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1. RTC can run off power setting date and time in WPP is not supported Workaround There is no plan to support this feature 19196 Seagate ES 2 SATA disk compatibility issue Problem description There is a known compatibility issue when attach Seagate ES 2 SATA disk both NS or AS version Know drive model and firmware version ST31000340AS FW SD15 ST3500320NS FW SNO5 gt ANO5 Workaround For NS version drive please use firmware version ANOS or later For AS version please check with Seagate for update 19738 Physical device id PD ID is not persistent Problem description Physical disk ID is not a persistent value in SuperTrak TX series system this value Page 2 of 3 only reflect the discovery order It is recommend always use the location information to refer to physical drive Workaround Please use enclosure and slot information to refer to a physical device 19764 Unplug and plug the rebuild HDD It is included in source DA Problem description Unplug and plug back the disk into a disk group if no OS write happen on that disk group SuperTrak TX series will allow disk join back to the original disk group If any valid OS write happen on such DA this disk will not be able to join back to same DA It will be enlisted as a separate incomplete DA This is the situation described in 18777 Workaround No work around is needed 18761 Unplug HDDs in migration process Migration still percentage2. 681 OS can not be installed on LD with sector size bigger than 512byte Problem description This is a system limitation operating system can not be loaded properly if it is installed on the LD with sector size bigger than 512 byte Workaround Please avoid use non 512 byte sector size LD to install operating system 18740 Event has wrong time stamp when it happen before OS boot Problem description Before OS boot there is no host and IOP time stamp sync available Any events happen in this stage will have wrong value You could see the year value of time stamp something very out dated Workaround There is no work around for this When you see event time stamp dated for year 1969 this mean these events occur before OS boot 18777 Unplug a HDD then Plug in the HDD right away while another HDD is rebuilding It doesn t show staleconfig Problem description After disk group is rebuilding although the unplugged disk should not be merged back to same disk group but it has a complete valid DDF record controller will show the information as an incomplete disk group Workaround No work around is needed here Please clear the DDF of disk 19186 Firmware unable to be updated in WPP Problem description Online firmware update through WPP is not supported due to limited size of memory on the controller Workaround There is no plan to support this feature 19194 Cannot Set Date and Time in WPP Problem description SuperTrak TX series doesn t have
3. SuperTrak TX8658 8650 SAS and SATA Controller Release Notes November 2008 Contents for This Release Please check the Promise website for the latest updates This release note includes Firmware BIOS Drivers WebPAM PRO and CLI for the Promise SuperTrak TX8658 TX8650 SAS and SATA Controllers as follows Product CD Single Image Firmware BIOS 3 01 0000 00 Windows Drivers o XP 4 01 0000 08 SCSlport o 2003 Vista 2008 4 01 0000 08 Storport Linux Drivers 4 06 1000 5 o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 32 64bit UP amp SNP SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 32 64bit Open SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 2 32 64bit Open SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 3 32 64bit Open SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 32 64bit RedHat Enterprise Linux5 0 32 64bit kernel RedHat Enterprise Linux5 1 32 64bit kernel RedHat Enterprise Linux5 2 32 64bit kernel oO 000 0 0 0 WebPAM PRO o Windows 3 13 0000 00 o Linux 3 13 0000 00 CLI o Windows 3 13 0000 00 o Linux 3 13 0000 00 SuperTrak TX8658 8650 Quick Start Guide QSG v1 0a SuperTrak TX Series User Manual UM v1 1 Readme File Release Notes Launch Utility Adobe Reader v9 Page 1 of 3 Known issues ID Title 18539 Cascade two E610s 64 LDs with SuperTrak TX8658 HBA Can t see any E610 LDs Workaround There is no workaround available for this issue the fix will be included in service release 18
4. doesn t change Problem description When this happen the migration process will be aborted Percentage value doesn t mean anything here any more In future release FW will do the change to show the 0 percentage value in order not to create unnecessary confusion Workaround No work around is needed 18860 Rebuild to free disk according to HDD size not the controller of PD ID Problem description Automatically rebuild apply a best fit algorithm Disk picked to rebuild is not base on the PD ID but based on the best fit PD size Workaround No work around is needed 18936 Event timestamp shows in WPP CLI is different from what displayed in the host OS system event Problem description The time in system event represent when the system got the event but not the time the event is created Workaround No work around is needed 18974 LD status offline but DA status still degraded Problem description LD status is defined by LD RAID mode and DG status is defined by the availability of all disks in the group Workaround No work around is needed 19506 SuperTrak TX8650 Migration didn t have Resume selection If do Transport operation migration will stop Workaround Please do not execute transportation before migration is finished Promise will solve this bug in the next service release 19594 CA tool can not detect LD creation from the controller Problem description CA tool can not detect the LD creation from the controller user ha
5. s to close and reopen the program to see the newly created LD Workaround Please reopen the CA tool 20087 Can t change Stale Disk to Passthru in WPP Can do it in BIOS GUI Problem description WPP doesn t provide operation to change from stale disk to pass through disk directly need clear stale first Workaround in WPP need clear stale first Use the Clear tab Page 3 of 3
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