This README file contains the latest information about the IBM TotalStorage™ 
DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.03.xx for the 
DS4100 with Standard (base) option, the DS4300 with Standard (base) or Turbo 
options, the DS4400 and the DS4500 storage disk systems only. DO NOT download 
this controller firmware on any other DS4000 storage disk system models.
 
ATTENTION: BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH 
STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 
06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST 
BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. See Section 3.0 
Installation and Setup Instructions for more information.

Refer to the IBM TotalStorage™ Support Web Site or CD for the IBM DS4000 
Storage Manager version 9 (Intel or Unix Operating Systems) Installation 
and Support Guides for firmware and NVSRAM download instructions.

For other related publications (refer to Related Publications in the 
installation and support guide) and the latest information and updated 
readme file.

Last Update:  05/11/2005

Products Supported: 

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   | New Model  | Old Model | Machine Type |     Model              |
   |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------|
   |  DS4500    | FAStT 900 |     1742     | 90X, 90U               |
   |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------|
   |  DS4400    | FAStT 700 |     1742     | 1RX, 1RU               |
   |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------|
   | DS4300     | FAStT 600 |     1722     | 60U, 60X               |
   | Standard   |           |              | (Base or Turbo         |
   | or Turbo   |           |              |  option)               |
   |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------|
   |  DS4100    | FAStT 100 |     1724     | 100                    |
   | Standard   |           |              | (Base Option)          |
    ----------------------------------------------------------------

Notes: 
  1. The DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx 
     with its associated NVSRAM file ARE NOT AVAILABLE for the following 
     DS4000 storage disk systems - DS4100 with Single Controller option (M/T 
     1724-1SC), FAStT200 (M/T 3542-all models), FAStT500 ( M/T 3552-all 
     models) and DS4300 with Single Controller option (M/T 1722 models 6LU, 
     6LX). Please contact your IBM service representative or IBM resellers 
     for availability of additional DS4000 storage disk system models support 
     with controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx in the future. 
  
  2. For the DS4100 storage disk systems with Single Controller option, the 
     controller firmware version 05.42.xx.xx and its associated NVSRAM file 
     must be used. Do not attempt to download the controller firmware 
     version 06.1x.xx.xx into these DS4100 storage disk system with single 
     controller option models.
     
  3. For the DS4300 storage disk systems with Single Controller option, the 
     controller firmware version 05.34.xx.xx and its associated NVSRAM file 
     must be used. Do not attempt to download the controller firmware 
     version 06.1x.xx.xx into these DS4300 storage disk system with single
     controller option models.                           



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CONTENTS
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1.0  Overview
2.0  Change History
3.0  Installation and Setup Instructions
4.0  Configuration Information
5.0  Unattended Mode
6.0  Web Sites and Support Phone Number
7.0  Trademarks and Notices
8.0  Disclaimer


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1.0   Overview
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   The IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000 Storage disk system controller firmware 
   version 06.12.03.xx release includes the DS4000 Storage disk system 
   controller firmware and NVSRAM files for upgrading the following 
   IBM machine types - 1724 with standard (base) option (model 100), 1722 
   with Standard (base) or Turbo options (models 60X and 60U) and 1742 (all 
   models).
   
   The IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and 
   Support Guide for Windows 2000/Server 2003, Netware, ESX Server, and 
   Linux or the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 
   Installation and Support Guide for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux on 
   Power are available on IBM's Support Web Site as a downloadable 
   Portable Document Format (PDF) file. 

   In addition, the DS4000 FC/SATA intermix premium features and the 
   DS4000 Copy Services premium features - FlashCopy, VolumeCopy and 
   Enhanced Remote Mirroring - are options purchased separately. The Copy 
   Services premium features require a minimum level of DS4000 Storage 
   disk system controller 
   firmware installed.

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   | Premium Feature          | Required controller firmware version  | 
   |--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
   | FlashCopy                | 05.00.04.xx or higher                 |
   |--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
   | VolumeCopy               | 05.40.xx.xx or higher                 |
   |--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
   | Enhanced Remote Mirror   | 06.10.0x.xx or higher                 |
   |------------------------------------------------------------------|
   | FC/SATA intermix         | 06.10.0x.xx or higher                 |
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   The DS4000 Storage partitioning premium feature is standard on all IBM 
   DS4000 storage subsystems with the exception of the IBM DS4100 
   (machine type 1724 with Standard or Single Controller options) and the 
   DS4300 (machine type 1722 with Standard or Single Controller options) 
   storage subsystems. Please contact IBM Marketing representatives or 
   IBM resellers if you want to purchase the IBM DS4000 Storage 
   partitioning premium feature option for it. The Turbo option of the 
   IBM DS4300 is shipped with the IBM DS4000 Storage partitioning premium 
   feature enabled (8 partitions).

   The DS4000 Storage Controller firmware 06.12.xx.xx for this release is 
   available for the IBM machine types 1724-100 (DS4100 with standard/base 
   option), 1722-60X/60U (DS4300 with Standard/base or Turbo option), 1742-
   1RX/1RU and 1742-90X/90U (DS4400 and DS4500) only. The DS4000 Storage 
   Controller firmware 06.12.xx.xx for this release is not available for IBM 
   machine types 3542, 3552, 1724-1SC (DS4100 with Single controller option) 
   or 1722-6LX/6LU (DS4300 with Single controller option). However, the IBM 
   DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12 host software for this release will manage all 
   DS4000 Storage disk system with the controller firmware 04.01.xx.xx 
   (05.xx.xx.xx in Microsoft Windows environment) or newer. But, any new 
   features and updates that are introduced in this DS4000 Storage Manager 
   version 9.12 will not be available for any DS4000 Storage disk system 
   controllers without the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed.

   Refer to the IBM Support Web Site for the latest Firmware and NVSRAM 
   files and DS4000 Storage Manager host software for the IBM DS4000 
   Storage Subsystems.
   
   http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/

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1.1  Limitations
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IMPORTANT:
The listed limitations are cumulative. However, they are listed by the 
DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware and Storage Manager host 
software releases to indicate which controller firmware and Storage 
Manager host software release that they were first seen and documented. 


New limitations with version 06.12.03.xx release

1. ATTENTION: BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH 
   STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 
   06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST 
   BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. If this NVSRAM version 
   is not loaded into the DS4100 storage subsystem first before the loading 
   of the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx, hard drive(s) might be 
   locked out as uncertified drives, causing defined arrays/logical drives to 
   degrade or fail. See Section 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions for 
   more DS4100 storage subsystem controller firmware upgrading information.

2. Do not cut and paste the information in the DS4000 Storage Manager 
   online help into the DS4000 Storage Manager script command window or 
   into the text file that will be used as input for the SMcli script 
   engine. Extra space may be inserted in the required parameter names 
   which will cause error(s) during the script command execution. (267873)

3. In the configuration that have both SATA-technology drives (EXP100) 
   and Fibre-Channel technology drives (EXP700/EXP710/DS4100) behind the 
   same DS4000 storage disk system, do not download drives firmware to both 
   SATA-technology drives and Fibre-Channel(FC) technology drives at the 
   same time. Download the drive firmware to drives of a single drive 
   technology (either SATA or FC) at a time.
    
4. Currently, IBM does not support Gold key Premium Feature as a chargeable
   upgrade. The Gold key Premium Feature is enable or disable depending 
   on the DS4000 storage disk system models.

5. The Asynchronous Remote Mirroring utility, asyncRVMUtil, is not
   supported. This utility is used to automatically synchronize the 
   logical drives in the Remote Mirroring pairs. Please contact IBM 
   representatives or resellers for the support of this utility in the 
   future.


New limitations with version 06.10.11.xx release
     
1. In MSCS configurations, the MSCS service must be stopped and set to 
   manual start after server rebooting, the clusdisk driver must have to 
   be set to offline and, then, the server must be rebooted before 
   uninstalling the RDAC driver in the server. If the clusdisk driver is 
   not set to offline and the MSCS service is not set to manual start, 
   the MS cluster service will not start after the new RDAC driver is 
   installed because it can not bring the Quorum disk resource online. 
   The problem is caused by the changing of the disk signatures. The 
   work around is stated in the first sentence of this paragraph.
    
   To recover from this problem, you must:
     
   1. Look up the old disk signatures of the disk that are defined as
      cluster disk resources. They could be found either in the registry 
      under the 
      HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Clusdisk/Parameters/Signatures
      registry key or in the cluster.log file.
   2. Look up the new disk signatures of the disks that are defined as 
      cluster disk resources using the dumpcfg utility that is packaged
      in the Microsoft Windows resource kit. 
   3. Compare the new and old disk signatures. If new disk signature did
      not match the old signature, you have to change the new disk 
      signature to the old disk signature values by using the dumpcfg 
      command. The syntax of the command is 
       
      dumpcfg.exe -s <old-signature> <Disk#>     

      For example,  dumpcfg.exe -s 12345678 0 

2. Before updating the RDAC driver in a server that is setting up as 
   San-boot, one of the two Fibre Channel (FC) cables that are connected 
   to the server must be disconnected. The server will bluescreened 
   during the reboot after the un-installation of the RDAC driver if one 
   of the FC cables was not removed. (258127 - PR 82146)

3. Do not update the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware to 
   version 06.1x.xx.xx from versions 05.4x.xx.xx or earlier if the 
   EXP700 ESM firmware of the attached exp700 was not at 9326 or newer. 
   If the EXP700 ESM firmware is earlier than the 9326 versions, the 
   EXP700 enclosure and the installed drives may not be displayed in 
   the DS4000 subsystem management window after the controller firmware 
   is upgraded to 06.1x.xx.xx version. The work around is to update the 
   EXP700 ESM firmware to the 9326 version first before upgrading the 
   controller firmware to version 06.1x.xx.xx. (260160 - pr 82841)
    
4. When connecting the EXP100 drive expansion enclosures, one must set the
   single digit (X1) of the enclosure ID to unique values. This is to 
   prevent the possibility that one of the drives in the EXP100 
   enclosures be assigned the same ALPA as the DS4000 controller blade 
   under certain DS4000 storage subsystem reboot scenarios. (261188)


New limitations with version 06.10.06.xx release

1. The DS4000 Copy Service RVM is not supported at this time for the
   DS4100 and the DS4300 storage disk system with Standard or Single 
   Controller options.
 
2. In the Storage Manager version 9 client Subsystem Management window, 
   the preferred owner of a defined logical drive can not be changed if 
   the  logical drive is not managed by the preferred owner/controller. 
   The Storage Manager client will grey-out (not allowing one to select) 
   the controller that is currently managing the logical drive in the 
   selection of the new preferred owner/controller. One is allowed to 
   only select the controller that is not managing the logical to be the 
   new preferred owner. There is no work-around.
    
3. Concurrent firmware download (downloading firmware/NVSRAM to the DS4000 
   storage disk system controllers with IOs to the host servers) is not 
   supported when upgrading the controller firmware from a 05.xx.xx.xx 
   version to a 06.1x.xx.xx version. ALL IOs must be stopped during the 
   version 06.1x.xx.xx controller firmware upgrade from a 05.xx.xx.xx
   version. 
    
4. Do not pull or insert drives during the drive firmware download. 
   In addition, ALL IOs must also be stopped during the drive firmware 
   download. Otherwise, drives may be shown as missing, unavailable or 
   failed. 
    
5. Controller diagnostics will not run in a DS4000 Storage disk system
   with single controller.
    
6. When instructed to remove and reinsert or to replace a hard drive, wait
   at least 70 seconds before inserting either the removed existing drive 
   or the new drive into the drive slot. Then, wait up to 3 minutes for the 
   drive to be spined up, recognized by the DS4000 storage subsystem and 
   displayed in the Subsystem Management window before repeating the 
   process for another hard drive. There is no work-around.
   
   Similarly, wait at least 70 seconds before reinserting either the 
   removed existing ESM module or the new ESM module into the empty ESM 
   slot in the EXP drive expansion enclosure. Then, wait up to 3 minutes 
   for the ESM CRU to be recognized by the DS4000 storage subsystem and 
   displayed in the Subsystem Management window before repeating the 
   process for another ESM. There is no work-around.

7. Staged firmware and NVSRAM download function is not available on the
   DS4400 (machine type 1742) models with firmware 06.1x.00.00 in 
   conjunction with IBM Storage Manager 09.1x.xx.xx.
     


Limitations with Storage Manager version 8.4x.xx.xx (and earlier) and
DS4000 controller firmware version 05.4x.xx.xx (and earlier) releases

1. Auto LUN/Array Transfer is not enable for IBM AIX and SUN Solaris OS's.
   If a controller fails over arrays to the alternate controller and the 
   failed controller is replaced and brought back online, the arrays do 
   not automatically transfer to the preferred controller. This must be 
   done manually by selecting the redistributing arrays menu option in 
   the storage subsystem window of the IBM DS4000 Storage manager client 
   program.

2. You must use the Add/Remove program function in the Control Panel 
   window to uninstall or to disable the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC 
   device. To re-install the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC device, 
   follow the instructions in the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 
   Installation and Support Guide for Windows 2000/Server 2003, 
   Netware, ESX Server, and Linux.  

3. You must always uninstall IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC before 
   you uninstall the Host Bus Adapter driver. Failure to do so may 
   result in system hung or blue-screen.  
                       
4. When creating a Remote Mirror of a base logical drive, in the 
   case where a FlashCopy of the base logical drive has already
   been created, the following restriction applies. If the Remote 
   Mirror relationship is created while the base logical drive is
   receiving I/O, the FlashCopy logical drive will be failed. The 
   work around is to quiesce I/O to the base logical drive while you 
   are creating the remote mirror relationship. Alternatively, if the
   Remote Mirror relationship is created before creating the FlashCopy
   logical drive, the FlashCopy logical drive will not be failed. 

5. When alternately switching back and forth the roles of the logical
   drives in a remote mirrored relationship, Windows NT4, Windows 2000
   and Server 2003 may cache the file(s) on the logical drive(disk) in
   memory  and use these cached data instead of going out to the disk
   to get the data. This windows OS behavior may make the data look like
   it was not synchronized between logical drives in a remote mirrored
   relationship. The fix to the problem is to dismount the primary
   logical drive in the server before demoting it to secondary role. 
   In Microsoft Windows environment, this is best done by shutting down 
   the server that the primary logical drive is mapped to. Then, 
   promote the secondary logical drive to the primary role and hot_add
   it to the appropriate server.
    
   If the logical drive is of "Dynamic Disk" type, there is a possible
   solution without requiring server to be shut down. First, in the 
   server that has the primary logical drive, run the SMrepassist 
   program in the DS4000 Storage Manager 8.xx/9.xx util directory with the 
   -f option to flush the cached data to disk. Then, promote the 
   secondary logical drive and hot_add it to the appropriate server.
   Before promoting the logical drive to primary role in the original
   server, force a failure to the disk, for example, by running a chkdsk
   on the disk. Then, promote the logical drive to primary role
   in the original server and hot_add it. One may have to reactivate
   the disk after it is hot_added to the server.
   
   If the server environment prevents the server from being
   rebooted and the logical drive is of "basic disk" type, you may
   use the following steps 

   1. In the server that has the primary logical drive, run the 
      SMrepassist program in the DS4000 Storage Manager 8.3x
      util directory with the -f option to flush the cached data
      to disk.
   2. Using the DS4000 Storage Manager to remove the LUN mapping 
      of the logical drive that had the primary role from its
      server (host computer). 
   3. Promote the secondary role LUN to the primary role and 
      hot_add it in the appropriate server assuming that the LUN  
      mapping is already defined for this server in the DS4000 
      storage subsystem.
   4. Before promoting the logical drive to primary role in the 
      original server, run Hot_add program or initiate a Scan for
      Hardware Changes task in the original server. This is to
      remove the logical drive from the available disks. In W2K,
      you may see Unsafe Removal of Devices messages.
   5. Using the DS4000 Storage Manager to add the LUN mapping of 
      the logical drive that will be promoted to primary role to 
      the original server(host computer). 
   6. Promote the Logical Drive to Primary role and hot_add it in
      the original server. If you are unable to hot_add the logical
      drive or the data still appears to be mismatched, you must 
      reboot the server.  

6. When the DS4000 Storage subsystem controller firmware is upgraded 
   from any version 05.00.xx.xx or earlier to version 05.2x.xx.xx or 
   later, all of the Windows 2000 servers that had LUNs mapped in this
   storage subsystem must be rebooted after the new DS4000 Storage 
   subsystem controller firmware and NVSRAM are successfully applied. 
   The reason is that when the new DS4000 Storage subsystem controller 
   firmware is installed, the controller returns the first four bytes
   of the firmware revision in the Product Revision field of the SCSI
   LUN inquiry data. Windows 2000 uses the Product Revision data as 
   part of the LUN identification. So, as the Product Revision data 
   changes due to the new firmware revision level, Windows 2000 
   thinks that the LUNs with the old Product Revision data were 
   removed from the server. When the 'scan for hardware changes' task
   is executed by running the DS4000 Storage manager hot_add utility
   or by selecting the Scan For Hardware Changes menu option of the 
   Devices folder in the Computer Management window, Windows 2000
   displays Unsafe Removal of Devices dialogs for these LUNs. The
   devices in these dialogs are RDAC Virtual Disks and xxxx SCSI 
   devices where xxxx are either 1742, 3552 or 3542 depending on the
   model type of  DS4000 Storage disk system(s) that the Windows 2000 
   server had LUNs mapped from. The Windows 2000 server will lose 
   connectivity to the LUNs in the DS4000 Storage that has firmware
   updated. The server must be scanned again for hardware changes. If
   the logical drives are not added back to the server, one must 
   reboot the server to reconnect to the logical drives. 
   This problem will not occur when upgrading the DS4000 Storage 
   subsystem controller firmware from version 05.20.xx.xx to version
   05.3x.xx.xx or later because the product revision data field was 
   fixed at 0520.

7. When the server HBA ports are directly connected to the DS4000 
   storage disk system controllers, do not download firmware and NVSRAM 
   files to the controllers with IOs being generated to the LUNs in 
   the DS4000 Storage disk system. There is no IOs restriction in SAN
   Fabric environment i.e. when the HBA port are connected to the DS4000
   storage disk system controller ports via Fibre Channel switches.
   
8. The supplied SMrepassist utility did not utilize Microsoft Volume
   Shadow Services APIs to quiesce the LUNs. Appropriate steps are 
   still need to shut down/quiesce the applications like MS Exchange
   and SQL Server before the FlashCopy logical drive can be made.

9. Uninstalling RDAC may cause Windows Dynamic disks to fail. After the
   new RDAC is installed and the server is rebooted, these disks must be 
   reactivated and Chkdsk must be run. The work-around is to stop the
   applications and remove the drive letters or the mount points to 
   these disks before uninstalling and reinstalling RDAC.
   
10. The current RDAC driver will coexist with Storport model driver as
    long as it is not the driver for the adapter that talks to the LUNs
    in the DS4000 Storage subsystems. Note: the current release drivers
    for all of the Fibre Channel host bus adapters that DS4000 storage
    disk systems support are based on the Scsiport model.
        
11. This following behavior applies for the direct Fibre Channel 
    connection setup between the DS4300 storage disk system host ports and
    the server HBA ports only. If all DS4300 host ports are occupied,
    the DS4300 event log may show "host-side data rate negotiation
    failed" error when the server is booted up, this is normal error 
    that were generated during the host rate negotiation routine inside 
    the DS4300 storage disk system.

12. In a direct Fibre Channel connection between the DS4000 storage 
    disk system and the HBAs in the host server, the system bluescreen
    may occur if the DS4000 storage disk system is powered off. The 
    work around is to power down the server first before powering down 
    the DS4000 storage disk system.   
       
13. Only logical drives that are configured as "Basic Disks" in the 
    Windows Disk Management folder can have FlashCopy made. The 
    FlashCopy of a logical drive configured as "Dynamic Disk" type
    will always be failed by the DS4000 storage disk system when it is 
    added to the host server.  

14. There is not an IA-64 version of the DS4000 Management Suite Java 
    (FAStT_MSJ). Use the 32-bit version of the FAStT Management Suite
    Java for the Windows Server 2003 64-bit edition. However, one
    should uninstall it once the diagnostic is completed. It could 
    cause the server to bluescreen in heavy IO loads.
    
15. Veritas DMP is not supported at this time in Windows operating 
    environment. Please contact IBM representatives or resellers 
    for the availability of support.

16. When managing the DS4000 storage disk systems with firmware version 
    05.3x.xx.xx, the Help window of the Subsystem Management window may
    not be displayed correctly the topics that are listed as result of 
    executing a full text search. 

17. When migrating array(s) from a dual controller DS4000 storage disk
    system to a single controller DS4000 storage disk system, you must 
    first set the preferred owner of the to-be-migrated array(s) to be 
    controller A before inserting it into the drive slots of a single 
    controller DS4000 storage disk system. Otherwise, the array(s) will 
    not be added to the single controller DS4000 storage disk system 
    correctly which might cause problems.

18. When managing a single controller DS4300 storage disk system model, 
    do not use the menu option - Configuration->Automatic... - in the 
    Subsystem Management window to create LUNs. You might not be able 
    to access or manage LUNs that are created this way.

19. After you replace a controller with a new controller in the single 
    controller models of DS4000 storage disk system, the premium features 
    become unauthorized and are out of compliance. Any premium features 
    not supported by the firmware of the new controller are unavailable. 
    The work-around is to upgrade the firmware in the new controller to 
    the same level as the removed controller and re-enable the premium 
    features using the key files that you were provided when the premium 
    feature was originally enabled. 
    
20. When you migrating drive Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) from multiple
    DS4000 storage disk systems into a single destination DS4000 storage 
    disk system, all of the drive CRUs from the same DS4000 storage disk 
    system should be moved as a ‘set’ into the new destination DS4000 storage 
    disk system. Before moving the next ‘set’ of drive CRUs, ensure that all 
    of the drive CRUs for a single ‘set’ have been moved to the 
    destination DS4000 storage disk system. If drive CRUs are not moved as a 
    ‘set’ to the destination DS4000 storage disk systems, the newly relocated 
    array may not appear in the Subsystem Management window.

21. Enclosure IDs may be listed incorrectly in the Subsystem Management 
    window, even if the Enclosure ID switch settings appear to be 
    correct. This is because of the physical design and movement of the 
    Enclosure ID switch, it is possible to leave the switch in a “dead 
    zone” between ID numbers, which will return an incorrect Enclosure ID 
    (this value is 0 in most cases) to the storage management software. 
    When setting the Enclosure ID, ensure that the switch has actuated 
    completely and has settled where the value is clearly visible in the 
    viewing window.
  
22. To download controller firmware, you must select the drive where the
    firmware is located. If the drive you select does not respond, the 
    File Selection dialog box will revert to the A: drive and display an 
    error message that drive A: is not ready if there are no media in 
    drive A:.

23. You must suspend all I/O while ESM firmware downloads if you select 
    multiple enclosures for downloading ESM firmware. If you select only
    one enclosure for download at a time, you can download ESM firmware
    with I/Os. However, IBM recommends that you suspend all I/O activity
    to perform firmware upgrades. 
    
    Furthermore, if the EXP100 ESM firmware version is 953x or earlier, 
    no IOs are allowed during the duration that the EXP100 ESMs are 
    being updated with new firmware, including clustering reservation 
    checking IOs. 

24. The DS4000 storage disk system when configured with the DS4000 EXP100 
    SATA Drive Expansion Unit is currently reporting a higher frequency 
    of informational events such as Destination Driver Events (DDEs) and 
    Fibre Channel link up/down events ... in the DS4000 Controller event 
    log compared to the DS4000 storage disk system configured with Fibre 
    Channel drives. Slower response times of SATA disk drives compared to 
    Fibre Channel disk drives cause higher I/O retries from the DS4000 
    storage disk system controllers, resulting in a greater number of 
    informational events logged. In addition, the number of information 
    events reported in the DS4000 storage disk system event log will 
    also grow in proportion to the increase in I/Os to the Logical 
    Drives. In all cases, the DS4000 storage disk system controller 
    will always successfully service the timeout I/O on the subsequent 
    retries.   

25. When saving the DS4000 storage disk system event log entries, it 
    may take up to several minutes to save all entries in the event log 
    depending on the DS4000 management workstation resources. However, 
    the DS4000 Storage Manager client GUI will show the completion of 
    the event log saving almost instantly. The work around is to check 
    the file size of the file that the event log entries are saved 
    periodically; if the file size does not change, the event log 
    saving is completed.

26. Do not perform other storage management tasks, such as creating or 
    deleting logical drives, reconstructing arrays, and so on, while 
    downloading the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware 
    and DS4000 EXP ESM firmware. It is recommended that you close 
    all storage management sessions (other than the session that you 
    use to upgrade the firmware) to the DS4000 storage disk system 
    that you plan to update.

27. Inter-operability with tape devices is supported on separate HBA and 
    switch zones.


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1.2  Enhancements
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   IMPORTANT: New features that are introduced with the DS4000 Storage 
   Manager version 9.12 host software will not be available for any DS4000 
   storage disk system controllers without the controller firmware version 
   06.12.xx.xx installed. The DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware 
   version 6.12.xx.xx is available for the following DS4000 storage 
   disk system only - the DS4100 with Standard option, the DS4300 with 
   Standard or Turbo option, the DS4400 and the DS4500. Please contact 
   your IBM service representative or IBM resellers for the availability 
   of additional DS4000 storage disk system models support with controller 
   firmware version 6.12.xx.xx in the future. 
   
   A summary list of the new features that are introduced with the DS4000 
   Storage Manager version 9.12 host software in conjunction with the 
   DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx is as 
   followed:
    
   1. Support for the FC/SATA intermix premium feature enable via a
      premium feature key file. A premium key file, instead of a NVSRAM
      file, is now required to enable the FC/SATA premium feature intermix
      in a DS4000 storage disk system.
   2. Support for the DS4100 with standard(base) option with controller
      firmware v06.xx.xx.xx code thread. No new premium features are
      available at this time for the DS4100 storage disk system with the 
      controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx.
   3. New DS4000 host-software installation wizard that will automatically
      install the appropriate host-software components depending on 
      the select server type (i.e.. host or management-station.)
   4. Serviceability Enhancement - the ability to extract SMART data for 
      SATA-technology drives.
   5. Usability Enhancement - Added Wizard to Storage Manager SMclient to
      aid users with Storage Partitioning creation with Hosts, Adapters, 
      and mappings. Added Task Assistant to Storage Manager which helps 
      guide users through common task wizards for both the Enterprise and 
      Subsystem management tasks.    
   6. For HP-UX server configurations with LVM mirrored volume, a fix was 
      implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an AVT storm caused by 
      the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of available paths to the 
      volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path failure. This fix requires 
      the controller firmware and NVSRAM be at version 06.12.xx.xx or later. 
      The fix is to disabling the DS4000 storage subsystem AVT requests for 
      the HP-UX server specific read pattern of 2 blocks (1024 bytes) at LBA 
      8192. To disable this new DS4000 storage subsystem functionality in HP-
      UX server configurations without LVM mirrored volumes, please refer to 
      the disable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script script described in the 4.1 
      Configuration Settings section. Please contact IBM support for 
      additional information, if required.
      

   Please refer to the New Features section of the IBM DS4000 Storage 
   Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for the appropriate 
   host server operating system environment for additional information 
   about the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 enhancements.

   
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1.3  Prerequisites
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     The DS4000 controller firmware and NVSRAM file that are packaged 
     with this web download  file can ONLY be loaded in the following DS4000 
     storage subsystems:
     
     1. DS4100 storage disk systems with Standard Option
     2. DS4300 storage disk systems with Standard or Turbo Option
     2. DS4400 storage disk systems
     3. DS4500 storage disk systems
     
     ATTENTION:
     - DO NOT DOWNLOAD this controller firmware on any other DS4000 storage 
       disk systems. There is not any checking for this restriction inside 
       the DS4000 storage manager client program. In addition, the procedure 
       to recover the DS4000 storage subsystem that was inadvertently loaded 
       with this firmware file will require downtime to the DS4000 storage 
       subsystem. 
     - DO NOT ATTEMPT to download the controller firmware and NVSRAM that 
       are packaged in this web download file to the DS4000 storage 
       subsystems without reviewing and making sure that all of the 
       dependencies that are mentioned in the section 1.4 Dependencies are 
       met. 

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1.4  Dependencies
-----------------
   
   ATTENTION:

   1. BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD
      DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, 
      YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE 
      ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. See Section 3.0 
      Installation and Setup Instructions for more information.

   2. DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION 06.1X.XX.XX 
      REQUIRES THAT THE FIRMWARE VERSION OF AN ATTACHED EXP700 
      ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE MODULE (ESM) BE AT VERSION 9326 OR HIGHER. IF 
      THE EXP700 ESM FIRMWARE IS EARLIER THAN THE 9326 VERSIONS, THE 
      EXP700 ENCLOSURE AND THE INSTALLED DRIVES MAY NOT BE DISPLAYED IN 
      THE DS4000 SUBSYSTEM MANAGEMENT WINDOW AFTER THE CONTROLLER 
      FIRMWARE IS UPGRADED. 
 
   3. DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION 06.1X.XX.XX 
      REQUIRES THAT THE FIRMWARE VERSION OF AN ATTACHED EXP100 
      ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE MODULE (ESM) BE AT VERSION 955X OR HIGHER. IT 
      IS NOT POSSIBLE TO UPGRADE EXP100 ESM FIRMWARE VERSIONS THROUGH 
      953X TO VERSION 955X. TO DETERMINE THE FIRMWARE LEVEL OF AN EXP100 
      ESM, IDENTIFY THE PRODUCT LABEL LOCATED AT THE REAR OF THE EXP100 
      ENCLOSURE. ONLY LABELS ON WHICH THE FIELD REPLACEABLE UNIT (FRU) 
      PART NUMBER READS 25R0156 POSITIVELY INDICATE THAT AN ESM MODULE IS 
      RUNNING FIRMWARE VERSION 955X OR HIGHER. IF THERE IS NO LABEL OR 
      THE PART NUMBER ON THE LABEL DOES NOT READ 25R0156, THE ESM MAY 
      STILL HAVE THE FIRMWARE VERSION 955X OR HIGHER IF IT HAD BEEN 
      PREVIOUSLY UPGRADED. IF NECESSARY, CONTACT YOUR IBM REPRESENTATIVE, 
      SUPPORT, OR RESELLER FOR ASSISTANCE.
       
   4. CURRENTLY, THE ONLY DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEMS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THE 
      06.1X.XX.XX CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION ARE THE DS4100 WITH 
      STANDARD OPTION, THE DS4300 WITH STANDARD OR TURBO OPTION, THE 
      DS4400 AND THE DS4500. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS CONTROLLER FIRMWARE ON 
      ANY OTHER DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. THERE IS NOT ANY CHECKING FOR THIS 
      RESTRICTION INSIDE THE STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT PROGRAM.
      
   5. THE DS4000 STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT PROGRAM VERSION 9.12.XX.XX MUST BE 
      INSTALLED AND CONFIGURED TO MANAGE YOUR DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. 
      THIS PROGRAM IS INCLUDED IN THE APPROPRIATE DS4000 STORAGE MANAGER 
      VERSION 9.12 HOST SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF YOUR 
      DS4000 MANAGEMENT STATION. 
       
   6. If the managed DS4000 storage disk system had the FC/SATA intermix 
      premium feature enable, do not upgrade the controller firmware from 
      version 06.10.xx.xx to version 06.12.xx.xx until a FC/SATA intermix 
      premium feature key file is generated and available. Once the 
      controller firmware is upgraded to version 06.12.xx.xx, the FC/SATA 
      intermix premium feature will be shown as out-of-compliance and the 
      FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is required to re-enable the 
      feature. When the FC/SATA intermix premium feature is in out-of-
      compliance state, LUNs management functions like creations, deletions 
      and modifications will not be operational. Please refer to the FC/SATA 
      intermix premium feature activation card that was packaged with your
      FC/SATA intermix feature kit.


   IBM DS4000 Storage Manager host software version 09.1x.xx.xx provides 
   full management support for IBM machine types 3552 and 3542 storage 
   controllers that have at least firmware version 04.01.xx.xx 
   (05.xx.xx.xx in Microsoft Windows environment), IBM Machine type 1742-
   900 and 1742 storage controllers that have at least firmware version 
   05.00.04.xx or IBM Machine type 1722 storage controllers that have at 
   least firmware version 05.3x.xx.xx.
    
   The only IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 09.1x.xx.xx supported 
   management function on controllers with non-supported controller 
   firmware versions is controller firmware and NVSRAM download. 

   
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2.0   Change History
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2.1   Version History
-----------------------------

This is the latest release of IBM DS4000 TotalStorage™ controller 
firmware/ NVSRAM for the following DS4000 storage disk system models 
- the DS4100 with Standard option, the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo options, 
the DS4400 and the DS4500.

Version 06.12.03.xx, 3/18/2005 for the DS4100 with Standard option, the 
    DS4300 with Standard or Turbo option, the DS4400, and the DS4500
    
    - Support the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 
      06.12.xx.xx
    - Support the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed in the
      DS4100 storage disk systems with standard option
    - Support FC/SATA intermix premium feature activation via premium key file
    - Added wizard and task assistants in the Storage Manager Client to guide
      users through common DS4000 storage disk system management tasks.  
    - Fix a potential HP-UX LVM AVT storm defect in HP-UX server configurations
      with LVM mirrored volumes (9-24-04)  
    - Fix 269285 - Placement of userdata.txt is inconsistent causing event 
      monitor to not send userdata.txt and profile information with the email 
      alert
    - Fix hlpct_53446 - Free space decreased after deletion of logical volume

Version 06.10.11.xx, 1/17/2005 for the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo option,
    DS4400, and DS4500
    
    - Support the controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx or higher for the 
      DS4300 storage disk systems with standard option. Support for the attachment 
      of EXP710 drive enclosures to the DS4300 storage disk systems with standard 
      option
      
Version 06.10.11.xx, 11/24/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500
 This is a maintenance DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware release 
 for the 06.10.xx.xx firmware version. The new feature list is as follows: 
     
   - Support for the DS4000 FC/SATA storage expansion enclosure intermix 
     option
   - Enhance the DS4000 Enhance Remote Mirroring Global Copy and Global 
     mirroring functions
   - Support for the attachment of EXP100 SATA storage expansion 
     enclosures to the DS4400 storage disk system
   - 254966 ( 81363) DS4000 controllers do not agree on configurations
   - 256414 ( 81441) Cannot create new LUN using FSM 9.1 / FW 6.1 
   - 259611 ( 82674) Cannot install SM 9.10 because of a defect in 
            Storage Manager host software uninstall
   - 261681 download allenclosures firmware cmd not working correctly.
   - hlpct_53466 ( 80833) tcp port scan causes controllers to reboot
   - change MIB file name to SM9_10.MIB
    
Version 06.10.06.xx, 8/31/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500
 This is a major DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware release. 
 The new feature list is as follows: 
     
   - Enhance Remote Mirroring support. Besides Metro Mirroring, IBM
     DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 also supports Global Copy and 
     Global Mirroring Remote Minor options.
   - Parallel hard drive firmware download.
   - Staged controller firmware download.
   - Full command-line SMcli support.
   - Improve DS4000 Storage manager client Subsystem Management GUI
   - Adding additional diagnostic features - Drive Channel status,
     hard drive sector failure list.  
   - Support for the DS4000 EXP710 drive expansion enclosure (10/15/2004).  

Version 05.40.15.00, 7/29/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500.
 This is the controller firmware maintenance release. The fix list for
 DS4400 and DS4500 models is as follows: 
     
  76687 Memory fault while running sysReboot with Cluster
  74957 Error encountered after Heavy Mirror Xor Traffic Phase, and RV
  75268 Ancient I/0 aborted while running switch port fail (volume copy, 
        snapshot
  75682 Controller returns reservation conflict while running switch port
        fail test.
  78203 (#78004) 242386 - RAID1 remained degraded after a drive pull/replace
  78339 (#69661) Assigned drives of RAID1 VG came back as "offline"
  78347 (#77338) Fatal vproc after replacing drive
  78354 (#76490) C238953 - Host IO Read Errors in multiple configurations 
  78606 (#78357) disk array became unmanageable in benchmark
  74117 (#70794) One volume never finishes reconstruction when co
  74700 (#74488) (#74483) Continuous resets on Tachyon chip - 5884 contr
  75324 (#74431) C224711  Timeout occurs on the client during a request to 
  75598 Panic: Assertion failed : registration = 0, file presReservableVolume.
  76017 (#75805) Incomplete transfer of host information during v
  76104 (#75661) Controller reboot due to ancient IO during sysRe
  76109 (#75755) CMVC: 237648    Configuration loss of RAID 0 volume (SATA)
  76181 (#75746) Ancient I/O (mode select I/O) during 2 second po
  76269 (#75283) C236739 I/O error during controller offline testing with S
  76727 (#75055) DCE operation on RAID 1 volume invalidates tray loss prote
  76951 (#76881) IAF process hangs if multiple IAFs in progress on same volume
  76965 (#76936) Unable to re-initiate volume group initialization after th
  77501 (#77464) Controllers did not agree on the state of a spindown drive
  77510 (#71143) Defragmentation fails                          
  77555 (#75895) Request for ctlr resets to be blocked by ctlr du
  77632 (#76702) Volume state not consistent between the controllers after 
  78048 (#74681) Mapping exceeds 32-lun limit for default host ty


 The fix list for DS4300 Turbo models is as follows: 

  78203 (#78004) 242386 - RAID1 remained degraded after a drive pull/replace
  78339 (#69661) Assigned drives of RAID1 VG came back as "offline"
  78347 (#77338) Fatal vproc after replacing drive
  78354 (#76490) C238953 - Host IO Read Errors in multiple configurations 
  78606 (#78357) disk array became unmanageable in benchmark
  74117 (#70794) One volume never finishes reconstruction when co
  74700 (#74488) (#74483) Continuous resets on Tachyon chip - 5884 contr
  75324 (#74431) C224711  Timeout occurs on the client during a request to 
  76017 (#75805) Incomplete transfer of host information during v
  76104 (#75661) Controller reboot due to ancient IO during sysRe
  76109 (#75755) CMVC: 237648    Configuration loss of RAID 0 volume (SATA)
  76181 (#75746) Ancient I/O (mode select I/O) during 2 second po
  76251 (#76148) Controller assertion when validateCmdInfo routine calls cf
  76269 (#75283) C236739 I/O error during controller offline testing with S
  76727 (#75055) DCE operation on RAID 1 volume invalidates tray loss prote
  76951 (#76881) IAF process hangs if multiple IAFs in progress on same volume
  76965 (#76936) Unable to re-initiate volume group initialization after th
  77501 (#77464) Controllers did not agree on the state of a spindown drive
  77510 (#71143) Defragmentation fails                          
  77537 (#75629) MEMORY FAULT in "symPrepareAltControllerInfo"  
  77555 (#75895) Request for ctlr resets to be blocked by ctlr du
  77632 (#76702) Volume state not consistent between the controllers after 
  78048 (#74681) Mapping exceeds 32-lun limit for default host ty
      


Version 05.40.11.0x, 4/31/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500.

  Fixed a problem with cache mirroring that caused the controller to 
  disable the cache.  The result was severe performance degradation. For 
  DS4400 and DS4500, the controller firmware version was 05.40.11.03. For 
  the DS4300 Turbo, the new controller firmware version was 05.40.11.04.



Version 05.40.11.01, 4/09/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500.
 This is the controller firmware and NVSRAM maintenance release. The fix 
 list for DS4400 and DS4500 models is as follows: 
         
  75567 (#75479) Memory leak beginning in 5.40.xx.xx.
  69629 Downloading controller firmware with offline volumes causes 
        unfinished download pr 
  69872 (#69467) TD_PT1086 RLS baseline date after new device 
        insertion is incorrect. 
  70891 (#70586) TD_PT1277 Drive size reported incorrectly for 
        a closed drive 
  71206 tray number reported incorrectly during discovery
  70561 (#68445)  C219318 CMVC 217537: Data miscompare while 
        doing online controller firmware downloads 
  70772 (#68894) Analysis of a MEL log shows Dacstore Scrub 
        is repeating on a volume group 
  71782 (#68268) (#67670) Can't create volume if drive sizes 
        are similar 
  72339 CMVC-hlpct_42401 Error importing a 7.3 Gig FlashCopy LUN 
  72676 (#70100) SMclient GUI reports array needs attention, but 
        guru reports 
  72712 (#72672) TD_PT1461 Ancient I/O during sysReboots 
  72768 (#72449) controllers repeatedly panic during M1 -> S3 
        FW upgrade 
  69052 Drives not assigned to proper loop on 2882 
  69204 (#68807) Profile not reporting correct unconfigured 
        capacity on volume group
  
  Modify the NVSRAM file to disable Cache Sync in the W2K het 
  host region.

 The fix list for DS4300 Turbo models is as follows: 
       
  75567 (#75479) Memory leak beginning in 5.40.xx.xx.
  69629 Downloading controller firmware with offline volumes causes 
        unfinished download pr 
  69872 (#69467) TD_PT1086 RLS baseline date after new device 
        insertion is incorrect. 
  70105 (#70048) TD_PT1195 Diagnostic path to controller report 
        down falsely 
  70891 (#70586) TD_PT1277 Drive size reported incorrectly for 
        a closed drive 
  71206 tray number reported incorrectly during discovery
  70561 (#68445)  C219318 CMVC 217537: Data miscompare while 
        doing online controller firmware downloads 
  70772 (#68894) Analysis of a MEL log shows Dacstore Scrub 
        is repeating on a volume group 
  71782 (RW #68268) (#67670) Can't create volume if drive sizes 
        are similar 
  72339 CMVC-hlpct_42401 Error importing a 7.3 Gig FlashCopy LUN 
  72676 (#70100) SMclient GUI reports array needs attention, but 
        guru reports 
  72712 (#72672) TD_PT1461 Ancient I/O during sysReboots 
  72768 (#72449) controllers repeatedly panic during M1 -> S3 
        FW upgrade 
  69052 Drives not assigned to proper loop on 2882 
  69204 (#68807) Profile not reporting correct unconfigured 
        capacity on volume group
  
  Modify the NVSRAM file to disable Cache Sync in the W2K het 
  host region.


Version 05.40.06.01, 12/19/2004 for the DS4400 and DS4500.
Version 05.40.07.01, 12/19/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo.
 First Maintenance Release


Version 05.40.03.05, 9/21/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. 
 This is the initial release of the DS4000 storage disk system controller 
 firmware for the 05.40.xx.xx code thread. A list of new features are as 
 follows:
 
 - Support for IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Turbo
 - Support for VolumeCopy copy service premium feature
 - 256 logical drives per storage mapping partition
 - Persistent reservations
 - User control of network parameters. The user can now change the 
   controller IP addresses via the Subsystem Management window interface.
 - Support for larger than 2TB arrays. The maximum logical drive size is 
   still 2TB. 
 - Support for the creation of logical drives with a segment size of 512K
   using the script engines or SMcli   


       
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2.4 Code levels at time of release are as follows
-------------------------------------------------

     1. Storage Controller Firmware versions:
        a. DS4500:  FW_06120300_06100400
        b. DS4400:  FW_06120300_06100400
        c. DS4300 Standard:  SNAP_288X_06120300          
        d. DS4300 Turbo   :  SNAP_288X_06120300
        e. DS4100 Standard:  SNAP_282X_06120300
                      
                                            
     2. Storage Controller NVSRAM versions:
        ATTENTION: The DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version
                   06.12.xx.xx uses the FC/SATA intermix premium key file 
                   to enable the FC/SATA intermix functionality. It does 
                   not rely on a certain version of the NVSRAM file like 
                   the controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx. Do not 
                   apply this version 06.12.xx.xx of the firmware until a
                   FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is generated
                   and available.
                    
        a. DS4500:  N1742F900R912V06
        b. DS4400:  N1742F700R912V05
        c. DS4300 Standard:  N1722F600R912V05 (for EXP700/EXP710 ONLY attachment
                                               or when FC/SATA intermix premium
                                               feature is enabled)
        d. DS4300 Turbo   :  N1722F600R912V05 (for EXP700/EXP710 ONLY attachment
                                               or when FC/SATA intermix premium
                                               feature is enabled)
        
        e. DS4300 Standard:  N1722F600R28enc2 (for EXP100 ONLY attachment)
        f. DS4300 Turbo   :  N1722F600R28enc2 (for EXP100 ONLY attachment)
         ATTENTION: DO NOT LOAD THIS NVSRAM FILE - N1722F600R18enc2 - INTO 
         ANY OF THE DS4300 STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS THAT HAVE DRIVES IN THE DS4300 
         CHASSIS DRIVE SLOTS. THIS WILL CAUSE THE DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM 
         NOT RECOGNIZING ANY OF THE DRIVES IN THE DS4300 CHASSIS. THIS 
         COULD RESULT IN THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEFINED RAID ARRAY OR A 
         LOSS OF ACCESS TO DATA. IF THIS NVSRAM FILE IS LOADED INTO A 
         DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM WITHOUT ANY DRIVE EXPANSION ENCLOSURES 
         ATTACHED, IT WILL PREVENT THE STORAGE DISK SYSTEM FROM COMPLETING THE 
         BOOT PROCESS THAT IS INITIATED TO ACTIVATE THE NEW NVSRAM 
         SETTINGS, WHICH MIGHT RESULT IN LOST OF MANAGEMENT ACCESS TO the 
         DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. THERE IS NO SAFETY MECHANISM TO PREVENT 
         THE UNINTENTIONAL LOADING OF THIS NVSRAM FILE. IN ADDITION, DO NOT
         USE THIS NVSRAM FILE IN THE DS4300 STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS WITH FC/SATA
         INTERMIX PREMIUM FEATURE ENABLE.             
       
        g. DS4100 Standard:  N1724F100R912V05
           A previous version (N1724F100R842V07) of the DS4100 NVSRAM file  
           is also provided in the 
           ...\NVSRAM\DS4100_FAStT100\PreReq_NVSRAM_for_DS4100 directory for 
           downloading into the DS4100 storage subsystems before the upgrading 
           of the DS4100 controller firmware to version 06.12.xx.xx.
                                                      
   
   Refer to the following IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems 
   Technical Support web site for the latest released code levels.
  
   http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/
   
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3.0   Installation and Setup Instructions
-----------------------------------------

ATTENTION: If you have not already done so, please check the Dependencies 
section for ANY MINIMUM FIRMWARE REQUIREMENTS for the DS4000 storage disk 
system controllers, the drive expansion enclosure ESMs and the hard drives 
in the DS4000 configurations before upgrading the controller firmware. Make 
any firmware updates as required BEFORE proceeding to upgrade the DS4000 
controller with the firmware and NVSRAM files packaged with this README file. 
FAILURE to observe the minimum firmware requirement might cause your DS4000 
storage disk system to be OUT-OF-SERVICE.  


3.1 BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD
    DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, 
    YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE 
    ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE.
      
    To reload the NVSRAM version N17124F100R842V07 into the DS4100
    storage subsystem, do the following:

    a. Open the Subsystem Management window. 
    b. Click Storage Subsystem => Download => NVSRAM. 
       Follow the online instructions.
       
3.2  Updated the firmware of the ESMs in the attached drive expansion
     enclosures to latest levels before the upgrading the controller firmware. 
     Specifically, if the to-be-updated controller is attached to any EXP700 
     drive expansion enclosures, the EXP700 ESM firmware must be updated to 
     version 9326 or later before the 06.1x.xx.xx controller firmware is 
     downloaded into the DS4000 storage disk system controllers. Otherwise, the 
     installed drives in the exp700 drive expansion enclosures may not be 
     displayed in the DS4000 subsystem management window after the controller 
     firmware is upgraded. In addition, if the ESM firmware of any attached 
     EXP100 drive expansion enclosures must be at version 955x or higher before 
     updating the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware to version 
     06.1x.xx.xx or higher.     
     
     To download drive expansion ESM firmware, do the following: 
   
     a.  Open the Subsystem Management window. 
     b.  Click Advanced => Download => Environmental(ESM) Card Firmware. 
         Follow the online instructions.
         
         Note: If the existing controller firmware in the DS4000 storage 
         disk system is of version 05.30.xx.xx or higher, the drive expansion 
         enclosure ESM firmware can be updated online with no downtime if 
         both ESMs in each of the drive expansion enclosures are 
         functional and one (and ONLY one) drive expansion enclosure is 
         selected in the ESM firmware download window for ESM firmware 
         updating at a time.
     
     Note: The latest ESM firmware versions for EXP100, EXP700 and EXP710
     drive expansion enclosures are 9554, 9327 and 9629, respectively.

3.3  If the managed DS4000 storage subsystem with controller firmware version
     06.10.xx.xx installed had the FC/SATA intermix premium feature 
     enable, do not continue with the next step until a FC/SATA intermix 
     premium feature key file is generated and available. Once the 
     controller firmware is upgraded to version 06.12.xx.xx, the FC/SATA 
     intermix premium feature will be shown as out-of-compliance and the 
     FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is required to re-enable 
     the feature. When the FC/SATA intermix premium feature is in out-of-
     compliance state, LUNs management functions like creations, deletions 
     and modifications will not be operational. Please refer to the 
     FC/SATA intermix premium feature activation card that was shipped 
     with the FC/SATA intermix premium feature kit for instructions to 
     generate the required premium key file. 
 

3.4  Important: You must install the firmware update prior to downloading  
                the NVSRAM update.

     To download firmware, do the following: 
   
     a.  Open the Subsystem Management window. 
     b.  Click Storage Subsystem => Download => Firmware. 
         Follow the online instructions.

     To download NVSRAM, do the following: 
   
     a.  Open the Subsystem Management window. 
     b.  Click Storage Subsystem => Download => NVSRAM. 
         Follow the online instructions.
       
3.5  (if applicable) Re-enable the FC/SATA intermix premium feature using 
     the premium key file.

3.6  After the controller firmware and NVSRAM is updated, consider
     checking the IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support 
     web site for the latest released hard drive firmware. 
     
     To download hard disk drive firmware, do the following: 
   
     a.  Schedule down time because the drive firmware upgrades require that 
         there are no HOST IOs to be sent to the DS4000 controllers.
     b.  Open the Subsystem Management window. 
     c.  Click Advanced => Download => Drive Firmware. 
         Follow the online instructions. 
         Note: with controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx or later, multiple 
         drives from up to four different drive types can be updated at the 
         same time. 
      

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3.2  Helpful Hints
------------------

1. If you are unable to see the maximum number of drives during 
   Automatic Configuration, you should be able to use Manual 
   Configuration to select individual drives and select the maximum 
   number of drives allowed.

2. Depending on the storage subsystem that you have purchased, you
   may have to purchase the DS4000 storage partitioning premium feature
   option or an option to upgrade the number of supported partitions
   in a storage subsystem. Please see IBM Marketing representatives
   or IBM resellers for more information.
   
   - IBM DS4100 storage subsystem (machine type 1724): The standard
     and single controller configuration does not have the DS4000 storage 
     partitioning premium enabled. Four partition, eight partition, 
     sixteen and an upgrade from four to eight partition storage 
     partitioning premium feature options can be purchased. 

   - IBM DS4300 storage subsystem (machine type 1722): The standard and 
     single controller configuration does not have the DS4000 storage 
     partitioning premium enabled. Four partition, eight partition, 
     sixteen and an upgrade from four to eight partition storage 
     partitioning premium feature options can be purchased. The IBM 
     DS4300 with Turbo option comes with 8 partition storage partitioning 
     premium option installed. An upgrade to 64 partitions can be 
     purchased for the IBM DS4300 with Turbo option. 

   - IBM DS4400 storage subsystems (machine type 1742 - models 1RU and 1RX): 
     The standard configuration has 64 partitions storage partitioning 
     premium option installed. No additional storage partitioning premium 
     feature options can be purchased for these storage subsystems.

   - IBM DS4500 storage subsystem (machine type 1742 - models 90X and
     90U): The standard configuration has 16 partition storage partitioning
     premium option installed. An upgrade from 16 to 64 partition storage
     partitioning premium feature option can be purchased.

3. When making serial connections to the DS4000 Storage controller, the 
   baud rate is recommended to be set at either 38200 or 57600. Note: Do 
   not make any connections to the DS4000 Storage disk system serial ports 
   unless it is instructed by IBM Support. Incorrect use of the serial 
   port might result in lost of configuration, and possibly, data. 

4. Fabric topology zoning requirement. To avoid possible problem at the 
   host level, it is best practice that all Fibre Channel (FC) Switches 
   must be zoned such that a single FC host bus adapter can only access 
   one controller per storage array. In addition, this zoning requirement 
   also ensures the maximum number of host connections can be seen and 
   log into the controller FC host port. This is because if a FC HBA port 
   is seen by both controller A and B host ports, it will be counted as 
   two host connections to the storage subsystem - one for controller A 
   port and one for controller B port.
   
   Note: The DS4000 storage disk systems DS4500, DS4400 and FAStT500 
   (IBM machine type 1742 and 3552) have two ports per controller - 
   one per minihub slot. 
   The DS4000 storage disk system DS4300 (IBM machine type 1722) and 
   DS4100 (IBM machine type 1724) have two ports per controller. 
   The DS4000 storage disk system FAStT200 (IBM machine type 3542) has 
   only one port per controller.

5. All drive enclosures on any given loop should have complete unique ID's 
   assigned to them. For example, in a maximum configured DS4500 storage 
   disk system, enclosures on one redundant drive loop should be assigned 
   with id's 10-17 and enclosures on the second drive loop should be assigned 
   with id's 20-27. Enclosures id's 00 ~ 09 should not be used and 
   enclosure id's with the same single digit such as 11 and 21 should not 
   be used on the same drive loop.    
     
6. The ideal configuration for SATA drives is one drive in each EXP per 
   array, one logical drive per array and one OS disk partition per 
   logical drive. This configuration minimizes the random head movements 
   that increase stress on the SATA drives. As the number of drive 
   locations to which the heads have to move increases, application 
   performance and drive reliability may be impacted. If more logical 
   drives are configured, but not all of them used simultaneously, some 
   of the randomness can be avoided. SATA drives are best used for long 
   sequential reads and writes.

7. IBM recommends at least one hot spare per EXP100 drive expansion enclosure.
   A total of 15 hot-spares can be defined per DS4000 storage disk system 
   configuration.
   
8. Starting with the DS4000 Storage Manager (SM) host software version 9.12 or
   later, the Storage Manager client script window looks for the files with 
   the file type of  ".script" as the possible script command files. In the 
   previous versions of the DS4000 Storage Manager host software, the script 
   window looks for the file type ".scr" instead. (i.e. enableAVT.script for 
   9.12 or later vs. enableAVT.scr for pre-9.12)
 


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4.0 Configuration Information
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4.1 Configuration Settings
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1. By default the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12 firmware does not 
   automatically map logical drives if storage partitioning feature is
   enabled. This means that the logical drives are not automatically 
   presented to host systems.

   For a new installation, after creating new arrays and logical drives; 
   a. If your host type is not Windows NT, create a partition with your 
      host type and map the logical drives to this partition. 
   b. If your host type is Windows NT, you can map your logical drives to 
      the "Default Host Group" or create a partition with a NT host type.   
                                 
   When upgrading from previous versions of IBM DS4000 Storage 
   Manager to version 9.12. 
   a. If upgrading with no partitions created and you have an operating
      system other than Windows NT,  you will need to create a partition with
      your host type and map the logical drives from the "Default
      Host Group" to this partition.
   b. If upgrading with Storage Partitions and an operating system other 
      than Windows NT is accessing the default host group, you will need 
      to change the default host type.  After upgrading,  the default host 
      type is reset to Windows NT. 
              
   Refer to the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager online help to learn
   more about creating storage partitions and changing host types.

2. When you are configuring IBM machine type 1722, 1742, 3542 or 3552 
   storage subsystems as boot devices, contact IBM support for supported 
   configurations and instructions for configuring LUNs in the IBM 
   storage subsystems as boot devices. 

3. Running script files for specific configurations. Apply the 
   appropriate scripts  to your subsystem based on the instructions
   you have read in the publications or any instructions in the 
   operating system readme file. A description of each script is 
   shown below.

   - SameWWN.scr: Setup RAID controllers to have the same World Wide 
     Names. The World Wide Names (node) will be the same for each 
     controller pair. The NVSRAM default sets the RAID controllers
     to have the same World Wide Names.

   - DifferentWWN.scr:  Setup RAID controllers to have different World 
     Wide Names. The World Wide Names (node) will be different for each 
     controller pair. The NVSRAM default sets the RAID controllers 
     to have the same World Wide Names.

   - EnableDriveMigration.scr:  The Enable drive migration script
     scans the drives for configurations when they are added to a 
     storage system and will also attempt to use configurations found
     on the newly added drives. The NVSRAM default will enable drive
     migration.

   - DisableDriveMigration.scr:  The disable drive migration script 
     allows the addition of disk drives while the system is running.
     In addition, it identifies the drives as unused capacity 
     regardless of past drive configuration. The NVSRAM default will
     enable drive migration.
   
   - EnableAVT_W2K_S2003_noncluster.scr:  The script will enable automatic
     logical drive transfer (AVT/ADT) for the Windows 2000/Server 2003 
     non- cluster heterogenous host region. The default setting is to 
     disable AVT for this heterogenous host region. This setting is one 
     of the requirements for setting up the remote boot or SAN-boot. Do 
     not use this script unless it is specifically mentioned in the 
     applicable instructions. (This script can be used for other host 
     type if modifications are made in the script, replacing the Windows 
     2000/Server 2003 non-cluster host type with the appropriate host 
     type that needs to have AVT/ADT enabled) 
  
   - DisableAVT_W2K_S2003_noncluster.scr:  The script will disable the 
     automatic logical drive transfer (AVT) for the Windows 2000/Server 
     2003 non-cluster heterogenous host region. This script will reset the 
     Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster AVT setting to the default.
     (This script can be used for other host type if modifications are
     made in the script, replacing the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster
     host type with the appropriate host type that needs to have AVT/ADT
     disabled) 

   - EnableAVT_Linux.scr:  The script will enable automatic logical drive 
     transfer (AVT) for the Linux heterogenous host region. Do not use this
     script unless it is specifically mentioned in the applicable 
     instructions. 
  
   - DisableAVT_Linux.scr:  The script will disable the automatic logical
     drive transfer (AVT) for the Linux heterogenous host region. Do not 
     use this script unless it is specifically mentioned in the 
     applicable instructions. 

   - disable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script: This script will disable the DS4000 
     storage subsystem ignoring of AVT requests for the HP-UX server specific 
     read pattern of 2 blocks at LBA 8192. The AVT ignoring request for the 
     LBA 8192 reads was implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an 
     AVT storm caused by the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of 
     available paths to the volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path 
     failure. Use this script only when you do not have defined LVM mirrored 
     volumes using the mapped logical drives from the DS4000 storage 
     subsystems. Please contact IBM support for additional information, if 
     required.     
      
   - enable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script: This script will enable the DS4000 
     storage subsystem ignoring of AVT requests for the HP-UX server specific 
     read pattern of 2 blocks at LBA 8192. The AVT ignoring request for the 
     LBA 8192 reads was implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an 
     AVT storm caused by the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of 
     available paths to the volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path 
     failure. Use this script only when you do have defined LVM mirrored 
     volumes using the mapped logical drives from the DS4000 storage 
     subsystems. Please contact IBM support for additional information, if 
     required.     

     
4. When you are configuring IBM machine type 1742 or 3552 storage
   controllers in host cluster Remote Mirror configurations, contact 
   IBM support for supported host cluster configurations and instructions
   for configuring IBM storage controllers in clustered Remote Mirror
   configurations. 

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4.2 Unsupported configurations
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   The following lists configurations that are currently not being 
   supported with IBM DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12.

   1. The DS4100 (machine type 1724) storage disk system does not support the 
      attachment of the DS4000 EXP710 and EXP700 (FC) drive expansion 
      enclosure. Please contact IBM representatives or resellers for the 
      availability of such support in the future.
   
   2. The DS4100 with Single Controller option does not support the 
      attachment of the DS4000 EXP100 drive expansion enclosures.
      
   3. The DS4300 storage disk system with Single Controller option does not 
      support the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx. The correct 
      firmware version for these DS4300 storage disk system models is 
      05.34.xx.xx.   

   4. The DS4100 storage disk system with Single Controller option does not
      support the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx. The correct 
      firmware version for these DS4300 storage disk systems models is 
      05.42.xx.xx.   

   5. Fibre Channel loop environments with the IBM Fibre Channel Hub, 
      machine type 3523 and 3534, in conjunction with the IBM Fibre Channel 
      Switch, machine types 2109-S16, 2109-F16 or 2109-S8. In this 
      configuration, the hub is connected between the switch and the IBM 
      Fibre Channel RAID Controllers.

   6. The IBM Fibre Channel Hub, machine type 3523, connected to IBM 
      machine type 1722, 1742, 3542 and 3552.
   
   7. A configuration in which a server with only one FC host bus 
      adapter connects directly to any DS4000 storage disk system with dual 
      controllers is not supported. The supported configuration is the 
      one in which the server with only one FC host bus adapter connects 
      to both controller ports of any DS4000 storage disk system with dual 
      controllers via Fibre Channel (FC) switch (SAN-attached 
      configuration.)


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5.0   Unattended Mode
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        N/A

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6.0   WEB Sites and Support Phone Number
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   6.1  IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site:
        http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/

   6.2  IBM TotalStorage™ Marketing Web Site:
        http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk

   6.3  If you have any questions about this update, or problem
        applying the update go to the following HelpCenter World
        Telephone Numbers URL:
        http://www.ibm.com/planetwide

  IMPORTANT: 
  You should download the latest version of the DS4000 Storage Manager 
  host software, the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware, 
  the DS4000 drive expansion enclosure ESM firmware and the drive firmware 
  at the time of the initial installation and when product updates become 
  available. To be notified of important product updates, you must first 
  register at the IBM Support and Download Web site: 
  
  www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/
  
  Perform the following steps to register at the IBM Support and Download 
  Web site: 
  
  1. Click on My Support in the Additional Support box in the right side 
     of the DS4000 Support web page.
  2. The Sign In window displays. Either enter your IBM ID and Password 
     in the sign in area to sign in and proceed to step 6 or, if you are 
     not currently registered with the site, click Register Now. 
  3. The My IBM Registration window Step 1 of 2 opens. Enter the 
     appropriate information and click Continue to get to the second My 
     IBM Registration window. 
  4. In the My IBM Registration window Step 2 of 2, enter the appropriate 
     information and click Submit to register. 
  5. The My IBM Registration windows opens with the following message, 
     “Thank you for registering with ibm.com. Continue to explore ibm.com 
     as a registered user.” Click Edit Profile in the My IBM box on the 
     right side of the window. 
  6. The My Support window opens. Click Add Products to add products to 
     your profile. 
  7. Use the pull-down menus to choose the appropriate DS4000 storage 
     disk system and expansion enclosures that you want to add to your profile.
     To add the product to your profile, select the appropriate box or 
     boxes next to the product names and click Add Product. 
  8. Once the product or products are added to your profile, click 
     Subscribe to Email folder tab 
  9. Select Storage in the pull down menu. Select Please send these 
     documents by weekly email and select Downloads and drivers and 
     Flashes to receive important information about product updates. 
     Click Updates. 
 10. Click Sign Out to log out of My Support.
 
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7.0   Trademarks and Notices
----------------------------

        7.1  The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation
             in the United States or other countries or both:

                 IBM
                 
                 DS4000
                 
                 FAStT
                 
                 ToTalStorage™ 

                 the e-business logo

                 xSeries
                 
                 pSeries

                 HelpCenter

                 Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft
                 Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
                
                 Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or
                 registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United
                 states, other countries, or both.

                 UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United 
                 States and other countries.

                 Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

                 Other company, product, and service names may be 
                 trademarks or service marks of others.

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8.0   Disclaimer
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