Oracle^® Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card and Oracle 3.2 TB NVMe SSD Product Notes Release 1.3

Minimum Supported Card Firmware Version

The Oracle Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card runs with the minimum required firmware package listed below:

Summary of Changes in SW 1.3 Firmware KPYAIR3Q Release

The following improvements and changes are included in SW 1.3 firmware KPYAIR3Q release of the Oracle 3.2 TB NVMe SSD:

• For known issues, Known Issues.

• Issues fixed in KPYAIR3Q (BugId's fixed with this firmware update are listed below.)

  • CR 23331860: Early life customer failure with controller device not ready, aborted I/O

  • CR 25659092: Early life customer failure with controller device not ready, aborted I/O, with CS3.3.1

  • CR 25138105: Flash I/O abort and recovery, but cell failed for poor performance

  • CR 25415323: F320 Device not ready; aborting reset - reboot did not recover

  • Randomized Seed Table Corruption

  • Command pending issue when chunk size is larger than MDTS.

  • Wrong drive status when format is rejected by reset.

  • Format command pending when multiple format came during IO command.

  • Do not check open failure when FW is activated by Controller Reset.

  • CR 25993898: CS3.3.1 data corruption

  • CR 22869779: Namespace not Ready on Get Log SMART/Health Page during Power Cycle

• Enhancement: Device Recovery Failure Protocol (with Hardware Reset)

• There have been many fixes in this latest firmware release in order to increase quality and stability of the F320 PCIe Card and 3.2 TB NVMe SSD. For a list of fixed issues, refer to the readme. Recommend users update to the new firmware as soon as possible.

• The SW1.3, KPYAIR3Q.bin, package includes the firmware file and associated metadata.xml files that automate the update process. Once the device has been upgraded, you cannot down grade to an earlier firmware. It is locked to protect the device from regressing to known issues.

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  Note -  Reformat the drive after the firmware update. Recommend to wipe the user data where feasible with the update because drives with already corrupted metadata that may be slowly failing under CS3.3.1 are remediated by the format and update, and would otherwise fail more quickly on update to CS3.6.

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Summary of Changes in SW 1.2 Firmware KPYAGR3Q Release

The following improvements and changes are included in SW 1.2 firmware KPYAGR3Q release of the Oracle 3.2 TB NVMe SSD:

• For known issues, see Known Issues.

  • Issues 23307921 and 23537941 – Enhancement of NVMe Driver NVMe Device Handling to Prevent I/O Timeouts

  • Issue 24305796 – nvmeadm getlog -s Command Initiates Panic on SPARC M7 Series Servers

Summary of Changes in SW 1.0.1 Firmware KPYABR3Q Release

The following improvements/changes are included in SW 1.0.1 firmware CS2.9 KPYABR3Q release of the Oracle Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card:

• The CS2.9_KPYABR3Q firmware version additionally supports SPARC S7 series servers, SPARC T7 series servers, SPARC M7 series servers, and Fujitsu M10 series servers.

• The CS2.6 KPYA8R3Q firmware version supports Oracle Server X6-2, Oracle Server X6-2L, Oracle Server X5-4, and Oracle Server X5-8.

• For known issues, see Known Issues.

  • Issue 22893868 - Enhancement of backend RAID recovery to avoid timeouts

  • Issue 23100303 - Performance improvements

• If you install the Oracle Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card as an x-option on a SPARC system, you must update the firmware from CS2.6 to CS2.9, or a subsequent release if available. Servers ordered with this option already have the updated firmware.