Firmware update for PERC 3/QC, PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.0 Introduction

2.0 Contents of the Kit

3.0 Performing the Firmware Upgrade

4.0 Change History

5.0 Known Limitations
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1.0   Introduction
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This firmware update delivers bug fixes and enhancements for 
the on-board PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4/Di.

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2.0   Contents of the Kit
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This kit contains following files,
 201DELL.ROM
 PFLASH.EXE

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3.0 Performing the Firmware Upgrade
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This program creates a bootable diskette to upgrade the firmware 
of the controllers.  You will need a formatted 3 1/2 inch floppy 
diskette for the following procedure.
 
1) Download the file to a directory on your hard drive. The 
   file downloaded is a self extracting executable.
2) Double click on the file to run the executable.
3) Click on the setup button.
4) Follow the on screen instructions to create the firmware 
   update diskette.
5) To perform the upgrade, boot using this diskette.

pflash.exe will get executed automatically and will report 
existing code level and prompt you to reconfirm before starting 
the firmware upgrade process.

To do this process in non-interactive mode please execute,
  pflash /?
and read about possible command line switches.

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4.0 Change History
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Component               Current ver         Previous version
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Firmware		2.01		    2.00
BIOS			1.01		    1.01
Ctrl-M			5.52		    5.52
BootBlock		1.5.6Dell	    1.5.5Dell
MPT SCSI firmware       01.00.00.00         01.00.00.00
WebBIOS			1.49	    	    1.49

Firmware Bug Fixes:
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1. During heavy I/O on ultra 320 drives (with or without rebuild going 
   ON), lot of drives were dropping off. When a SCSI bus reset occurs, 
   the RAID f/w now fails only those drives which are misbehaving thus 
   by not dropping of the other drives.

Firmware Enhancements
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BIOS Enhancements
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Ctrl-M Changes
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WebBIOS Bug Fixes
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5.0 Known Limitations
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Firmware upgrade while controller is doing background I/O task
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Firmware upgrade process will fail if any background I/O task 
(i.e. RAID-5 background consistency check or power on auto-resume 
rebuild and reconstruction) is being performed.  

The program will stop at the "Flash Download" screen with the 
following message: 

"Warning: Firmware download is in progress. Do not reboot the system. 
It may cause corruption of flash or host adapter configuration".

Firmware and configuration on the adapter will not be modified by the 
program. A reboot can be performed to return to the Operating System. 
Wait until the background task completes before updating the firmware.