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* RECOMMENDED * Online ROM Flash Component for Windows (x64) - Smart Array H240ar, H240nr, H240, H241, H244br, P240nr, P244br, P246br, P440ar, P440, P441, P542D, P741m, P840, P840ar, and P841
By downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software License Agreement.
Note:
Some software requires a valid warranty, current Hewlett Packard Enterprise support contract, or a license fee.
This x64 Smart Component provides firmware for the following storage controllers: Smart Array H240ar, H240nr, H240, H241, H244br, P240nr, P244br, P246br, P440ar, P440, P441, P542D, P741m, P840, P840ar, and P841
To ensure the integrity of your download, HPE recommends verifying your results with
the following SHA-256 Checksum values:
| b4c5fc4b155363d54a796ff5a0af9786f80f3ef304bc32d50cb82ae1b8134634 |
cp029416.exe |
| c9cfecae98bb1a28fb48e83b67dd48ec5ee0586d9e49c0ae6b328d356ef9ab0c |
cp029416.md5 |
Reboot Requirement: Reboot is required after installation for updates to take effect and hardware stability to be maintained.
Installation:
To update firmware from Windows operating system on target server:
- Place the Smart Component in a temporary directory.
- Double-click on the Smart Component.
- Follow the directions given by the Smart Component.
- Reboot your system if you would like the update to take effect immediately.
To use HP Smart Update Manager from the Service Pack for ProLiant :
- Place the desired firmware to be updated in the directory, \SPP20xxxxx\hp\swpackages
- Locate Start.html which is found in the root of the ISO
- Open the html file in a supported browser
- Follow the instructions on the screen
End User License Agreements: HPE Software License Agreement v1 Hewlett-Packard End User License Agreement
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Notes:
Deliverable Name:
Online ROM Flash Component for Windows (x64) - Smart Array H240ar, H240nr, H240, H241, H244br, P240nr, P244br, P246br, P440ar, P440, P441, P542D, P741m, P840, P840ar, and P841
Release Version and/or Date:
3.56
Last Recommended or Critical Version:
3.56
Previous Version of Firmware:
3.00
Firmware Dependency:
None
Enhancements/New Features:
None
Problems Fixed in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Problems Fixed in v3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Known Issues:
None
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Fixes in 3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Version:6.88 (2 Apr 2019)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following Issues
- SATA drive could stop responding while on HBA mode when non-NCQ commands are executed
- Controller could stop responding when upgrading due to the DDR Cache Module exceeding its limitations
- SSD Cache module could become disable while upgrading FW
- Data from the HPE Smart Drive Backplane could potentially become corrupted if a non-HPE carrier is present
Version:6.60(B) (27 Nov 2018)
Enhancements
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Note: If version 6.60 was previously installed, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 6.60 (B).
Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Version:6.60 (26 Jun 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Issue where the QueryAsynchronousEvent could potentially provide incorrect response data
- Issue where the Cache could potentially get disable after several reboots
Enhancements
- Added support for larger SmartCache capacity size
Version:6.30(B) (16 Jan 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following issues:
- DDR cache could be randomly disabled after several boots
- The controller could become unresponsive while in HBA mode during the creation of a partition/file system
Enhancements
- Added support for Windows 10 OS
Note: If any version 6.30 was previously installed, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 6.30 (B).
Version:6.30 (5 Feb 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following issues:
- DDR cache could be randomly disabled after several boots
- The controller could become unresponsive while in HBA mode during the creation of a partition/file system
Version:6.06 (25 Sep 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- In a multi-path environment with nested expanders, the active path to a device might be incorrect following a path failure or restoration.
Version:5.52(B) (17 Jul 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Version 5.52
- The Smart Array controller cache module might be marked as permanently disabled if the Smart Storage Battery is removed or failed while the system is online, even if the Smart Storage Administrator Utility (SSA) was previously used to enable write caching without a backup power source.
- SATA drives might not be presented to the host in a Synergy system with a D3940 Disk Enclosure.
- A hot-inserted replacement drive might show as a predictive failure if the original drive was identified as a predictive failure.
- Port/box/bay information for physical drives might report an incorrect box number in zoned or multi-path configurations.
Version 5.52 (B)
- Modified component installer to detect if the Windows HPCISSS3.sys driver version 100.18.2.64 is installed. With HPCISSS3.sys driver version 100.18.2.64 a Windows blue screen could occur during installation of the controller firmware. HPCISSS3.sys driver must be updated to version 100.20.0.64 or later and the Windows operating system must be restarted before attempting to install this component.
Note: If controller firmware is currently at version 5.52, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 5.52 (B).
Version:5.04 (21 Apr 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
HPE strongly recommends that this firmware update be performed in an offline environment. If this firmware update is performed online, ensure a graceful shutdown or restart is performed in order to flush all data from the controller cache before the new firmware is activated. Abruptly rebooting the system while there is data in cache might result in data loss.
- Kernel core dump using kdump might not complete in Linux when using Smart Array Gen9 firmware version 4.52.
- Intermittent memory errors might cause the controller to stop responding. (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding if a parity error is found during surface scan of a RAID6 volume. (POST Lockup 0x13)
- In rare cases, the controller might stop responding while running IO without displaying a lockup code.
- Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) might occur on systems with a Windows OS and HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapters and performing continuous reboot testing.
- System IO might stop when using certain 6TiB and 8TiB SAS drives in a dual-path configuration with an HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapter in HBA-mode, possibly resulting in an OS crash.
- Physical slot location of SATA drives might not be returned correctly when using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).
- Multiple direct attach SATA drives within a cluster might show the same World Wide Name (WWN) when using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).
- Drive LED’s might be illuminated for the wrong drive and/or only illuminate momentarily when connected to an expander configuration with an HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapter in HBA-mode.
- Controllers using a 4GB cache module might fail data retention following an unexpected power event. (POST message 1793 - Data in Write-Back Cache has been Lost)
- System fans might go to 100% if connected drives were spun down.
Enhancements
- Added support to enable setting the controller boot order in Legacy BIOS Mode.
- Enhanced debug capabilities when running in HBA-mode and connected to an expander configuration.
Version:4.52 (24 Oct 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- SATA SSD’s were incorrectly marked as worn out.
- Poor performance on the first logical volume with drive write cache enabled.
- Controller might hang or show as failed in the IML with 20+ SATA SSD’s configured in a RAID6 volume with Smart Path enabled and IO running.
- System might hang at POST following a reboot.
- System might lockup at POST following a reboot (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Duplicate SCSI devices shown in Linux after issuing a bus rescan command.
- Recovered paths were not restored when using a SmartArray P742m controller connected to an external drive enclosure and a shared storage external enclosure.
- Smart Array P741m controller missing the embedded SmartCache license key.
- System might stop responding in response to a rare error (POST Lockup 0x13).
- Drives might not appear as HPE authentic drives when used in a zoning configuration.
- Deferred drive firmware flashing might hang at POST with some models of drives.
Enhancements
- Increased performance of SATA drives by increasing command queue depth.
Version:4.02(B) (28 Apr 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Problems Fixed in 4.02:
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Flash-backed write cache might fail on embedded controllers following an unexpected power down event.
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Detection of all physical drives behind the same expander might fail if a single drive did not spin up.
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Server power up might take an extended amount of time if failed drives are present behind a controller running in HBA mode.
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SATA drives might go offline during runtime.
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Logical volumes might be disabled after flashing enclosure SEP device firmware.
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Controller might stop responding when running IO with an attached Shared Storage enclosure (POST Lockup 0xAB).
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Controller might stop responding when running Linux and an abort command is issued by the host.
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An intermittent aborted IO request with attached SATA drives resulted in a LUN (Logical Unit Number) reset.
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Incorrectly displayed drive failure message in HPESSA for rebuilding SSD.
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Incorrectly displayed 0% progress message in HPESSA for sanitizing SSD.
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Reduced likelihood of POST Lockup 0x13 occurrence due to intermittent memory errors.
Problems Fixed in 4.02 (B):
Enhancements
Version:4.02 (21 Mar 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
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Flash-backed write cache might fail on embedded controllers following an unexpected power down event.
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Detection of all physical drives behind the same expander might fail if a single drive did not spin up.
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Server power up might take an extended amount of time if failed drives are present behind a controller running in HBA mode.
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SATA drives might go offline during runtime.
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Logical volumes might be disabled after flashing enclosure SEP device firmware.
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Controller might stop responding when running IO with an attached Shared Storage enclosure (POST Lockup 0xAB).
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Controller might stop responding when running Linux and an abort command is issued by the host.
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An intermittent aborted IO request with attached SATA drives resulted in a LUN (Logical Unit Number) reset.
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Incorrectly displayed drive failure message in HPESSA for rebuilding SSD.
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Incorrectly displayed 0% progress message in HPESSA for sanitizing SSD.
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Reduced likelihood of POST Lockup 0x13 occurrence due to intermittent memory errors.
Enhancements
Version:3.56(B) (1 Mar 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Fixes in 3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Version:3.56 (3 Dec 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
Version:3.52 (30 Oct 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
Version:3.00 (1 Oct 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Enhancements
Version:2.52 (15 Jun 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- If an HP Smart Array controller is configured with HP SmartCache, upgrade the controller to firmware version 2.52 to avoid a possible lockup (POST lockup 0x13)
- System fans might run at maximum speed
- System might be unable to boot from volumes on HP MSA 2040 SAS enclosures
- Physical drives might be repeated in the UEFI one-time boot menu
- Installation of a custom Linux ISO might fail to boot with “error: can’t allocate initrd”
- Controller might stop responding at power up with encryption enabled (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding when sending high numbers of non-NCQ commands to SATA drives behind H-series cards (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding following the hot-removal of a drive from a fault tolerant volume (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- System might be unable to downgrade controller firmware via UEFI flashing tool
- If a Smart Array controller with firmware version 2.14 was running in HBA mode and the drives that were connected were previously configured in a LUN, an 1832 POST message was not displayed. Refer to Customer Advisory c04635824 for additional information about this issue.
- Certain POST messages displayed although the error conditions were not present. The Smart Array Controller firmware has been hardened to reduce the likelihood of these false error messages occurring:
- POST 1784, which indicated a logical drive failure
- POST 1795, which indicated a write-back-cache error and disabled cache
Enhancements
- Improved performance by limiting Surface Scan frequency to once every 14 days
- Increased performance for tape drives when using variable block sizes
- Updated type and quantity of information logged to the Active Health System log
- Added support for the following:
- Check for drive firmware update needed on hot-plugged devices
- Non-disruptive online drive firmware updates for supported SATA drives
- Microsoft Storage Spaces
- HP MSA 1040 external RAID enclosure
- Third party external RAID enclosures
Version:2.14 (2 Apr 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Critical - HPE requires users update to this version immediately.
Problems Fixed:
- Critical issue for all UEFI systems using 2.2 TB or greater volumes configured with GPT partitions. For additional information please refer to the customer advisory # c04602001
- When rebuilding a logical volume greater than 2TB in size, the controller might cease to function (POST Lockup 0xE0). Controller would report a POST Lockup 0xE0 error and cease to function, when the following conditions were met:
1) Encryption enabled and a re-key operation was in progress.
2) While IO was in progress, physical drives failed in an Advanced Data Guarding (RAID6 or RAID60) volume, which caused the volume to go into a degraded state.
3) Degraded Mode Performance Optimization was enabled via HP Smart Storage Administrator.
- If a power outage or brownout occurred while running a volume expansion, the controller might cease to function on the following boot (POST Lockup 0x13).
- HP D2600/D2700 Disk Enclosures might not show the correct box number on the LED display.
- Controller might become unresponsive if a drive was re-inserted into encrypted LUN while performing IO on it.
- When running IO with encryption turned on in remote mode and a local key cache enabled, changing the master key might result in encryption being disabled on the next power up.
- Controller allowed encryption key changes even with locked volumes.
- A key restore from an Enterprise Secure Key Manager could take a long time for large configurations.
- Users were unable to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5 to a logical volume on an HP P2000 MSA Array System if both an HP H241 and H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter were present in the system.
- When HP D3700 Disk Enclosures were connected to an HP H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter, the maximum number of enclosures displayed in the boot menu was five, although a maximum of eight enclosures were supported.
- When a volume expansion or encryption re-key operation was performed, and if multiple power losses or brownouts occurred, data might become inaccessible (POST Message 1769).
- POST messages 1764, 1768, 1784, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1831 have been updated and/or corrected.
Enhancements
Enhancements/New Features:
- Servers now power up faster due to improvements in the UEFI controller driver.
- Logical volume transformations are allowed on controllers without data preservation.
- Drives can now be hot-added in a zoned configuration.
Version:1.34(B) (11 Dec 2014)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Critical - HPE requires users update to this version immediately.
Problems Fixed:
- Controller may stop responding while running IO (POST Lockup 0xB9). (For additional information please refer to the customer advisory #c04555905)
- When a server was running and power was removed and then re-applied to an HP D6000, the controller may cease to function (POST Lockup 0xAB).
- Following a reboot, SATA drives in Bay 1 and Bay 2 of an HP D6000 may fail to be discovered, leading to any configured LUN’s using these bays to go into interim recovery mode.
- If a power-outage or brownout occurs while running HP SmartCache, the controller may cease to function on the following boot (POST Lockup 0x13).
Enhancements
Enhancements/New Features:
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Added support for HP H241.
Version:1.18 (6 Oct 2014)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Problems Fixed:
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Following a server power-cycle reboot, the cache read/write ratio for an HP Smart Array P244br, P440ar, P440, P441, or P840 controller could not be changed using the HP Smart Storage Administrator (HP SSA) GUI Cache Manager feature.
Note: This issue was not seen when using the HP SSA CLI.
Version:1.14 (9 Sep 2014)
Enhancements
Upgrade Requirement: Optional - Users should update to this version if their system is affected by one of the documented fixes or if there is a desire to utilize any of the enhanced functionality provided by this version.
Enhancements/New Features:
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1.14 is the initial firmware release.
| Type: |
Firmware - Storage Controller |
| Version: |
3.56(B)(1 Mar 2016) |
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Description
This x64 Smart Component provides firmware for the following storage controllers: Smart Array H240ar, H240nr, H240, H241, H244br, P240nr, P244br, P246br, P440ar, P440, P441, P542D, P741m, P840, P840ar, and P841
Installation Instructions
To ensure the integrity of your download, HPE recommends verifying your results with
the following SHA-256 Checksum values:
| b4c5fc4b155363d54a796ff5a0af9786f80f3ef304bc32d50cb82ae1b8134634 |
cp029416.exe |
| c9cfecae98bb1a28fb48e83b67dd48ec5ee0586d9e49c0ae6b328d356ef9ab0c |
cp029416.md5 |
Reboot Requirement: Reboot is required after installation for updates to take effect and hardware stability to be maintained.
Installation:
To update firmware from Windows operating system on target server:
- Place the Smart Component in a temporary directory.
- Double-click on the Smart Component.
- Follow the directions given by the Smart Component.
- Reboot your system if you would like the update to take effect immediately.
To use HP Smart Update Manager from the Service Pack for ProLiant :
- Place the desired firmware to be updated in the directory, \SPP20xxxxx\hp\swpackages
- Locate Start.html which is found in the root of the ISO
- Open the html file in a supported browser
- Follow the instructions on the screen
Release Notes
End User License Agreements: HPE Software License Agreement v1 Hewlett-Packard End User License Agreement
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Notes:
Deliverable Name:
Online ROM Flash Component for Windows (x64) - Smart Array H240ar, H240nr, H240, H241, H244br, P240nr, P244br, P246br, P440ar, P440, P441, P542D, P741m, P840, P840ar, and P841
Release Version and/or Date:
3.56
Last Recommended or Critical Version:
3.56
Previous Version of Firmware:
3.00
Firmware Dependency:
None
Enhancements/New Features:
None
Problems Fixed in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Problems Fixed in v3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Known Issues:
None
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Fixes in 3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Revision History
Version:6.88 (2 Apr 2019)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following Issues
- SATA drive could stop responding while on HBA mode when non-NCQ commands are executed
- Controller could stop responding when upgrading due to the DDR Cache Module exceeding its limitations
- SSD Cache module could become disable while upgrading FW
- Data from the HPE Smart Drive Backplane could potentially become corrupted if a non-HPE carrier is present
Version:6.60(B) (27 Nov 2018)
Enhancements
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Note: If version 6.60 was previously installed, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 6.60 (B).
Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Version:6.60 (26 Jun 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Issue where the QueryAsynchronousEvent could potentially provide incorrect response data
- Issue where the Cache could potentially get disable after several reboots
Enhancements
- Added support for larger SmartCache capacity size
Version:6.30(B) (16 Jan 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following issues:
- DDR cache could be randomly disabled after several boots
- The controller could become unresponsive while in HBA mode during the creation of a partition/file system
Enhancements
- Added support for Windows 10 OS
Note: If any version 6.30 was previously installed, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 6.30 (B).
Version:6.30 (5 Feb 2018)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes the following issues:
- DDR cache could be randomly disabled after several boots
- The controller could become unresponsive while in HBA mode during the creation of a partition/file system
Version:6.06 (25 Sep 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- In a multi-path environment with nested expanders, the active path to a device might be incorrect following a path failure or restoration.
Version:5.52(B) (17 Jul 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Version 5.52
- The Smart Array controller cache module might be marked as permanently disabled if the Smart Storage Battery is removed or failed while the system is online, even if the Smart Storage Administrator Utility (SSA) was previously used to enable write caching without a backup power source.
- SATA drives might not be presented to the host in a Synergy system with a D3940 Disk Enclosure.
- A hot-inserted replacement drive might show as a predictive failure if the original drive was identified as a predictive failure.
- Port/box/bay information for physical drives might report an incorrect box number in zoned or multi-path configurations.
Version 5.52 (B)
- Modified component installer to detect if the Windows HPCISSS3.sys driver version 100.18.2.64 is installed. With HPCISSS3.sys driver version 100.18.2.64 a Windows blue screen could occur during installation of the controller firmware. HPCISSS3.sys driver must be updated to version 100.20.0.64 or later and the Windows operating system must be restarted before attempting to install this component.
Note: If controller firmware is currently at version 5.52, then it is not necessary to upgrade to version 5.52 (B).
Version:5.04 (21 Apr 2017)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
HPE strongly recommends that this firmware update be performed in an offline environment. If this firmware update is performed online, ensure a graceful shutdown or restart is performed in order to flush all data from the controller cache before the new firmware is activated. Abruptly rebooting the system while there is data in cache might result in data loss.
- Kernel core dump using kdump might not complete in Linux when using Smart Array Gen9 firmware version 4.52.
- Intermittent memory errors might cause the controller to stop responding. (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding if a parity error is found during surface scan of a RAID6 volume. (POST Lockup 0x13)
- In rare cases, the controller might stop responding while running IO without displaying a lockup code.
- Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) might occur on systems with a Windows OS and HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapters and performing continuous reboot testing.
- System IO might stop when using certain 6TiB and 8TiB SAS drives in a dual-path configuration with an HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapter in HBA-mode, possibly resulting in an OS crash.
- Physical slot location of SATA drives might not be returned correctly when using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).
- Multiple direct attach SATA drives within a cluster might show the same World Wide Name (WWN) when using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).
- Drive LED’s might be illuminated for the wrong drive and/or only illuminate momentarily when connected to an expander configuration with an HPE Gen9 Smart Array or Smart HBA adapter in HBA-mode.
- Controllers using a 4GB cache module might fail data retention following an unexpected power event. (POST message 1793 - Data in Write-Back Cache has been Lost)
- System fans might go to 100% if connected drives were spun down.
Enhancements
- Added support to enable setting the controller boot order in Legacy BIOS Mode.
- Enhanced debug capabilities when running in HBA-mode and connected to an expander configuration.
Version:4.52 (24 Oct 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- SATA SSD’s were incorrectly marked as worn out.
- Poor performance on the first logical volume with drive write cache enabled.
- Controller might hang or show as failed in the IML with 20+ SATA SSD’s configured in a RAID6 volume with Smart Path enabled and IO running.
- System might hang at POST following a reboot.
- System might lockup at POST following a reboot (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Duplicate SCSI devices shown in Linux after issuing a bus rescan command.
- Recovered paths were not restored when using a SmartArray P742m controller connected to an external drive enclosure and a shared storage external enclosure.
- Smart Array P741m controller missing the embedded SmartCache license key.
- System might stop responding in response to a rare error (POST Lockup 0x13).
- Drives might not appear as HPE authentic drives when used in a zoning configuration.
- Deferred drive firmware flashing might hang at POST with some models of drives.
Enhancements
- Increased performance of SATA drives by increasing command queue depth.
Version:4.02(B) (28 Apr 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Problems Fixed in 4.02:
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Flash-backed write cache might fail on embedded controllers following an unexpected power down event.
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Detection of all physical drives behind the same expander might fail if a single drive did not spin up.
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Server power up might take an extended amount of time if failed drives are present behind a controller running in HBA mode.
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SATA drives might go offline during runtime.
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Logical volumes might be disabled after flashing enclosure SEP device firmware.
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Controller might stop responding when running IO with an attached Shared Storage enclosure (POST Lockup 0xAB).
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Controller might stop responding when running Linux and an abort command is issued by the host.
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An intermittent aborted IO request with attached SATA drives resulted in a LUN (Logical Unit Number) reset.
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Incorrectly displayed drive failure message in HPESSA for rebuilding SSD.
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Incorrectly displayed 0% progress message in HPESSA for sanitizing SSD.
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Reduced likelihood of POST Lockup 0x13 occurrence due to intermittent memory errors.
Problems Fixed in 4.02 (B):
Enhancements
Version:4.02 (21 Mar 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
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Flash-backed write cache might fail on embedded controllers following an unexpected power down event.
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Detection of all physical drives behind the same expander might fail if a single drive did not spin up.
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Server power up might take an extended amount of time if failed drives are present behind a controller running in HBA mode.
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SATA drives might go offline during runtime.
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Logical volumes might be disabled after flashing enclosure SEP device firmware.
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Controller might stop responding when running IO with an attached Shared Storage enclosure (POST Lockup 0xAB).
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Controller might stop responding when running Linux and an abort command is issued by the host.
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An intermittent aborted IO request with attached SATA drives resulted in a LUN (Logical Unit Number) reset.
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Incorrectly displayed drive failure message in HPESSA for rebuilding SSD.
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Incorrectly displayed 0% progress message in HPESSA for sanitizing SSD.
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Reduced likelihood of POST Lockup 0x13 occurrence due to intermittent memory errors.
Enhancements
Version:3.56(B) (1 Mar 2016)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Fixes in v3.56:
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
- Cache may be disabled and POST Error Messages 1793, 1797, and/or 1798 may be displayed during POST. Refer to Customer Advisory c04947297 for additional information.
Fixes in 3.56(B):
- Component would cause an exception error when deployed on a computer with a fully qualified domain name greater than 40 characters in length.
Version:3.56 (3 Dec 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
- With SLES11 SP4 installed, the system may fail to boot to the OS after updating to 3.52 SmartArray controller firmware
Version:3.52 (30 Oct 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- Controller might stop responding when drives were reporting errors (POST Lockup 0x13)
- Controller in HBA mode might stop responding if a command to a SATA drive timed out (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- Detection of all direct-attached physical drives might fail if a single drive did not spin up
- A physical drive configured as a spare drive might indicate predictive failure sooner than expected
- Erroneous Critical message displayed in ADU: “Box Failure Due To Primary Io Module”
Version:3.00 (1 Oct 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Enhancements
Version:2.52 (15 Jun 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
- If an HP Smart Array controller is configured with HP SmartCache, upgrade the controller to firmware version 2.52 to avoid a possible lockup (POST lockup 0x13)
- System fans might run at maximum speed
- System might be unable to boot from volumes on HP MSA 2040 SAS enclosures
- Physical drives might be repeated in the UEFI one-time boot menu
- Installation of a custom Linux ISO might fail to boot with “error: can’t allocate initrd”
- Controller might stop responding at power up with encryption enabled (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding when sending high numbers of non-NCQ commands to SATA drives behind H-series cards (POST Lockup 0x13)
- System might stop responding following the hot-removal of a drive from a fault tolerant volume (POST Lockup 0xAB)
- System might be unable to downgrade controller firmware via UEFI flashing tool
- If a Smart Array controller with firmware version 2.14 was running in HBA mode and the drives that were connected were previously configured in a LUN, an 1832 POST message was not displayed. Refer to Customer Advisory c04635824 for additional information about this issue.
- Certain POST messages displayed although the error conditions were not present. The Smart Array Controller firmware has been hardened to reduce the likelihood of these false error messages occurring:
- POST 1784, which indicated a logical drive failure
- POST 1795, which indicated a write-back-cache error and disabled cache
Enhancements
- Improved performance by limiting Surface Scan frequency to once every 14 days
- Increased performance for tape drives when using variable block sizes
- Updated type and quantity of information logged to the Active Health System log
- Added support for the following:
- Check for drive firmware update needed on hot-plugged devices
- Non-disruptive online drive firmware updates for supported SATA drives
- Microsoft Storage Spaces
- HP MSA 1040 external RAID enclosure
- Third party external RAID enclosures
Version:2.14 (2 Apr 2015)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Critical - HPE requires users update to this version immediately.
Problems Fixed:
- Critical issue for all UEFI systems using 2.2 TB or greater volumes configured with GPT partitions. For additional information please refer to the customer advisory # c04602001
- When rebuilding a logical volume greater than 2TB in size, the controller might cease to function (POST Lockup 0xE0). Controller would report a POST Lockup 0xE0 error and cease to function, when the following conditions were met:
1) Encryption enabled and a re-key operation was in progress.
2) While IO was in progress, physical drives failed in an Advanced Data Guarding (RAID6 or RAID60) volume, which caused the volume to go into a degraded state.
3) Degraded Mode Performance Optimization was enabled via HP Smart Storage Administrator.
- If a power outage or brownout occurred while running a volume expansion, the controller might cease to function on the following boot (POST Lockup 0x13).
- HP D2600/D2700 Disk Enclosures might not show the correct box number on the LED display.
- Controller might become unresponsive if a drive was re-inserted into encrypted LUN while performing IO on it.
- When running IO with encryption turned on in remote mode and a local key cache enabled, changing the master key might result in encryption being disabled on the next power up.
- Controller allowed encryption key changes even with locked volumes.
- A key restore from an Enterprise Secure Key Manager could take a long time for large configurations.
- Users were unable to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5 to a logical volume on an HP P2000 MSA Array System if both an HP H241 and H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter were present in the system.
- When HP D3700 Disk Enclosures were connected to an HP H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter, the maximum number of enclosures displayed in the boot menu was five, although a maximum of eight enclosures were supported.
- When a volume expansion or encryption re-key operation was performed, and if multiple power losses or brownouts occurred, data might become inaccessible (POST Message 1769).
- POST messages 1764, 1768, 1784, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1831 have been updated and/or corrected.
Enhancements
Enhancements/New Features:
- Servers now power up faster due to improvements in the UEFI controller driver.
- Logical volume transformations are allowed on controllers without data preservation.
- Drives can now be hot-added in a zoned configuration.
Version:1.34(B) (11 Dec 2014)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Critical - HPE requires users update to this version immediately.
Problems Fixed:
- Controller may stop responding while running IO (POST Lockup 0xB9). (For additional information please refer to the customer advisory #c04555905)
- When a server was running and power was removed and then re-applied to an HP D6000, the controller may cease to function (POST Lockup 0xAB).
- Following a reboot, SATA drives in Bay 1 and Bay 2 of an HP D6000 may fail to be discovered, leading to any configured LUN’s using these bays to go into interim recovery mode.
- If a power-outage or brownout occurs while running HP SmartCache, the controller may cease to function on the following boot (POST Lockup 0x13).
Enhancements
Enhancements/New Features:
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Added support for HP H241.
Version:1.18 (6 Oct 2014)
Fixes
Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.
Problems Fixed:
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Following a server power-cycle reboot, the cache read/write ratio for an HP Smart Array P244br, P440ar, P440, P441, or P840 controller could not be changed using the HP Smart Storage Administrator (HP SSA) GUI Cache Manager feature.
Note: This issue was not seen when using the HP SSA CLI.
Version:1.14 (9 Sep 2014)
Enhancements
Upgrade Requirement: Optional - Users should update to this version if their system is affected by one of the documented fixes or if there is a desire to utilize any of the enhanced functionality provided by this version.
Enhancements/New Features:
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1.14 is the initial firmware release.
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