IBM System Storage™ DS4000 Linux RDAC multipath driver package version 09.01.B5.21
FOR USE IN LINUX 2.6 KERNEL OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS ONLY. 

Note: For Linux 2.4 kernel operating system environments, please refer to 
the IBM DS4000 Linux RDAC package version 09.01.A5.xx instead. 


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Last Update Date:  02/15/2006


      Version 09.00.B5.21   -    2/15/2006     
      This version of RDAC includes the following maintenance fixes:
      
        - CMVC 298183 (95418) RDAC driver panics while alternatively
                resetting controllers
        - 93297 mppUpdate utility is broken in the 2.6 Linux RDAC driver
        - 93058 Linux RDAC driver fails to install on an Itanium IA64bit
                SuSE SLES 9 platform 
        
        - CMVC 289294 (91567) After removing the modules in this order
                in LoP servers - rmmod mppVhba, rmmod lpfcdd, rmmod 
                mppUpper and then, attempting to reload them in reverse 
                order, the first "modprobe mppUpper" will cause a kernel 
                panic.
        - 91655 (91620) IO might hang during certain heavy IO loads
        - 91776 Fix symbol_get Error message at mppVhba module load up 

      Version 09.00.B5.07   -    8/30/2005    
      - Support for RedHat EL 4 update 1 (RHEL4-u1) kernel for Linux on Power
        (LoP) servers
      - Support for the AMD64 and EM64T servers running x86_64 versions of 
        the Linux SLES9 or RHEL 4 operating systems
      - Fix CMVC 289294 (91567): After removing the modules in this order
        in LoP servers - rmmod mppVhba, rmmod lpfcdd, rmmod mppUpper and 
        then, attempting to reload them in reverse order, the first "modprobe 
        mppUpper" will cause a kernel panic.
      
      Version 09.00.B5.04   -    6/30/2005    
      - Support for RedHat EL 4 update 1 (RHEL4-u1) kernel for Linux servers
        other than the Linux on Power (LoP) servers (ie. Intel 32bit 
        architecture (Pentium III, Pentium 4, Zeon ...), Intel 64bit 
        architecture (Itanium), Intel EM64T architecture or AMD 64bit 
        (Opteron ...) )
      - Support for SuSE SLES 9 Service Pack 1 kernel for all Linux servers
        (LoP and non-LoP servers)
      - Support for the DS4800 storage subsystems with controller firmware 
        version 06.15.11.xx. With this version of firmware, the DS4800 
        controllers utilize all of the available data cache memory 
        installed in each controller blade for I/O caching. Previously 
        with controller firmware version 06.14.xx.xx, the DS4800 
        controllers used only the first 1G bytes of the installed data 
        cache memory per controller for I/O caching.

      Version 09.01.B5.02   -    05/18/2005
      - This is the initial release of the IBM System Storage™ DS4000 Linux 
        RDAC multipath driver to support the Linux 2.6 kernel operating 
        system environments. This RDAC driver is supported on SuSE SLES 9 
        update 1 Linux on Power servers only.