HP IO Accelerator Driver and Management Software 2.2.0 Release Notes

Contents 3
Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 5
Description ............................................................................................................................................... 5
Product models ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Operating systems ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Supported firmware version ........................................................................................................................ 6
Download location .................................................................................................................................... 7
Upgrade information ..................................................................................................................... 8
Upgrading from version 1.2.3 and earlier .................................................................................................... 8
Upgrading from version 1.2.4 to 1.2.7 ........................................................................................................ 8
Change log .................................................................................................................................. 9
Changes for version 2.2.0 .......................................................................................................................... 9
Included Unicode plug-ins ........................................................................................................................ 10
Included ANSI plug-ins ............................................................................................................................. 10
Management .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Bug fixes ................................................................................................................................................ 10
Errata ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Errata overview ....................................................................................................................................... 12
General issues ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Avoid unmanaged shutdown ........................................................................................................... 12
IO Accelerator uses host memory to operate ..................................................................................... 12
Periodic latency bump .................................................................................................................... 12
IO Accelerator is not bootable ........................................................................................................ 13
Compiler Cache (ccache) causes driver src.rpm rebuild failures on some distributions ............................ 13
Compiler Cache (ccache) causes driver src.rpm rebuild failures on some distributions ............................ 13
fio-update-iodrive shows strange version number ............................................................................... 13
fio-update-iodrive shows wrong version number ................................................................................. 13
Reported power usage from fio-status might be incorrect for IO Accelerator Monos ................................ 14
fio-status -a displays incorrectly for the .............................................................................................. 14
LED indicators do not operate properly ............................................................................................. 14
Linux-specific issues ................................................................................................................................. 15
Linux MD RAID5 performs poorly ..................................................................................................... 15
Drivers not installed after updating kernel ......................................................................................... 15
Rare error on driver unload using kernels older than 2.6.24 ............................................................... 15
ext4 in Kernel.org 2.6.33 or earlier might silently corrupt data when discard (trim) is enabled ................ 15
Driver might not autoload in some distributions .................................................................................. 16
RHEL4 2.6.9-22 kernel does not work with 320GB IO Accelerators ..................................................... 16
Modinfo module parameters not reported under RHEL4 ...................................................................... 16
Source rpm build fails in Chaos 4.3 with ccache enabled ................................................................... 16
Windows-specific issues ........................................................................................................................... 17
Windows operating systems find an old driver in the Windows\system32\driver directory ..................... 17
Conversion to GPT or Dynamic disk terminates Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service .................. 17
VMWare ESX-specific issues ..................................................................................................................... 18
ESXi not supported ........................................................................................................................ 18
HP IO Accelerator Management Tool-specific issues .................................................................................... 18