M1015 & P20

[digitalfixer]

Last week I updated the firmware on my M1015 to the latest version from LSI, P20.

 

All the drives attached to this card started giving lots of errors when I started a parity check.

 

Smartctl showed they all had UDMA_CRC_Error_Count errors.

 

I had to completely clear the card and then reflash to P19 as trying to go from P20 to P19 failed, now a parity check is showing up error free.

 

Does anybody know how to clear the UDMA_CRC_Error_Count value on the drive.

 

Kevin

[sureguy]

I doubt that you can.  You shouldn't be able to change smart error values, if just for the purpose of resale

 

[c3]

What are the details of drives?

 

Before reflashing did you attempt to work the cabling for problems?

[digitalfixer]

c3

 

I've had no problems with drives in the 3 years the server has been running. CRC errors happened after the P20 update.

 

Went back to P19 and all is well again so I don't think it's anything to do with cabling.

 

Kevin.

[enetec]

9211-8i fw P20 rev. 20.00.02.00 should have solved that issue since what's reported on changelog.

 

I'm using it on Windows 7 environment on 2xSSD RAID0 with no issue at all. 

[enetec]

Just bought another M1015 and crossflashed to P20 v.20.00.02.00 IR mode to use with my desktop PC.

 

All fine as ever! 

[digitalfixer]

Might be alright with Windows but while P19 works fine with unraid I'll stay on it.

 

Kevin