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controllers, use Seagate firmware version SN05.
4.11 Intel SE7525RP2 and SE7320EP2 Motherboards
The Intel SE7525RP2 and SE7320EP2 motherboards do not support
Mode 0 flash. These motherboards use 64-bit PCI addressing.
The AFU currently supports 32-bit PCI addresses only.
4.12 Windows Server 2008 64-Bit SCSIport Driver
The Windows Server 2008 64-Bit SCSIport driver is in the process
of being certified and is not supported in this release. Use
the Storport driver instead.
4.13 Boot Drive Failure after OCE/RLM
The system may fail to boot after a boot drive OCE/RLM (online
capacity expansion/RAID level migration). To correct the problem,
verify that the boot drive is still listed as the first logical
device in Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM). If not, use the
Control-A BIOS utility to reselect the proper boot device.
4.14 Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Limits
This release supports a maximum of 8 concurrent OCE tasks in
the RAID array migration wizard.
4.15 Power Management under FreeBSD
The FreeBSD driver does not support power management in
this release.
4.16 Using RAID10 under FreeBSD
If a RAID10 array fails under FreeBSD the firmware may crash
causing the system to reboot automatically.
4.17 Power Management with Seagate SAS Drive ST31000640SS
Power Management is not supported by the Seagate ST31000640SS
SAS drive. (The drive powers down but will not power up without
rebooting.)
4.18 Linux Cache Synchronization
With Linux driver 1.1-5-2459 (or higher), you may see an improvement
in performance if you suppress cache synchronization. For a
controller with battery back-up, add 'options aacraid cache=6' to
the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file. To completely suppress cache
synchronization, add 'options aacraid cache=2'. Then, reboot.
Note that the smaller value provides no protection in case of a
power outage.
4.19 Listing Devices in VMware ESX 4.0 Console
After an array is deleted with ARCCONF, the VMware ESX 4.0 Console
will hang if you try to list available devices with 'fdisk -l'.
As a work-around, rescan first, then try 'fdisk -l'.
4.20 BIOS Hangs During Boot
Possible Cause: After a system shutdown, the daughterboard remains
active for several minutes. The Super Cap connector may have been
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