Intel RMSP3CD080F RAID Module Trimode RAID Firmware 50.8.0-2857

Version Numbers:

- Current Package Details:
- Firmware Package: 50.8.0-2857 (MR 7.8p1)
- Firmware 5.080.00-2758
- MR PL 09.25.05.00
- ROMENV 1.12
- BootBlock 7.02.00.00-0021
- NVDATA 5.0800.04-0005
- UEFI_Driver 0x07080401 (SIGNED)
- Hii v07.08.05.00 (SIGNED)
- BIOS 7.08.02.0
- SBR: 5.0803.04-0407

Firmware Changes:

SCGCQ02011203 - Controller Fatal Error is observed when Guest OS is reset from host in VMware environment
SCGCQ02069532 - PFA condition was not detected
SCGCQ02097613 - Hotspare creation with smaller size disk doesnt throw any error
SCGCQ02208517 - Diag test fails
SCGCQ02017502 - When drive is pulled keep last valid slot number in Events Generated. This was introduced with changesets SCGCQ01520443 and SCGCQ01584278
SCGCQ02032483 - Un-Hide Drive Group is enabled after hiding a VD in HII
SCGCQ02044166 - Controller hang when MR is passthrough to the VM
SCGCQ02053681 - Avoid sending intercore request to copy core1 holding buffer every 10ms
SCGCQ02020100 - Unable to simulate bad flash with LB/LBP
SCGCQ02111647 - Data corruption found while running I/O's on 5 drive R5 vd with rebuild walk
SCGCQ02127010 - OS shutdown hangs due to Flush cache DCMD not completed
SCGCQ02206647 - Added prints and debug routine
SCGCQ02209125 - Initialize cache after diagnostics testing
SCGCQ02012425 - Handle SMART copy back failures and drive removals gracefully
SCGCQ02029933 - skip the link test if there is no qualifying pd attached
SCGCQ02034996 - PL Fault 00005853, while doing two copyback operations on lds with different block size.
SCGCQ02069166 - Controller no longer accessible after poweroff and poweron VMware virtual machine (VMware passthrough enabled)
SCGCQ02204725 - recon with PD in offline state following OCR may cause pin cache code to go into infinite loop
SCGCQ01838706 - Disable TransportReady In ICMR1
SCGCQ02201861 - Fix needed for NVME drives that identify with WriteUncorr=0 (puncturing not supported) when BadBlocks are injected on all drives and Rebuild is initiated
SCGCQ02203957 - SATA BBM not handled properly in Patrol Read
SCGCQ02203962 - Unterminated SGL is causing PL to reject cmd. Subsequent attempt to recover (through double buffering) causes FW to crash.
SCGCQ02035781 - ICMR1 With Storlibtest (OOB) TR can be enabled on VD's it should be disabled
SCGCQ02126178 - MR7.10-9480-8i8e: DC during Single Dip COL using Automation
SCGCQ02210912 - Controller asserted after issuing ONFI BBLIST RECLAIMALL cmd to clear full BBLIST; 0x80 entries.
SCGCQ02042675 - Fix the memory allocation issue for diag test
SCGCQ02201867 - Fix for looping behavior triggering repeated MR BIOS resets on injected error conditions by simulating NVCache HW part failure
SCGCQ01996044 - MegaRAID Event Log discards old Event Log across OCRs.
SCGCQ02007828 - Possibility of data loss due to abrupt/asynchronous warm reset
SCGCQ01906471 - unsupported completion timeout capabilities don't cause init failure
SCGCQ01904851 - Discovery may not complete, timeout on 94xx-8i HBA
SCGCQ01892105 - E40A fault if WRPROTECT or RDPROTECT is nonzero
SCGCQ01891238 - PCIe switch downstream virtual ports report SAS address of zero in SES page 0xA
SCGCQ01887433 - PLI control requests may return incorrect status when backend PCIe support is disabled
SCGCQ01886810 - NVMe I2C Backplane Detection fails on HBA connectors C2/C3 resulting in Slots not responding to LED updates
SCGCQ01886012 - link fails to come up after a surprise down
SCGCQ01870862 - port enable timeout and discovery failure with multiple VPP device configurations
SCGCQ01870842 - SAS/SATA devices not discovered with partial backplane configuration
SCGCQ01868375 - Fault 0x2805 encounter if one configures NVME and AutoPortEnable at the same time
SCGCQ01868009 - Fault 0xED22 seen on bootup
SCGCQ01859166 - Fault 0xECAD while issuing controller reset in Ex1 configuration
SCGCQ01858809 - Avoid PCIe reset request to FRU Port Descriptor unsupported PCIe drive types in DFC slots
SCGCQ01857152 - Handle partial PCIe Link configs for SFF TA 1005 UBM support
SCGCQ01856283 - CBB linker warns of overlapped sections
SCGCQ01850721 - MCTP: Fault 0x265D when packet with StartOfMsg is set and PktSeqCount is 1
SCGCQ01850593 - 0x7211 Fault hit with more than one Ux4 midplanes attached
SCGCQ01838839 - Immediately rm for cache offload when TTY log is set to be preserved
SCGCQ01849986 - Forcing rebuild of multiple drives while activity is occurring can have data misdirected to the wrong drive and hit an assertion.
SCGCQ01864432 - erroneous configurable PD count decrement
SCGCQ01870199 - Raid volume(using SED drives ) can not be secured after assigning multiple non-SED DHSP
SCGCQ01871037 - When checking the config sequence number mismatch, need to cover system PDs.
SCGCQ01871061 - Update NumberOfPciSwitches in pliRuntimeConfig at SOD
SCGCQ01873044 - erroneous configurable PD count decrement
SCGCQ01876232 - Unmap VD foreign import failure
SCGCQ01877036 - iMR global fault LED does not get lit up during fail or UBAD
SCGCQ01878300 - Fw downgrade from 7.8 to lower version that does not support unmap
SCGCQ01880124 - Disable debug queue support
SCGCQ01880847 - Hit PL Fault 00005862 LinkRegister 01439171 During CC With Triple Media Errors On R60 4K Drives
SCGCQ01884199 - FW downgrade blocking for JBOD personality used incorrect FW version number
SCGCQ01889215 - MR7.8 9480-8i8e: IO dropped on EPD during overnight cable pull/push
SCGCQ01889482 - MR_7.8:Driver unload and leave the system overnight, result to Assertion
SCGCQ01889717 - Unmap operation during init/recon/rebuild/copyback
SCGCQ01890070 - MR7.8-9460-16i: Controller Profile 14 still show SAS/SATA PDs
SCGCQ01890955 - Secure LD Creation with Dedicate Hot spare fails
SCGCQ01891177 - FW reports that the board passed BBU Retention test on boards that have a non operational ONFI NAND memory.
SCGCQ01893479 - On ESXi6.7U1 OS, With the IMR controller IOMMU fault is observed with the latest driver
SCGCQ01897779 - No profile reported when a bad (0-byte) drive is inserted
SCGCQ01902159 - MR7.8: Locate a UBad drive on SGPIO no LED blinking (Still stays as UBAD)
SCGCQ01906056 - Handle reentrancy of Snap dump creation & correct run time pinned cache snap dump handler
SCGCQ01906705 - Correct the Check Condition status reported by MR FW when a RAIDed slot behind a vSES device is accessed
SCGCQ01909346 - FW hang at POST because of continuous FW log print " parseMuError: VF 4 - FMU Error Status 0x00000000 "
SCGCQ01912560 - foreign import failed when sequence number mismatch
SCGCQ01915675 - At booting POST screen, boot message indicating exceeding disks limit of 138 devices but the actual count is only 48 in system
SCGCQ01915880 - Controller crashes when creating secured Vd using controller encryption option
SCGCQ01916098 - MR7.8 OEM: WT VD created on attempt to create WB VD
SCGCQ01918724 - Snapdump generation in KA scenario results to CPU 0 exception or hang condition
SCGCQ01921307 - MR FW asserted after copyback completed and the source drive was removed.
SCGCQ01922023 - Controller not responsive
SCGCQ01929759 - [MR 7.8] Recursive snapdump handling
SCGCQ01931954 - Discard the snapdump when a new firmware is flashed while there was a snap dump present.
SCGCQ01936961 - All NVMe LED (Good/Fault LED) lighted up after updating to PKG 1837
SCGCQ01937149 - Create Medium Error on NVME drive fail.
SCGCQ01934145 - vSES SES Page 0Ah may report same SAS address for two elements during hot remove/add of NVMe devices
SCGCQ01916779 - IOC init may fail with Host Page Size Invalid LogInfo on backend PCIe disabled FW
SCGCQ01899293 - Debug output contains multiple copies of the same information
SCGCQ01898852 - OEM SW Enclosure Amber LED stays on after reboot
SCGCQ01891340 - VRef training failures on some boards.
SCGCQ01878217 - PL: NVMe drives do not link up on non Ex4 backplane attached to an MR board
SCGCQ01876271 - SAS/SATA drives are not getting discovered with NVMe disabled firmware on both 9400-16iB0 and 9405W-16iB0
SCGCQ01864843 - Check in Revised Workaround for 0x5842 fault - Rx Dma Memory Overflow
SCGCQ01859095 - Mismatch between data coming from Page2 and PageA in vSES
SCGCQ01856306 - backend PCIe: ECD2 fault
SCGCQ01760839 - 8GB DDR ECC event logging issue
SCGCQ01816769 - Maintain integrity of Enclosure Diagnostic page status bits between MR FW internal monitoring routines and host reads
SCGCQ01848923 - Security property is always shown false for a DG when Secured VD is created via LSA in SLES 15
SCGCQ01874526 - Enable "supportClearSnapDump" API bit
SCGCQ01883439 - cache restoration failed
SCGCQ01884233 - Fix firmware parsing for Admin NVME pass through command with IOCStatus != success
SCGCQ01885194 - Only Detect 63 Drives in Mix mode enviroment (Total 64 PDs in the system)
SCGCQ01886840 - FW hit "failed element size check !! ... tail pointer 65535 exceeds max 255" while OCR and rebuilding in loop
SCGCQ01904051 - Handle missing changes of CSET(SCGCQ01318495): Test for 64+ drives per enclosure
SCGCQ01905234 - This change fixes Snapdump RTT Trace feature, by completing API change that came in after testing was completed.
SCGCQ01917645 - OPAL Support for NVME only
SCGCQ01921540 - application show "enable unmap" incorrectly
SCGCQ01928086 - With the IMR controller IOMMU fault is observed with the latest driver allow both RDPQ array or linear array.
SCGCQ01934945 - Firmware Tries to Double Free Resource Mid
SCGCQ01863348 - TM and IO Failure with NVMe Drives on PL 8.250.2.0
SCGCQ01877879 - DDF corruption after hibernation because of incorrect virtual address mappings
SCGCQ01931276 - Upto 17% performance drop observed on single drive R0 NVME drive setup
SCGCQ01920370 - host issued UNMAP cmd not handled properly when VD is offline
SCGCQ01973566 - SAS Drives Take a Long Time to Link Up and Are Not Discovered Correctly
SCGCQ01792416 - Add secure boot support
SCGCQ01871912 - Added new events for unmap policy changes
SCGCQ01864509 - NVRAM changes to store controller PCI slot and server serial number
SCGCQ01848759 - Added Support for Triggering SnapDump
SCGCQ01845275 - Add learn complete timestamp in NVRAM struct
SCGCQ01837670 - support to query multibit ecc error by storeliboob
SCGCQ01857308 - Changing LDBBM setting
SCGCQ01870855 - Unmap policy change in 7.8
SCGCQ01818505 - Implement MR FW support to capture Windows Driver log and add to SnapDump.
SCGCQ01819147 - Max IO size set same value as JBOD and Single drive R0
SCGCQ01867056 - New unmap policy
SCGCQ01851716 - Add support to identify the presence of the switch in 7.8
SCGCQ01985917 - Disable unmap feature on R5/6 only
SCGCQ01857051 - Attaching multiple PCIe switches may cause IOP memory corruption
SCGCQ01995099 - Number of slots for virtual SES is incorrect in StorCLI
SCGCQ01931043 - PL Fault 0x6001 occurred while running IOs + Task Management requests
SCGCQ01926166 - IO's can time-out after controller receives an unconfirmed response from a drive
SCGCQ01924984 - Add workaround for SATA drive not complaint with ACS-3
SCGCQ01906082 - Ux4 drives not discovered in Polling Mode with HFCx16 and x8
SCGCQ01891218 - Locate LED cannot be turned off after diag reset
SCGCQ01887446 - All Ux4 drives are not discovered in x8 or x16 HFC mode while hot-plugging
SCGCQ01876864 - 0x6004 Fault running TM only test
SCGCQ01873143 - Locate LED on SFF-TA-1005 Ux4 backplanes configured in x16 or x8 HFC emulation mode is not activated by storcli command
SCGCQ01837506 - Customer specific 3108 PCIe add-on card fails to come back while resuming from sleep state S3
SCGCQ01838008 - User unable to switch personality back after a blocked FW update with a pending personality change.
SCGCQ01849356 - Error restoring offloaded (single image controller) cache with pinned cache when power is pulled during the flush ( double dip scenario ).
SCGCQ01849505 - Line 535 in ../../raid/cachePreserve.c for trying to create Pinned Cache by Cable Pull.
SCGCQ01855150 - FW breaks into montask with exceptional core handling error
SCGCQ01862592 - Cryptographic erase operation is failing from Open Manage GUI
SCGCQ01866206 - dirty led not set on in case of supercap not present even though dirty cache is present
SCGCQ01868896 - Change the reserve field in structure mode param to follow spc4 spec
SCGCQ01875268 - Controller fail to be detected by BIOS and OS after FW downgrade MR73 with COL.
SCGCQ01876281 - Sotrlci Hide/Unhide command output display incorrect status
SCGCQ01876285 - MR_DCMD_OOB_STATUS_POLL doesn't return any events
SCGCQ01881150 - Controller can not correctly detected smart error SATA HDD.
SCGCQ01882466 - Unnecessary prints logging while issuing DCDB commands
SCGCQ01889448 - Implementation of Degraded media disablement is not working in eHBA mode.
SCGCQ01892583 - Error LED cannot stay long when drive pulled from VD.
SCGCQ01900924 - Exposing Write cache as disabled to host for a performance improvement
SCGCQ01911910 - FW can not inject Medium error into customer NVMes drive with big size of 4.0Tb
SCGCQ01914075 - Disable ONFI Flash backup of ttylog feature
SCGCQ01917764 - ONFI BBL reassignment: COL loop on power glitch during initial COL.
SCGCQ01917992 - iMR Controller crashes during IO DMA operation
SCGCQ01925570 - On UG bad PD removal and replaced with UG good PD, iMR allows Vd creation using 33 Pds
SCGCQ01932019 - Observed Fatal Firmware Error during SLES 12 O/S installation.
SCGCQ01944953 - Cannot be done initialize even if execute Full Initialize by using StorCli
SCGCQ01961977 - During drive spin up, drives come up as 0 bytes
SCGCQ01995096 - Data Abort Exception observed while running reboot test with a bad drive.
SCGCQ01983403 - additional robustness for hot reset during SAS cycle case
SCGCQ01961503 - (vSES) Injecting error on I2C channel of one connector module will cause LED of another connector module to not work.
SCGCQ01941125 - Use full Slot Cap Physical Slot Number field info for PCIe SW attached device slot enumeration
SCGCQ01918898 - SAS, SATA drives in UBM backplane(SFF-TA-1005) are not discovered when PCIe support is disabled
SCGCQ01907168 - Locate LED cannot be turned off after diag reset for few drives on Ex1
SCGCQ01867241 - IF “MODE F” successful, then without reboot/OCR application is not showing the updated drive firmware version.
SCGCQ01873090 - Assertion is hit during region lock release due to inconsistent region lock promotion related variables
SCGCQ01875086 - BIOS Handshake breaks Manufacturing Environment, need change in TTY and/or add timeout in FW for BIOS Handshake
SCGCQ01886610 - 9440-8i / 9460-16i cards BCA_S LED state doesn't match with BCA-S LED Behavior Rule.
SCGCQ01886615 - CIT: Same EID assigned to 2 controllers
SCGCQ01886617 - Same EID assigned to 2 controllers
SCGCQ01889455 - Remove BAIL OUT message for successful partial vd creation command
SCGCQ01891918 - PD Operations like PD clear and Cryptographic Erase not blocked during personality switch in pending
SCGCQ01907155 - Can't import foreign config (2 pd R0 split across 2 pcie switches) after powering switch back on
SCGCQ01915560 - Cached Discarded during boot
SCGCQ01920135 - Incorrect clearing of GUID to target ID map table during EPD creation
SCGCQ01921441 - MR fw doesn't report that SAS_SATA 6 G and 3G capability
SCGCQ01925038 - Fw hit drvspinup.c when wake up from hibernation
SCGCQ01965351 - 9460-8i:"Other Error Count" of drives increase when running dd test
SCGCQ01988162 - Incorrect checks for LD invalid cases during IO processing caused data abort
SCGCQ01967743 - SATA: IO Timeouts with Read/Write and Non-Automated IO
SCGCQ01942971 - 0x6001 Fault while running IOs and doing cable pulls
SCGCQ01906462 - [vSES] Vendor ID and Product ID of Configuration diagnostic page uses hardcoded values.
SCGCQ01893314 - Incorrect vSES Data for Page 0x02 After Storcli Start & Stop Locate Operations for certain NVME Backplanes.
SCGCQ01883332 - pl: vSES reports incorrect product revision level in SES page 1
SCGCQ01872931 - Fault 4311 when running repeated controller resets
SCGCQ01846010 - support to query multibit ecc error by storeliboob
SCGCQ01824831 - Add maintenance code to avoid incorrect addition of code that can cause MR firmware hang.
SCGCQ01851700 - VD enumeration not consistent in Foreign preview menu in eHBA personality mode.
SCGCQ01862595 - GUID target ID map table is Invalidated on Insertion of off-lined drives
SCGCQ01876112 - Raid LD tgtId does not persist through OCR
SCGCQ01957294 - Often on PD insert PD Fault is asserted,de-asserted
SCGCQ01855060 - Fix BST Scripts to Account for New Allowed UART Logs
SCGCQ01935118 - Hit PL Fault 00005862 LinkRegister 01439171 During CC With Triple Media Errors On R60 4K Drives
SCGCQ01995232 - vSES: CRIT or NON CRIT bits in Enclosure Status Diagnostic page are never set.
SCGCQ01988181 - Data Abort Exception on abrupt powerloss/reset when flushing events from NVRAM hold buffer to flash
SCGCQ01983381 - Firmware Takes a Long Time to Grant Spinup to Some Drives/Phys
SCGCQ01972786 - Customer specific back plane not detected in the latest code phase
SCGCQ01944367 - (NVME) Fw Fault (faultcode 0xEC56) hit while performing system reboot test with NVMe drives attached.
SCGCQ01943907 - Firmware hits Kill Adapter when create/initialize R0 VD using 4k drive.

NVDATA Changes:

Miscellaneous changes for various products

Hii Changes:

SCGCQ01890540 - HII allows user to enter 41 alphanumeric characters as activation key instead of 40
SCGCQ01902176 - Unable to manually create an NVMe VD from HII BIOS using (9460-8i)
SCGCQ01874659 - Add new error code for UNMAP
SCGCQ01891725 - HII shows incorrect value (NA) for Fan in hardware components under basic hardware status.
SCGCQ01891488 - Inconsistent Fan status seen in HII under View Enclosure status when two enclosures connected.
SCGCQ01876262 - Help string is missing for Enter Security Key For Locked Drives and Add /s unit for MR_PD_SPEED_PCIE
SCGCQ01897268 - HII - Strip size is displayed as segment size in Virtual drive properties.
SCGCQ01735505 - Implement support for Pass-thru commands for NVME devices in Pre-Boot environment
SCGCQ01803319 - Unmap: Define new events for enhanced UNMAP support [MR7.8]
SCGCQ01868434 - Change the Firmware Name Field in the Inventory data
SCGCQ01797424 - Including The Time Stamp for every Snap Dump created in the firmware.
SCGCQ01869868 - UNMAP SAS/SATA feature - Mixing PDs
SCGCQ01823919 - Support UNMAP/TRIM/WRITESAME for SAS/SATA PDs with R5/6 configurations
SCGCQ01818155 - UEFI reports boot drivers issue on every bootup
SCGCQ01856123 - Profile based LD creation thrown error from HII
SCGCQ01917148 - Customize 4K and 512B mixing error string and add help string for Current Drive Security Mode
SCGCQ01917085 - HII does not notify user regarding the OS/FS on trying to delete a single JBOD drive
SCGCQ01798986 - “Suggest Security Key” Function corrupts the “Existing Key” when trying to change security key
SCGCQ01807627 - HII Secure Virtual Disk option help incorrectly states it should be selected by default when a passphrase is configured
SCGCQ01830856 - HII does not report error when creating a VD with both NVMe and SAS drives selected
SCGCQ01835613 - showing PD contains a OS/FS on a non-selected PD when converting from Non-RAID to UGood.
SCGCQ01835619 - Not able to save controller events in HII
SCGCQ01874658 - HII: The drives are not sorted based on connector name
SCGCQ01830843 - HII - Converting UGood to EPD has warning message about data on the Non-RAID disk.
SCGCQ01849748 - HII does not notify the user on selecting individual JBODs having Filesystem/ OS
SCGCQ01873518 - Check all does not select all drives that are in JBOD state while creating VD using 'create virtual drive' option
SCGCQ01917142 - During reconnect, ASSERT and RSOD occured
SCGCQ01807671 - HII PD Management: EPD-PTs named as Non-RAID instead of 'Non-RAID Disk'
SCGCQ01808677 - HII: Rename 'Secure Erase' to 'Cryptographic Erase'
SCGCQ01808685 - UEFI BlockIOProtocol SCT test fails with "Read block with invalid LBA parameter" failure when EPDs are present
SCGCQ01824016 - HII - PDs for Non-supported VDs are showing under the "Physical Disks Included after foreign configuration import" subtitle.
SCGCQ01827411 - HII does not allow to change the personality from Raid to JBOD
SCGCQ01835617 - HII - PD menu not auto updating after converting a UGood drive to Non-RAID.
SCGCQ01849205 - HII: Support UDK2017 AARCH64
SCGCQ01855631 - HII is not displaying the same PDs with an OS/FS present when converting to RAID Capable
SCGCQ01874605 - In BIOS HII page 16-byte model number of SATA drives not full model number is displayed.
SCGCQ01851640 - HII - The Disable Security warning should use "cryptographically erased" instead of "securely erased".
SCGCQ01807672 - HII: Controller Mode and Requested Mode displayed on the Adv Ctrl Mgmt page instead of Manage Controller Mode page
SCGCQ01849032 - HII: correct the grayout condition to change profile
SCGCQ01804182 - Default Profile in HII reports Yes for Profile 10
SCGCQ01808664 - Change warning message for converting UG to JBOD and vice versa + correct few other string problems
SCGCQ01818098 - Remove Unmap enable/disable option for EPD Drives
SCGCQ01830853 - HII does not exclude virtual drives when scheduling consistency check
SCGCQ01851505 - HII - Incorrectly showing a OS/FS on a non-selected PD when converting from Non-RAID to UGood.

BIOS Changes:

SCGCQ01806553 - JBOD handled message is displayed twice in JBOD mode
SCGCQ01837611 - In Legacy BIOS Post battery shows "Optimal" while the battery is not connected.
SCGCQ01765520 - "The Controller is in Cached Drive Drive mode." message shown in the legacy boot POST
SCGCQ01807610 - OpROM POST displays incomplete string "No Adapter" when controller hits fault condition
SCGCQ01835626 - When Option ROM is enabled in System BIOS, behavior is unexpected

UEFI shell instructions for updating RAID Firmware:
- Download and extract all files to a USB flash drive.
- Boot the target system to EFI shell.
- Change directory to the local drive and directory containing the flash update files and the firmware image file.
- Type the name of the .nsh file matching the controller to update (e.g. "RMSP3HD080E.nsh" and press to execute the command
- The storcli command line in the .nsh command will default to the first logical RAID contoller ("/c0"). If this there are multiple controllers, the value of controller parameter ("/Cx") will need to be modified to match the specific controller intended for update.
- Wait for the flash to complete. Do NOT reboot the system during the update.
- You can also use RAID Web Console 3 or OS version of StorCLI to update the RAID firmware. For more detail, please refer to the Intel RAID Software User's Guide.

Attention!

- Intel recommends to loading Factory Default setting after the firmware upgrade which will not affect data on any existing array.
- Reboot the system and login to the RAID BIOS Console.
- Select the controller and select 'Adapter Properties'->'Next'
- Set the 'Set Factory Defaults' setting to 'Yes' and submit the change.
- Reboot the system (the default settings are applied).
- Re-configure to the desired settings in RAID Web Console3.

Firmware downgrade notice

- Intel does not recommend to downgrade the factory installed firmware on your RAID module or controller, it has important enhancements and bug fixes you may lose when going to a previous version.
- If you need to install an older firmware version, please contact Intel for instructions on how to perform this action.

About Firmware Updates:

Applying a newer firmware version than the one already installed on your unit can bring various enhancements, include workarounds for diverse problems encountered by the device, and improve or add newly developed features.

On the other hand, downgrading the firmware version can recover the device's functionality in the event of a software update either turning up faulty or causing the unit's overall performance to drop. However, bear in mind that applying an older firmware isn't recommended and might not always be possible.

When it comes to the update steps, due to the large variety of devices and numerous ways for installing a new firmware, it is recommended that you carefully read and understand the upgrade steps, and consider applying a different firmware only when you have familiarized yourself with the update method.

As the installation process is most of the times quite risky, this step should be taken by users that have the ability to successfully complete the update; regular users may initiate it at their own risk. Moreover, it's best that this task be performed in a steady power environment such as the one ensured by a UPS unit.

Therefore, if you consider applying this release, hit the download button, take into account all the aforementioned aspects, and update the device's firmware. Also make sure you constantly check with our website to ensure that you don't miss a single new release.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.