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OCZ Sandforce SSD Firmware 1.23 Update and Toolbox release!!
Sandforce OCZ ssds firmware update 1.23. And the first toolbox also.
(Vertex2, Agility2, Vertex-LE, Vertex2 Pro, Vertex2-EX, Vertex2-E, Agility2-E)
Suggest reading the threads and any other user experiences first entirely to see what to expect about/any bugs, which seems to have some.
Sounds like it might be an interim update, meaning another one may come along a little later on. But who knows when that will be.
Warning
If using Intel RST drivers later than 9.6.0.1014, (like the 10 version), you need to roll back to that 9 version for the ssdupdate to see the drive successfully to flash firmware. Then can re-install 10 version if you wish after the update and reboot.
They say toolbox won't work with higher (10 version Intel RST drivers) though.Information
Changes/additions since version 1.11
• Added support for a new capacity point: usable size (raw capacity) 360GB (392GB)
Issues resolved since version 1.11
• Improved latency behavior. This change does not impact average latency but rather reduces worst case latency
• Modified IDENTIFY data to indicate that the SANITIZE feature set is supported.
• Modified temperature read data functionality.
• Added extra handling of parity errors for improved Soft Error handling
• Added threshold value for SMART attribute 177 (B1h)
• Fixed the output of the IDENTIFY DEVICE request to properly indicate if the SMART Feature Set is enabled or disabled.
• Enabled flash write protection whenever core voltage is turned off.
• Corrected rare case where SATA link could be dropped during a write operation
• Improved handling of aborted NCQ commands
• Fixed corner case hang condition by properly handling a host issued COMRESET during the last DWORD of an NCQ data commend.
• Modified command handling to give precedence to COMRESET in the case of COMRESET during another SATA error
• Fixed a panic condition by correctly cleaning up after an internal DMA transfer.
• Modified SSD Life Left calculations that were sometimes reading low on new drives
• Fixed an issue that occurred when two commands are waiting for each other to complete.
• Fixed FW to handle a RAISE RAM parity error without panic
Changes/additions since version 1.21
• None.
Issues resolved since version 1.21
• Mitigated the possibility of data loss to last 10 minutes of real time maximum when drive is used with Windows 7 OS, drive indexing, and very slow rate of writing and drive experiences an unsafe shutdown.
• Fixed a rare condition in which a drive could hang on a SLEEP command.
Known open issues:
• SMART command B0 occasionally returns incorrect status.
• Trim command response times are longer than desired.
• Can't write-same the whole drive.
• Resetting SMART PHY event counters has no effect.
• Whitmore Lake (Intel 3100) Chipset Compatibility.
• Drive may fail during power cycling test with rapid and short cycles.
• Compatibility issue during Red Hat 5.4 Linux boot on nVidia MCP55 chipset
• Sleep followed by non-data commands can sometimes cause the drive to fail to respond to the nondata command.
1.23 Firmware
Toolbox
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Last edited by Airbot; 21 Oct 2010 at 11:25.