IBM ServeRAID driver Change Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5.00.01 - Sarasota ( 5i ) adapters must always be scanned first - Get rid on IOCTL_NEW_COMMAND code - Add Extended DCDB Commands for Tape Support in 5I 4.90.11 - Don't actually RESET unless it's physically required - Remove unused compile options 4.90.08 - Data Corruption if First Scatter Gather Element is > 64K 4.90.08 - Increase Delays in Flashing ( Trombone Only - 4H ) 4.90.05 - Use New PCI Architecture to facilitate Hot Plug Development 4.90.01 - Add ServeRAID Version Checking 4.80.26 - Clean up potential code problems ( Arjan's recommendations ) 4.80.21 - Change memcpy() to copy_to_user() in NVRAM Page 5 IOCTL path 4.80.20 - Set max_sectors in Scsi_Host structure ( if >= 2.4.7 kernel ) - 5 second delay needed after resetting an i960 adapter 4.80.14 - Take all semaphores off stack - Clean Up New_IOCTL path 4.80.04 - Eliminate calls to strtok() if 2.4.x or greater - Adjustments to Device Queue Depth 4.80.00 - Make ia64 Safe 4.72.01 - I/O Mapped Memory release ( so "insmod ips" does not Fail ) - Don't Issue Internal FFDC Command if there are Active Commands - Close Window for getting too many IOCTL's active 4.72.00 - Allow for a Scatter-Gather Element to exceed MAX_XFER Size 4.71.00 - Change all memory allocations to not use GFP_DMA flag - Code Clean-Up for 2.4.x kernel 4.70.15 - Fix Breakup for very large ( non-SG ) requests 4.70.13 - Don't release HA Lock in ips_next() until SC taken off queue - Unregister SCSI device in ips_release() - Don't Send CDB's if we already know the device is not present 4.70.12 - Corrective actions for bad controller ( during initialization ) 4.70.09 - Use a Common ( Large Buffer ) for Flashing from the JCRM CD - Add IPSSEND Flash Support - Set Sense Data for Unknown SCSI Command - Use Slot Number from NVRAM Page 5 - Restore caller's DCDB Structure 4.20.14 - Update patch files for kernel 2.4.0-test5 4.20.13 - Fix some failure cases / reset code - Hook into the reboot_notifier to flush the controller cache 4.20.03 - Rename version to coincide with new release schedules - Performance fixes - Fix truncation of /proc files with cat - Merge in changes through kernel 2.4.0test1ac21 4.10.13 - Fix for dynamic unload and proc file system 4.10.00 - Add support for ServeRAID 4M/4L 4.00.06 - Fix timeout with initial FFDC command 4.00.05 - Remove wish_block from init routine - Use linux/spinlock.h instead of asm/spinlock.h for kernels 2.3.18 and later - Sync with other changes from the 2.3 kernels 4.00.04 - Rename structures/constants to be prefixed with IPS_ 4.00.03 - Add alternative passthru interface - Add ability to flash ServeRAID BIOS 4.00.02 - Fix problem with PT DCDB with no buffer 4.00.01 - Add support for First Failure Data Capture 4.00.00 - Add support for ServeRAID 4 3.60.02 - Make DCDB direction based on lookup table. - Only allow one DCDB command to a SCSI ID at a time. 3.60.01 - Remove bogus error check in passthru routine. 3.60.00 - Bump max commands to 128 for use with ServeRAID firmware 3.60. - Change version to 3.60 to coincide with ServeRAID release numbering. 1.00.00 - Initial Public Release - Functionally equivalent to 0.99.05 0.99.05 - Fix an oops on certain passthru commands 0.99.04 - Fix race condition in the passthru mechanism -- this required the interface to the utilities to change - Fix error recovery code 0.99.03 - Make interrupt routine handle all completed request on the adapter not just the first one - Make sure passthru commands get woken up if we run out of SCBs - Send all of the commands on the queue at once rather than one at a time since the card will support it. 0.99.02 - Added some additional debug statements to print out errors if an error occurs while trying to read/write to a logical drive (IPS_DEBUG). - Fixed read/write errors when the adapter is using an 8K stripe size.