【Product Change】Adaptec 315x Firmware Upgrade
1/1/2024
We have recently received product change notice from manufacturer for the following products. This announcement takes effective immediately. Please review this notice carefully and contact with product manager or your regional representatives, should you have any question.
Description of the Change
1. Microchip adds non-Micron alternative to the Adaptec Smart RAID boards 315x (3151-4i, 3152-8i, 3154-8i, 3154-8e, 3154-16i, 3154-8i8e, 3154-8i16e, 3154-24i).
2. In order to “…support the alternative NAND (SolidigmB16A/B17A and Kioxia TH58TEGX) flash components, Adapters built with these NAND components require firmware release 6.52 or greater and firmware downgrade will be block to previous releases.” The above statement on the section 2.2.1.1. of the SR 2.8.2 release note.
3. Firmware release 6.52 for testing: https://download.adaptec.com/raid/asr/fw_bios/adaptec_smartfwx100_v6_52_b0.zip
Milestone
- Effective Date: 2024/1/1
- Start Date: Running Change
- Last Shipment Date: Running Change
- Cut-in Implementation: Running Change
Affected Products
- 96RC-SAS-4P-PE-AD8 / ADAPTEC 3151-4i 4pt. 12GB/S SAS PCIe 3.0 x8 1GB
- 96RC-SAS-16-PE-AD7 / ADAPTEC 3154-8i8e 16pt. 12Gb/s SAS PCIe 3.0 x8 4GB
- 96RC-SAS-16-PE-AD8 / ADAPTEC 3154-16i 16pt. 12Gb/s SAS PCIe 3.0 x8 4GB
*Should you have any question regarding products, please contact Advantech sales representative for purchasing information.
