SATA Disks Issues with OEL 5.8 uek 64Bit

Hi Oracle Linux Experts/Tech Gurus!,
We are facing lot of issues with SATA disks at both Internal and External,
if we use any SATA USB External Disk it make server hang and sometimes restart
We face this issues with external SATA ARRAY connected at DS-3400
1. Files under this SATA disk partition is gone.
2. Disk free space not release after deleted files
3. Server got hang and restarted many times
4. Disk IO Performance is very slow
(hdparm -t result 70MB/secs earlier it was 130MB/secs with RHEL32)
This issues we are facing with this SATA disk array on SAN DS-3400 connected via QLA2460 Qlogic 4G Fiber HBA Card.
We are not faced any issues before with RHEL32Bit OS on this same HW Setup, once we changed to OEL5.8 64
Please help us to fix this issue with SATA Disks on this OEL 5.8.
Thanks & Regards,
Prabhakar.D
Edited by: dpprabhuindia on May 14, 2013 7:08 PM

And here is the output of scli -i (SANSurfer cli tool)
~]# scli -i
Host Name : xxxxxxxx
HBA Instance : 0
HBA Model : QLA2460
HBA Description : QLA2460 PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb FC Single Channel
HBA ID : 0-QLA2460
HBA Alias :
HBA Port : 1
Port Alias :
Node Name : 20-00-00-E0-8B-8B-25-F8
Port Name : 21-00-00-E0-8B-8B-25-F8
Port ID : 61-09-13
Serial Number : GFC0640H84421
Driver Version : 8.03.07.08.32.1-k
BIOS Version : 1.12
Driver Firmware Version : 5.03.13 (496)
Flash BIOS Version : 1.12
Flash FCode Version : 1.16
Flash EFI Version : 1.04
Flash Firmware Version : 4.00.18
Actual Connection Mode : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate : 4 Gbps
PortType (Topology) : NPort
Target Count : 1
PCI Bus Number : 6
PCI Device Number : 1
HBA Status : Online
Host Name : xxxxxxxxxxxxx
HBA Instance : 1
HBA Model : QLA2460
HBA Description : QLA2460 PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb FC Single Channel
HBA ID : 1-QLA2460
HBA Alias :
HBA Port : 1
Port Alias :
Node Name : 20-00-00-E0-8B-92-FB-B6
Port Name : 21-00-00-E0-8B-92-FB-B6
Port ID : 61-0B-13
Serial Number : RFC0641M26491
Driver Version : 8.03.07.08.32.1-k
BIOS Version : 1.12
Driver Firmware Version : 5.03.13 (496)
Flash BIOS Version : 1.12
Flash FCode Version : 1.16
Flash EFI Version : 1.04
Flash Firmware Version : 4.00.18
Actual Connection Mode : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate : 4 Gbps
PortType (Topology) : NPort
Target Count : 1
PCI Bus Number : 10
PCI Device Number : 1
HBA Status : Online
Please advice how to upgrade firmware for this HBA Card
Edited by: dpprabhuindia on May 14, 2013 7:14 PM

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