Download Firmware Areca ARC-11xx/12xx/1680/1880 1.49

Areca recently released new firmware for the raid controllers in the ARC-11xx, ARC-12xx, ARC-1680 and ARC-1880 series, with version number 1.49. New is, among other things, the addition and optimization of the ARC-1880 series and the support of hard drives larger than 2TB. The full list of changes looks like this:

Change Log For V1.49 Firmware

• Improve SMP support for ARC1680
• ARC1680/1212/1682 4.9.2.0 transport firmware NG for some HDDs use 4.7.3.0
• Fix VOLUME_FAILED cause controller to hang
• ARC1880:1st release
• Add:HP SAS EXP Card 2.02 support
• SAS_HOST_MODE:support 6G expander, ARC1680 …., ARC1880/8040 ….
• ARC1880/8040:change STACK_SIZE_LOW to avoid problem when LCD panel or VT100 operate HDD fucntion
• ARC1880/8040:Add LCD initialization strings (test SDRAM…)
• LCD panel: remove checking or MAX 3 hot spare
• CheckMigratingX:added for migration failed but migration status is inconsistent
• Remove inconsistent fail flag for raid6 migration
• Improve checking of spurious SCB/IO, move the check to LinkErrorDevHandle
• Fix removing of failed HDD hang the system
• ARC1880/8040:Fix LSI6G PLI implementation of Start/StopUnit and SATA passthrough problem
• SUPPORT_CHANGE_CAPACITY:after volume capacity is expanded, return check condition with CAPACITY DATA Changed
• ARC1880/8040:RaidInitZero may break, because raid may be freed before init routine to complete
• During volume check of RAID4/5/6, hot removing of entire raidset will cause raidNumberOfDevices to 0, and checking routine will hang
• Fix when expasion raidset and target disk failed, after migration pasued and controller restarted, the migration halted
• Add DISK_WRITE_CACHE_SETTING for models without BBU to control disk write cache mode
• Fix race condition for cache line allocation
• Fix SAS/SAS2 model’s SPC3 compliance
• Add ThreadDelayMs to improve GUI speed of PCI host adapter
• Tune ARC1880 performance
• Fix ARC1880:1st level attached device’s RED LED not on if device removed
• Enclosure.c:Add space between E%d and %s
• ARC1880:fix zoning problem
• ARC1880/1680:Add 6G expander zoning support
• Fix TEST_ZONING with log
• Fix enclousre power off with raidset is initializing or rebuilding…
• ARC1880:modify geteon delay stepping,
• Add support for mail greet pause, use different tcp_send timeout value
• Fix raidset activate problem for rebuilding percentage
• Add display of Error Recovery Control Status or SATA hdd
• Modify pure SATAs NEW_83782D_HWMON SNMP
• Patch ARC1880 boot code for PLI Phase6/7
• Add CheckEesaBlackList to exclude some HDD with error recovery control problem
• Add SUPPORT for ARC1880IXL-8
• ARC1880:fix return from BBM with 4G sdram
• Fix when many volumes is created for RAID6 and failed two drive, some volume may still NEED_REBUILD and REBUILDING
• Fix SAS devices add/remove routine is invoked before SasDeviceInit is called
• Add support for ARC1880LP
• Modify GetResource and PostResource
• Fix write through problem for IOP348 based HBA
  • (0) ARC1680/1212/1682/SPT1680/WTN1212
  • (A) Only ARC1680 reveal the problem
  • (B) The problem occurred if SUPPORT_PERSISTENT_RESERVE is defined
  • (C) The problem is the STACK overflow if write through
  • (D) Change stack size for All IOP348 models
• Fix reportlun command to exclude FAILED and FOREGROUND init volume
• ARC1680:Add LARGE_DEV_LBA support
• SAS2 target mode:ARC8040/8066/8366
• Fix MRVL5182 based more than 2TB hdd support
• ARC1682:Add over 2TB HDD support
• ARC1680:remove VerifyDrive to support seagate SED drive
• Add NO_UPS_STATUS for enclosure.c to remove ENC without UPS status
• Patch supermicro SES problem, unsupported power state report value 6
• Add rename raidset name support
• Port ARC1880 subsystem
• Add NEW_MAIL_ALERT_CONFIG to support different mail alert config for different mail account
• V1.49 20101202 – All PCI/E HBA models (except 1880)
• V1.49 20101210 – ARC1880