)

Enhancements:
 - Modified SCSI IO Reply to include Observed Application Tag, Observed Reference Tag and Observed Guard. (SCGCQ01002367 SCGCQ00988360)
 - Added a new field "SATAHintingTimeout" to SAS IO Unit page four (SCGCQ00996127)
 - Added support for PCIe devices to Target Reset Method (SCGCQ00686666)
 - Added IOCCapabilities bit to indicate PCIe SRIOV support and added three new fields in IOCFacts reply message to include SGE modifier fields. (SCGCQ00852827)
 - Added ConfigurationFlags field to IOC Init message along with definition of bit to enable/disable NVMe SGL format. Added control operations to enable and disable SGL format for a specific NVMe device. Added bit in PCI device page two to indicate current configuration. (SCGCQ00872169)
 - Additional added PCIe Enumeration Event EnumerationStatus bit to indicate when there are more devices than resources. (SCGCQ00884740)
 - View physical Disk Properties HII form is modified to be in consistent with other utilities such as BIOS CU. (SCGCQ00850330)
 - Added support on ARM-64 (SCGCQ00976647)
 - Serial number of drive is retrieved from Inquiry command VPD page 80 and displayed as Unit Serial Number (VPD) is device properties screen. (SCGCQ00987903)

Version 1.11.02 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
---------------
Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.27.03.00   11.00.06.00   13.00.00.00

Firmware  11.00.06.00:
Fixes:

- Fixed an issue where in the IOP a false reply parity error is being generated, which results in a 0x1500 fault.  (SCGCQ00929813, Port of SCGCQ00927500)
 - Fixed an issue where some packet exception busy retry responses have a bad CRC value in the CRC field for MCTP over I2C when in slave response mode for SCSI IOs out to drives, and drives that were removed. (SCGCQ01019438)
- Fixed an issue where MCTP I2C slave with high MPI request rate from host and BMC can cause a host request timeout. (SCGCQ01087653)
- Fixed an issue where distinguishing between L2 correctable and uncorrectable faults was difficult, due to a shared fault code of (0x26B4).  (SCGCQ00929811, PORT OF SCGCQ00929810)
- Fixed an issue where I/O timeout could occur when running read/write I/Os (auto) and non-read/write I/Os through FPE, especially when the non-read/write I/Os are single threaded (SCGCQ01023261, Port of SCGCQ01022368)
- Fixed an issue where FW panic (code: 0000265D) and ROM BIOS hung for SAS3FW IR RAID10, while updating state of a volume after power cycle on controller, an operation attempt on non-existing private member variable causes data TLB error. (SCGCQ01061628, Port of SCGCQ01024976)
- Fixed an issue where that FW does not use the IOCInit timestamp field to fill in the SAS IO unit page 16 and SAS Phy counter event (SCGCQ00884836, Port of SCGCQ00872141)
- Fixed an issue where the standard Port Status Yellow LED GPIO fails to properly turn on and off with link changes. (SCGCQ00917803, Port of SCGCQ00907921)
- Fixed an issue where a build failure occurs if MCTP is enabled and config trap hardware workaround is disabled.  (SCGCQ01082977, Port of SCGCQ01075828)
- Fixed an issue where the controller is unnecessarily faulting for correctable L2 parity errors. (SCGCQ00976726, Port of SCGCQ00934325)
- Added a NVDATA option to enable or disable the bandwidth based PL algorithm enhancement, which sets hardware with Single or Dual Context.  (SCGCQ00948044, Port of SCGCQ00942005)
- Fixed an issue where spun down SATA drives show up as non NCQ drives after initialization.  (SCGCQ01005428, Port of SCGCQ00999741)
- Fixed an issue where 265D fault observed when "iop show cfg all" executed from UART with BIOS flashed.  (SCGCQ01030564, Port of SCGCQ01025868)
- Fixed an issue where very fast back-to-back or parallel reads of the PCIe Configuration Space after or during the firmware handled addresses can cause the data firmware is writing to be picked up by the next configuration read, when firmware has to write to its Configuration Space.  (SCGCQ01062409, Port of SCGCQ01047773)
- Fixed an issue where there is an extra garbage byte at the end of a second I2C packet in a message. This primarily impacts the standard I2C mode. (SCGCQ00925199, Port of SCGCQ00916929)
- Fixed an issue where a target moved can result in Initiator missing event but no corresponding target missing event.  (SCGCQ00941666, Port of SCGCQ00915308)
- Fixed an issue where an initiator/target moved can generate two target add events.  (SCGCQ00941678, Port of SCGCQ00934337)
- Fixed issue where SES diagnostic command may fail with backplane expander. (SCGCQ00991690, Port of SCGCQ00976691)
- Fixed issue where attached edge device frame buffering (EDFB) enabled expander may drop attached drives. (SCGCQ00999909, Port of SCGCQ00897639)
- Fixed issue where drives in external enclosure would be listed as direct attached.  (SCGCQ00933717, Port of SCGCQ00926285)

BIOS 8.27.03.00
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where IOC facts failed error is displayed in CU when one of two controllers is faulty. (SCGCQ01029556)
- Fixed an issue where INT 13 Function 48H doesn't show physical geometry of the drive, hang with invalid buffer size, and has buffer overrun.  (SCGCQ00988924)
- Fixed an issue where the wrong values of cylinders, heads, and sectors reported on a 4K drive.  (SCGCQ00980976)
- Fixed an issue where junk characters are seen when one of the enclosures is powered off while the cursor is in Manage Volume screen.  (SCGCQ01034754)
- Fixed an issue where controller IR firmware is displayed as IT firmware when SAS address is not programmed.  (SCGCQ01034758, Port of SCGCQ01033766)

Version 1.11.01 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
---------------
Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.27.00.00   11.125.00.00   13.00.00.00

Firmware Fixes:
- Fixed issue where invalid or unsupported signature FIS was not validated for 
  expander attached SATA drives (SCGCQ00852290)
- Fixed issue where BUSY TIMEOUT PERIOD Field was incorrectly populated in UCM 
  Control Mode Page for SATA Drive (SCGCQ00871463)
- Fixed issue where during SATA FORMAT Operation, REQUEST SENSE command is not 
  failed with expected response where DESC bit is set (SCGCQ00872727)
- Fixed slot assignment to direct attach SEP Device Handle that previously 
  resulted in slot number out of bounds condition (SCGCQ00894230)
- Fixed issue where locate was not working for a particular slot in the external
  enclosure due to firmware not picking up the correct phy index (SCGCQ00932707)
- Fixed issue where 19th entry of Self-Test Results Log Page was not showing 
  during SAT translation. (SCGCQ00847941)
- Fixed issue where SATA hinting feature causes IO timeouts with slow spin up 
  drives under Linux (SCGCQ00867345)
- Fixed issue where SCSI ATA passthrough code did not check for correct CDB 
  length (SCGCQ00915201)
- Fixed issue where SES command locate fails for first time after discovery when
  slot number information source bit is set (SCGCQ00923283)
- Fixed fault 0x4300 during discovery error recovery testing (SCGCQ00860398)
- Fixed issue where SES locate was not working for external enclosure 
  (SCGCQ00915737)
- Fixed fault d060 observed when running IOs with link_reset Task management 
  command in a loop (SCGCQ00865100, Port of SCGCQ00840603)
- Fixed issue where after cable pull, SAS device page 0 entry device present for
  missing expander after discovery complete 
  (SCGCQ00910603, Port of SCGCQ00904470)
- Fixed PL Fault 0x6002 When Sending SCSI Security Protocol Out Commands to SATA
  SSDs (SCGCQ00910188, Port of SCGCQ00888033)
- Fixed PL Fault 0x5833 When Performing Controller Reboots 
  (SCGCQ00895602, Port of SCGCQ00888103)
- Fixed issue where IOs completed with good status when EEDP Check enabled and 
  EEDP error injected with 4096 block size(SCGCQ00856981, Port of SCGCQ00855669)
- Fixed issue where system hangs after adapter reset with heavy IO load 
  (SCGCQ00877119, Port of SCGCQ00646625)
- Fixed issue where when using a large number of SATA drives, out of resource 
  condition may cause IOs to be pended indefinately 
  (SCGCQ00887685, Port of SCGCQ00885544)
- Fixed issue where SATA SSDs in locked state not showing up after manually 
  loading driver. (SCGCQ00859102, Port of SCGCQ00843668)
- Fixed issue where SSD Marked Failed After Encountering 03/1100 Sense 
  (Medium Error) (SCGCQ00945560, Port of SCGCQ00933048)
- Fixed long I/O latency with large burst of non-auto I/Os generated while other
  read/write I/Os are running (SCGCQ00884667, Port of SCGCQ00884179)
- Fixed issue where fast back-to-back or parallel PCIe configuration requests 
  after certain addresses can generate bad Config Read data 
  (SCGCQ01070088, Port of SCGCQ01047773)
- Fixed PL Fault 0x5814 while handling Task Management during IO Timeout 
  (SCGCQ00860153, Port of SCGCQ00842366)

UEFI Fixes:
- Fixed issue where UEFI/HII offered RAID10 & RAID1E creation even when these 
RAID levels are disabled (SCGCQ00855519)
- Fixed issue where following a system BIOS update, system hangs in HII 'Change 
Controller Properties'. (SCGCQ00907731)
- Fixed issue where the SEP devices are not exposed in Extended SCSI Passthru 
protocol (SCGCQ00907013, Port of SCGCQ00905547)

UEFI Enhancements:
- Use PCI IO Protocol Write function as alternate to Serial IO write function to
  route debug messages to serial port of host system. (SCGCQ00898744)
- Add Logical Block Size of disk to device properties screen in HII. 
  (SCGCQ00886820)
- Eliminate Maximum transfer size limitation of BlockI/O calls in SAS3 IT UEFI 
  (SCGCQ00850298)
- Modify Port and Phy Configuration in UEFI HII to accomodate multiple SAS cores
  and disabled core. (SCGCQ00834025, Port of SCGCQ00802753)
- Added relevant help message for Phy settings. (SCGCQ00869976)

BIOS Fixes:
- Fixed long response delays with config utility navigation response. 
  (SCGCQ00884882)
- Fixed issue where BIOS CU displays "page read error" messages when connected 
  to large topology. (SCGCQ00886786)
- Fixed help text of format tab for 4K SAS drives. 
  (SCGCQ00860653, Port of SCGCQ00834444)
 
BIOS Enhancements:
- Add Logical Block Size of disk to device properties screen. 
  (SCGCQ00898447, Port of SCGCQ00887338) 
- Change Auto-Refresh Interval for BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) 
  Topology Screen (SCGCQ00898423, Port of SCGCQ00887368)


Version 1.09.04 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
---------------
Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.21.06.00   09.00.02.00   10.00.00.00
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where HDD removal not properly reported as Target Device missing 
when attached to adapter through an expander. (SCGCQ00777858)
- Fixed issue where Fault State (0x265d) is observed in driver logs while 
connecting an enclosure with fully populated SATA drives (SCGCQ00856085)
- Fixed issue where 0x7C54 fault seen during I/T switching (SCGCQ00847013)
- Fixed issue where certain drive pull scenarios result in longer time to 
discovery running (~3+ seconds) (SCGCQ00843759)
- Improved PCIe Config operation handling to avoid 0x0D03 faults (SCGCQ00836878) 
- Fixed issue where controller could fault with 0x4A00 during link break 
(SCGCQ00793956)
- Fixed the occurrence of fault 0x1708, when a free MID is attempted to be 
failed to the host. (SCGCQ00826420)
- Fixed occurrence of fault 0x5814/0x5813 while handling Task Management during 
IO Timeout (SCGCQ00865024)
- Fixed issue where SATA drive with slow spin up can cause IO timeout in Linux. 
(SCGCQ00869554) 
- Fixed system hang after adapter reset with heavy IO load (SCGCQ00877099)
- Fixed issue with slow BIOS interface response with certain hardware e
nvironments (SCGCQ00888867)
- Fixed UEFI issue where in an environment with multi-lun devices where lun size
 varies, backup GPT corruption can occur (SCGCQ00907441)

Enhancements:
- In BIOS added a new field to Device Properties called "Logical Sector Size". 
The possible values are 512B, 4K and Unknown. (SCGCQ00887338) 
- Improved the response time in UEFI HII utility for SAS3 IT/IR Controllers 
(SCGCQ00821793)


Version 1.07 -  Moderate Impact/Low Probability of Occurrence
---------------
Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.15.01.00   07.00.01.00   08.00.00.00

  Firmware:
Fixes: 
- Fixed issue where 0xD025 fault appeared while running non-FastPath
  I/O to SATA disk with outstanding FastPath I/Os to SAS disk
  (SCGCQ00604668) 
- Fixed fault 0xD071 while running stress and glitching all 4 phys as
  part of a cable break test.	(SCGCQ00590502) 
- Fixed MPI Power Management Global Request Change to Reduced or Standby
  state results in "Operation State Not Supported" or "IOC Busy"
  (SCGCQ00584284) 
- Fixed issue where when transitioning MPI Power Management speed from
  lower to higher rate the command falsely reported as successful
  (SCGCQ00584288) 
- Fixed issue with mixture of FastPath IO's and standard firmware path
  IO's timing out on SATA disks	(SCGCQ00576190) 
- Fixed SATA only issue where Multiple 'Write Verify' SCSI commands with
  zero data length leads to f/w fault (0x4203 or 0x4C31). (SCGCQ00549293) 	
- Fixed fault 0x6230 while disabling expander phys and running stress in
  multi-path failover environment (SCGCQ00692652) (SCGCQ00699059)  
- Fixed various conditions causing 0x6230 fault when cable breaking
  (SCGCQ00669775) (SCGCQ00699057) (SCGCQ00643835) 
- Fixed issue where rapid successive controller resets would cause HBA to
  stop responding on the PCIe bus (SCGCQ00556766) 
- Fixed issue where when phy power management is enabled, TARGET RESET
  function fails yet command is reported a success. 	(SCGCQ00570820) 
- Fixed issue where PCIe Link Down can cause transmit margin field to not
  reset resulting in PCIe validation tests failing	(SCGCQ00663185) 
- Fixed issue where SCSI command is not failed with expected response when
  SATA drive undergoing a format operation and reserved fields are set as
  Non-Zero value (SCGCQ00679566) 
- Fixed issue where read log ext command wasn't issued by PL FW to recover
  from error during the failure of write verify command	(SCGCQ00675166) 
- Fixed IOC fault state 0x1609 caused by Message Unit Reset
  (SCGCQ00582515) 
- Fixed issue where SAS Phy page 1 and 2 error counters wrap around when
  maximum values are reached. (SCGCQ00651231) 
- Fixed fault 0x265D when running large block IO with higher Qdepth
  (SCGCQ00600832) 
- Fixed issue in Transport Layer Retries Code causing 0x265D and 0x0501
  faults	(SCGCQ00609576)
- Fixed issue where Bad TLB entry causes 0x26B5 fault in IT/IR firmware
  (SCGCQ00629210) 
- Fixed 0x6828 fault when using large CDB	(SCGCQ00614498) 	
- Fixed fault 0x1901 seen when running Unmap IO’s during task aborts for
  a SATA drive	(SCGCQ00711858) 
- Fixed issue where system gets hung & reboot while running IO's along with
  diag reset on the Controller which has Active and Inactive volumes.	
  (SCGCQ00714125) 
- Fixed issue where cards would fault with 58B4 on power up due to incorrect
  SERDES setting	(SCGCQ00728903) 
- Fixed WRITE SAME(10) and WRITE SAME(16) SCSI commands fail on last LBA of
  SATA Drive, incorrectly reporting logical block out of range. (SCGCQ00703433) 
- Fixed fault 0x4203 when WRITE AND VERIFY (16) command us executed to SATA
  Drive for LBA Out of Range (SCGCQ00705320) 
- Fixed issue where ATA Translation of sector count in sense data is
  inconsistent for READ DMA pass-through cmd (SCGCQ00712688) 
- Fixed issue where CLI command to dump L1 data cache causes 0x265D fault
  (SCGCQ00715317) 
- Fixed SATA Init problem causing 0x6230 controller fault
  (SCGCQ00683795) 
- Fixed fault 0x265D hit when booting controller with attached enclosure
  (SCGCQ00709712) 
- Fixed issue where Negotiated Physical Link Rate in SAS IO Unit Page 0 may
  not be correct after pulling a cable	(SCGCQ00696408)	
- Fixed issue in NVDATA where SGPIO PHYs reversed	(SCGCQ00750746) 
- Fixed I2C slave status interrupt not always cleared with I2C Write operation
  (SCGCQ00731646) 
	
Enhancements:
- Improved implementation of SCSI transport layer (SATL) handling while
  the SATA drive is in security 'frozen' state	(SCGCQ00549302) 
- SCSI Transport Layer: Indicate support for the ATA Device Server
  Password security protocol	(SCGCQ00625580) 
- IO Processor Target Mode performance improvements	(SCGCQ00685827) 
	             
  UEFI:     
Fixes:       
- Fixed issue where the navigation of HII screens was very slow when no
  drives are connected to an expander	(SCGCQ00569123) 
- Reduce the boot time for UEFI driver for large configurations.  Fixes
  a falsely reported Backup GPT corruption. (SCGCQ00498101)
  (RETAIN Tip H212119)
- Fixed issue where HII configuration utility did not print the complete
  SAS address	(SCGCQ00709781) 
- Fixed issue where View Physical Disk Properties screen on HII was not
  showing correct disk details (connector:encl:slot) when more than 8
  disks are directly attached.	(SCGCQ00691104) 
	
Enhancements:
- Obtain the Physical Slot number from the PCI Bridge first and use fall
  back to SMBIOS table if unable retrieve slot number from PCI Bridge.
  (SCGCQ00498095) 
- Retry Test Unit Ready command if drive foes not respond on first try.
  (SCGCQ00518198) 
- Adding a small delay (2 seconds) to get proper operation status after
  starting an operation (like consistency check) in HII	(SCGCQ00621480) 
- Enhanced HII configuration utility to display tape drive information
  (SCGCQ00700835) 
	             
  BIOS:     
Fixes:      
- Fixed issue where the system boot hangs when Legacy BIOS is disabled
  (using HII) on certain UEFI systems.	(SCGCQ00637088) 
- Fixed issue where the Legacy BIOS failed to detect certain large
  capacity SAS drives	(SCGCQ00696486) 
	
Enhancements:
- Support configurable timeout for Start Stop Unit Command.
  (SCGCQ00694336) 

Version 1.04.04 -  - Initial release
---------------
Contains:
  BIOS          Firmware      UEFI Driver
  08.07.01.00   03.00.07.00   06.00.01.00