Recommended update for iprutils
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(Last modified: 24MAY2005)
solutions Recommended update for iprutils SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (ec7afd41f0d9b79158bdee37d2764608)
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for x86
SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM POWER
SUSE CORE 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
Patch: patch-10078
Release: 20050524
Obsoletes: none
- changes for version 2.0.15:
- Clarify format options
- Setup mode page 0 for IBM drives to ensure command aging is enabled. This ensures commands are not starved on some drives.
- Fix so that iprdump properly names dump files once 100 dumps have been made.
- Make iprconfig handle failures of scsi disk formats better
- Fix iprconfig Set root kernel message log directory menu
- Properly display RAID level on all iprconfig screens
- Don't disable init.d daemons on an rpm -U
- Add ability to force RAID consistency check
- changes for version 2.0.14.2:
- Fixed bug preventing disk microcode update from working.
- Removed mention of primary/secondary adapters in some error screens since multi-initiator RAID is not supported and the messages will just cause confusion.
- iprconfig: During disk hotplug, wait for sd devices to show up. Fixes errors getting logged by iprconfig during hotplug.
- iprconfig: Fix cancel path on concurrent add/remove of disks
- Don't display current bus width and speed for SAS disks
- Fix scoping bug caught by gcc 4.0.
- Stop iprupdate from continually logging errors for adapters with backlevel adapter firmware.
- changes for version 2.0.14:
- Add support for non-interactive array creation and deletion through iprconfig.
- Use kobject_uevent notifications instead of polling if the kernel supports it.
- Fix iprconfig to set the actual queue depth for advanced function disks
- Allow user to force tagged queuing on to drives that do not support QERR=1.
- iprconfig: Download microcode. Fix blank screen when displaying lots of microcode images.
- Add "known to be zeroed" tracking to iprconfig to drastically reduce the time required to create a RAID array when starting with 512 formatted disks
- Add ability to query multi-adapter status for dual initiator RAID configs
- Add ability to set "preferred primary" adapter when running dual initiator RAID configs
- Add iprconfig screen to display dual adapter status for dual initiator RAID configs
- Prevent RAID configuration from occurring on "secondary" adapter in dual initiator RAID configs
- Use /dev/sd for SG_IO instead of /dev/sg when possible
- Set QERR=3 rather than 1 for multi-initiator configurations
- Set TST=1 for multi-initiator configurations
- Allow Format device for JBOD function to work for JBOD adapters
- Fix handling of dead adapters in all of iprutils.
- changes for version 2.0.13.7:
- Fix to support multiple firmware dirs in /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
- Fix use of uninitialized variable in iprconfig.
- Fix handling of medium format corrupt drives for drives that return NOT_READY instead of MEDIUM_ERROR.
- Fix iprconfig RAID start bug for systems with multiple RAID adapters.
- Fix iprconfig RAID include bug for systems with multiple RAID adapters.
- Fix failing array add device due to race condition with iprinit.
- Fix iprconfig microcode download to ipr adapters.
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