Here are the release notes as posted on their forum...
1571:
Updater runs out of DOS instead of Windows
-Enables fixing of failed firmware installation characterized by “Yatapdong Barefoot ROM ATA”
-Enables firmware updates on Apple Mac
-Updater no longer requires AHCI mode
-Updater compatibility instability with nVidia chipsets fixed
-Bug Fix: ATA Security command now working in AHCI mode
-Bug Fix: When receiving invalid SMART subcommands, abort is now sent to host to minize long delays
-Bug Fix: Corrected values of some SMART attribute data initialization
-Bug Fix: ATA Security Command now returning correct values
-Enables life expectancy calculation
-Other internal bug corrections
1819:
- Change: SATA Rx SSC is turned off by default. Now Rx SSC = off, Tx SSC = off.
- Change: IDENTIFY word 69 bit 14 is cleared. (Non deterministic trim.)
- Change: IDENTIFY word 60-61 are changed. (User addressable logical sectors for LBA28)
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug in Error handling in Set Multiple mode command.
- Change: FPDMA error return code was not adequate.
- Change: Changed remaining life calculation formula.
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug that caused 1.5Gbps diagnostic failure.
- Change: SMART related changes were made. (BBM error log was removed.)
- Bug fix: SMART related bugs were fixed. (MLC Max PE count was displayed as 100k.)
- Change: Improved ATA8 ACS2 TRIM support
- Enhancement: Build process was enhanced.
- Enhancement: SATA error handling code was enhanced.
- Bug fix: Current ATA Security state was not reflected in IDENTIFY information.
- Bug fix: Performance boost routine reused the recently used block and it did harm to wear
leveling.
- Bug fix: After STANDBY_IMMEDIATE, most host controllers wait for OOB reply only for 100ms.
Sometimes Barefoot firmware couldn’t answer to COMRESET because FTL initialization took longer
time. This bug caused Windows Sleep/Hibernate test failure.
- Bug fix: Various read fail scenario were found with FTL simulation.
In addition, it was stated:
I believe the latest firmware has an emphasis on stability across different platforms, thus sacrificing some performance decreases.
I'm shocked that it still requires the jumper and is destructive when the OCZ Vertex drives (they are basically the same drives) have a jumper-free, non-destructive flash process.
