Intel Matrix Storage Manager
    Production Version 8.0.0.1039
    Release Notes

April 18, 2008

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Supported Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows Vista*
    Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition*
    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition*
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional*
    Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition*

    Microsoft Windows Server 2008* ++
    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition*++    
Microsoft Windows Server 2003* ++
    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition*++

    Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition*

++ Not available on mobile platforms

 

Revision History

Date

Driver Revision

Build Number

Apr 18, 2008

PV 8.0.0.1039

1039

Apr. 11, 2008

PC 8.0.0.1038

1038

Feb. 28, 2008

Beta 8.0.0.1030

1030

Jan. 25, 2008

Beta 8.0.0.1027

1027

Nov. 21, 2007

Alpha 8.0.0.1014

1014

Jun. 8, 2007

Pre-Alpha 8.0.0.1006

1006

Notes:  

RAID OROM Update:

Below is the list of OROM skus for ICH10R controller and ICH9M-E controller. For RAID option ROM for older controllers please refer the 8.0.0.1014 alpha kit# 12382 or General OROM and System BIOS kit# 12913.

1)    RAID option ROM and utilities for ICH10R: We have two SKUs released for ICH10R

         One SKU with all features supported in ICH10R for 8.0 which is released along with this kit(13312). This SKU supports RAID0/1/5/10, Intel Rapid Recover Technology and support for data volumes >=2TB.

         Second SKU that supports Base RAID (RAID0/1/5/10) capability and support for data volumes greater than or equal to 2TB released as a separate kit#13310.

2)      RAID option ROM and utilities for ICH9M-E: This SKU supports RAID0/1, Intel Rapid Recover Technology and and allows only Intel Rapid Recover Technology volumes to span eSATA.

Possible Issue regarding File writes on Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Issue description: System hangs, ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA observed when writing large numbers of files on Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

Resolution: Contact Microsoft* to receive the hot fix described by KB article 888413.

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in PV 8.0.0.1039

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2549604

IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT_IDENTIFY not implemented for RAID volumes

Vista

2549948

Creation of a RAID0 volume fails when disk used for creation is a spanned or dynamic disk

Vista

2519035

D-state cycling single disk during initialization 3 drive RAID5 causes volume to fail after pulling power to a single drive

Vista

2518139

User Interface Basic mode displays unknown port when 2 disks have smart errors

Windows XP

2332390

JPN: inconsistent font style and font size in Create Recovery Volume dialog

Vista, Windows XP

106461

A drive created on a RAID0 Volume continues to exist and be written to after manual removal of a HDD from the array

Vista-64

106842

'Volume Creation Completed' message covered by Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface

Windows XP

2076615

Splash screen displays for extended period of time at boot

Windows XP

2330169

CHS: Next button corrupted on Welcome screen of Create Recovery Volume Wizard, Convert Recovery Volume to RAID 1 Wizard, and Modify Recovery Volume Wizard.

Vista

2436506

RAID0 volume is reporting Normal in Console when all of its member drives are failed

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows Media Center, Windows XP-64

2516739

BSOD for all calls to SMART_SEND_DRIVE_COMMAND

Vista, Vista-64

2551838

PCMark* 2005 fails on a system that has a cached RAID boot volume

Vista

2551867

Tray icon hover message opens at the same time as the tray icon message bubble

Vista, Vista-64

2552285

Unable to create RAID volume when sufficient drives are present after hot-remove/reinsert

Windows XP-64

2552445

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - On Request Bootable Volumes show different behavior when using Ghost v/s Fresh Operating System Install

Vista

2553015

When initiating RAID1 rebuild will get message Wizard unable to start rebuild process but rebuild happens

Windows XP

2451607

Console does not update status of hot plugged eSATA when rebuilding RAID 1

Windows XP

2553259

UI-TRK-DEU-8.0 -Basic Mode right hand pane text box too small for displaying "Port X"

Vista

2330162

User Interface Progress dialog: progress bar missing, bitmap corrupted or missing, or cut text

Vista

2553091

Check for Correct Recovery Volume, selecting BACK during creation causes recovery drive to change

Vista-64

2554032

Partition disappeared but the disk did not in Vista failing RAID 10 testing

Vista

2554217

IOMeter* sequential writes on 6-disk R5 slow

Vista, Vista-64, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center, Windows XP-64, Windows 2003-64

2554610

IAAMonitor App not responding while shutdown after Safe Mode installation

Windows XP

2554680

File write performance degraded with Gen II drives and Cache On

Vista, Windows XP

2553965

Unable to load driver using f6 during system repair or system restore process under Vista

Vista, Vista-64

2555571

120 second hang with SSD on ICH8M

Vista, Vista-64

77332

Failure to enumerate disk causes crash in Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Windows XP

2553384

SATA ODD never gets spin down request or D1 power event

Vista

2554879

Driver property page port location information is incorrect on Cantiga

Windows XP

2555515

System lock due to low memory with DVD playing and IO

Windows 2003

2556048

Drive size error message appears while adding a disk to a volume

Vista

2556588

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Degraded/Normal/Master Offline goes Normal on failed volume

Vista

2556593

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Degraded/Syncing state, recovery disk failure/remove does not match state table

Vista

2556715

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Sync does not re-start with invalid partner in manual sync mode

Vista-64

2556718

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Basic Mode - Extra port number shown on the right side of the Volume Picture

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP

2556799

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Fast sync log is corrupt if no data is written to new volume

Vista-64

2556876

System takes 1-2 minutes to fully enter into hibernation when disk write back cache is disabled

Workaround: Enable disk write back cache

Vista

2557059

The system fails to resume from hibernation when disk write back cache is disabled

Workaround: Enable disk write back cache

Vista

2485740

SMART IOCTL commands to pass-thru drives do not return the correct values in user's data structures

Windows XP

2556732

DC Mode Enable continuous mode  button label does not change in basic mode once the recovery volume level is changed from 'request' to 'continuous'

Windows XP

2556767

Creating a volume from an existing disk during migration of another volume returns an error message that the existing the wizard need to close before opening a new wizard

Vista, Vista-64, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2556947

BSOD 0x7B after install driver in AHCI mode when drive with metadata in the system

Vista-64

106796

DC Mode - Disable Continuous Updates button does not disable continuous updates

Windows XP

2557191

BSOD or unexpected reboot appears sporadically in AC/DC test for Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume

Windows XP

2662456

Message stating recovery drive synchronization was successful after switching from AC-DC when it did not complete

Windows XP

2662476

Intel Matrix Storage Manager console stops responding during a spare rebuild

Vista

2662484

Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface allows Disk Expansion using SATA and eSATA drives

Vista

2662487

Modification of Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume fails, but RAID level changes

Windows XP

2662498

0x8086 BSOD when verifying RAID 0 volume with bad block

Vista-64

2662520

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: User Interface wizard allows user to select non-OS drive as a master drive when there are only 2 drives

Vista

2662524

0xD5 BSOD with Driver Verifier while hot-plugging

Vista-64

2662557

BSOD or fatal error occurs: "Unable to come out of hibernation" when waking up from S4 state

Vista-64

2662580

Hot (Un)Plug: System does not respond to unplug event

Vista-64, Windows XP

2662601

SATA port disappears in User Interface when CD-drive is replaced with hard drive

Vista-64

2662611

Cannot hide the Recovery drive in a Bootable Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume Intel Matrix Storage Manager console stops responding

Vista

2557492

Windows Explorer does not show Recovery Drive when Access Recovery Drive Files option is selected in Intel Matrix Storage Manager console

Vista-64

2662555

When there is heavy system I/O, a 15 second system hang is sporadically observed with some HDDs

Vista

2662542

Driver deadlocks while running hot plug script while hot plugging an ATAPI device

Vista-64

2662571

Windows boots slowly

Vista

2662636

Device Initiated Power Management is not working for SATA ODDs

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2552826

Storage Query Property Test Fails

Vista, Vista-64

2662659

System hangs after hot plug of E-SATA drive is detected

Vista-64

 

 

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in PV 8.0.0.1039

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2662689   

WHQL related 0xD1 BSOD on ICH8M in AHCI mode with Driver Verifier "Force IRQL Checking" Enabled

Windows XP

 

Resolved Issues in PC 8.0.0.1038

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2552430   

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - After deleting an Intel Rapid Recover Technology  volume, cannot reset recovery disk to non-RAID disk without a reboot

Vista

2553432   

Inconsistent Volume Size between OROM User Interface and Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface

Vista

2556215

"Modification of Recovery volume failed" banner pops up when trying to modify volume to Continuous mode in DC mode

Vista

2556817

Memory leak caught by Driver Verifier

Vista-64

2556922

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Continuous Mode - Degraded volume does not show expected behavior when Master drive is attached

Other, Windows XP

2557036

Message "Failed RAID volume detected. Recover volume? (Y/N):" appears even when pressing Y

Vista-64

2557094

Removing Recovery Drive from a OnRequest Degraded IRRT volume(RD2) set master offline

Windows XP

2557014

Verification of bootable IRRT volume with F6 Vista 64 install shows 65535 errors

Vista-64

2556717

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Volume Failure during Mounted partner is not handled by OROM correctly upon reboot

Vista-64

2556725

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Failed disk while syncing, User Interface displays "sync completed successfully"

Vista

2556901

BSOD after an Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume is created with Vista64, DC power mode, and Intel Rapid Recover Technology only OROM SKU

Vista-64

2556998

BSOD with Intel Rapid Recovery Technology volume on reboot while Intel Matrix Storage Manager is verifying volume after power down and pulling master drive

Vista-64

2557005

Mounted recovery disk allowed to be marked as spare in User Interface

Windows XP

2662478

Right-Click option does not show up when recovering Recovery drive to a new drive

Vista

2662525

System hangs on "Shutting down" screen while doing a Restart

Vista-64

2662537

Infinite enumeration loop during hot plug

Vista-64

2662546

Power Cycle Count not reliably updated following resume from S3 (and possibly S4 too)

Vista

2555407

System unable to write data to driver after hot swap of drive.

Windows XP

2662518

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Manual or continuous sync does not update data on recovery drive

Vista

2662585

Burning data to recordable CD/DVD fails to complete in Vista x64.

Vista-64

2552415

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - OROM shows Disable Continuous Update when already in Manual Sync

Vista

2443825

ARA: R to L is not enabled on error messages added for Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Vista, Windows XP

2556355

When mounting recovery drive in Intel Rapid Recover Technology (onRequest) volume, disk management tool does not come up

Vista

2549947

Inconsistent messages given when modify volume is invoked in User Interface

Vista

2518659

BSOD observed when installing Diskeeper 2007

Vista

2444310

BSOD observed when using F6 install method on Intel Matrix Storage Manager on ICH6M platform

Windows XP

2550620

Hot Plugging member disk of a RAID 5 volume does not begin rebuilding to spare

Vista

2551572

Basic Mode Buttons are visible even if >2 drives are connected

Windows XP

2552421

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - User Interface provides option to access master drives even though it is an invalid partner

Vista

2552423

Intel Rapid Recover Technology User Interface locks up when accessing recovery disk

Vista

2553224

BSOD loading Intel Turbo Memory driver over Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver

Vista

2553238

Re-enumeration sends COMRESETs to all ports

Vista, Windows XP

2549955

Adding a third drive while rebuilding a RAID 1 volume locks up System if member drive is full

Vista

2553383

SATA HDD never gets spin down request while system is idle

Vista

2554495

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Partner mounted driver allows modify action to convert from on request to continuous mode, resulting in invalid operation modes

Vista, Windows XP

2556541

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Failed partner goes to syncing in manual sync without user interaction

Vista-64

2556543

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: User is allowed to switch to manual mode when partner mounted

Vista-64

 

Resolved Issues in Beta 8.0.0.1030

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2555538

Burning data to recordable CD/DVD fails to complete

Vista

2556481

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Creating Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume (continuous) in DC mode should go to On Request with offline member

Vista

2556716

 

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Advanced Mode - Hide Recovery Drive Right-click option does not work

Vista, Windows XP

105085

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Switching to battery power after deleting a volume causes a BSOD

Vista, Vista-64

106666

Booting from a Master in a Broken Clone causes no Recovery volume available error

None

2551224   

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - When Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume is in manual synch, reboot to OROM, option to enable Recovery disk is not available. Enable Master only and the Master/Recovery are swapped in User Interface

Windows XP

2552414   

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - OROM incorrectly states "There are no recovery volumes available"

Vista

2552416   

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Cannot recover from Manual sync - Broken clone mode in OROM

Vista

2552417   

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - In degraded mode, OROM will not allow disabling continuous sync

Vista

2554716

Enable Master/Recovery option in OROM User Interface not working when Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume is in Broken Recovery volume

Windows XP

2553329   

Button Inconsistency in the Access Recovery Drive Files Information dialog

Vista

2553538

Enabling write caching" policy is disabled after first iteration of S3(Standby) and S4(Hibernate)

Vista

2554231

System fail to boot sporadically after reboot

Other

2554494

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Partner mounted User Interface allows modify action to convert from on request to continuous mode

Vista, Windows XP

2555402

Degraded RAID Volume Tray Icon message appears in AHCI mode

Vista-64

2556539

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: In manual mode, clone is used when master is removed

Vista-64

2556704

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: User Interface fails to load plug-ins when no volumes on the system

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP

2556722

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Advanced Mode - Disable Continuous Update right-click does not work in Advanced Mode

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2556752

OROM User Interface Setting Failed Disk to Offline via Recovery Volume Actions

None

2553027   

Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface displays a 1 drive RAID 5 volume

Windows XP

2554259

Default update policy is different in Basic Mode vs. Advanced Mode

Windows XP

2555108

No message displayed when creating a Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume with an un-partitioned Master smaller than the Recovery disk

Windows XP

2555110

Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface test: "Two user rejection" does not display any errors during second logon

Vista, Vista-64

2555463

AHCI Controller shown as "Unknown Controller" in Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface

Vista-64

2555474

User Interface allows R0 creation in basic mode with Intel Rapid Recover Technology only SKU

Vista, Windows XP

2555560

BSOD 0x8086 and 0x7E on 5 disk RAID 5

Vista-64

2555937

Formatting the partition in windows will fail with Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Windows XP

2555968

Raidcfg32 /x cannot be executed on not 'normal' RAID volume

Vista

2556375

RaidCfg32 deletes all volumes with /x /ds parameters if disk selection precedes good volumes

Windows XP

2556521

RaidCfg32 Improperly handles errors and faults with unsupported disk attributes fields from driver

Windows XP

2556620

RaidCfg32 /m parameter ignored for Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume master disk selection

Windows XP

2556621

RaidCfg32 fails on Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume creation if another volume already present

Windows XP

 

Resolved Issues in Beta 8.0.0.1027

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2549694

 eSATA HDD not visible in "Safely Remove" OS sys tray icon

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2553677

RaidCfg/RaidCfg32 display wrong error message

Vista, Windows XP, DOS

2554262

Intel Matrix Storage Console does not create volume with all possible space when 100% selected

Vista, Windows XP

2553676

BSOD while doing Multiple Hot-plugs on E-SATA and internal pass through drives using SATA MUX

Vista

2553525

eSATA Hot Plugs in AHCI causes BSOD

Vista-64

2438226

Update Recovery Volume failed to indicate progress of updates

Vista

2288759

Error observed when trying to modify Recovery volume in Manual Synch Mode

Windows Media Center

2552412

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Partner mounted pull online & other modes User Interface warns disks need to be set as non-raid when clone disk is removed in degraded mode

Vista

2553808

Unexpected menu item present under File and View

 

Vista

2552549

Security Frozen bit gets unset after resuming from S3

Vista, Windows XP

2553638

French Readme.txt not present under C:\\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Vista

2553935

Installer command line switch -a not working

Vista, Windows XP

2554049

Unable to delete RAID volumes on ICH9R

Vista-64, Windows XP

2199152

When a Recovery volume is failed by pulling the clone disk while doing a reverse sync then if it auto-recovers by re-inserting the clone disk and re-booting, it recovers back to degraded but it doesn't automatically continue the reverse synchronization.

Vista, Vista-64, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center, Windows XP-64, Windows 2003-64

2328720

Recovery Volume shows up in the Storage User Interface console with the No Intel Rapid Recover Technology OROM sku

All OSs

2552422

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - User Interface allows right click modify volume even when volume is failed

Vista

2553065

RAID Option ROM cannot return correct HDD name strings to system BIOS when more than 4 HDDs are attached

DOS 6.22

2553286

Basic Mode Access Recovery Files Info Dialog Line Space Missing

Vista

2553291

Basic Mode Access Recovery Files Info Dialog Line Duplicate Asterisk (*)

Vista

2553310

Basic Mode Right Pane All but two Subtitle String Missing Period

Vista

2553682

Close wizard message appears when attempting to convert second RAID 1 to Intel Rapid Recovery Technology on Cantiga

Vista

2450472

IOMeter sequential writes on 6-disk R5 are slow

 

All OSs

2552560 

Can not extract the F6 utility on a Vista system

Vista

2554069

Advanced Mode Right Pane tab title should read Information instead of Configuration

 

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2554258

Intel Rapid Recover Technology sku shows R1 Array as Normal Instead of Incompatible

Vista

2554214

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Cannot Un-mount/Un-hide Recovery drive after mounting/un-hiding it

Windows XP

2554532

Recover Data to Master of a Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume that has an external drive as the recovery will hang at 0%

Vista

2554606

With external drive, cannot create Intel Rapid Recover Technology volumes in advanced mode but can in basic

Vista-64, Windows XP

2555011

BSOD while running IO MTTester or Patin and playing a DVD while doing Power Management Iterations

Vista-64

2552022

eSATA Bootable RAID volume becomes degraded after first reboot during operating system installation

Vista

2553677

RaidCfg/RaidCfg32 display wrong error message when right disks are not mentioned during creation of recovery volume

DOS 6.22

2554262

User Interface does not create volume with all possible space when 100% selected

Windows XP

 

 

Resolved Issues in Alpha 8.0.0.1014

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2552584

TSST TS-L633A DVD drive does not show up in OS

Windows XP

2484069

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Volume Disappears if Master Drive is unplugged during a manual sync

Vista

2552410

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Volume state inaccurate after removing clone disk from master mounted mode

Vista

2552411

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - Volume disappears and master reverts to non-RAID

Vista

2552412

Intel Rapid Recover Technology User Interface warns disks need to be set as non-RAID when clone disk is removed in degraded mode

Vista

2448268

Installer generates file copying not successful error due to Readme

Vista

2516044

Driver incorrectly marks Intel Rapid Recover Technology Volume initialized resulting in verification errors

Windows XP

2254070

Fails to convert RAID1 volume to Recovery volume

Windows XP

2256215

Create Recovery volume lets user to select the same drive both for master and for recovery in Intel Matrix Storage Console

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP, Windows Media Center, Windows XP-64

2444233

Problem with ATA PASS THRU on Windows XP

Vista

2451533

Raidcfg32 creates a 3 disk RAID10 and doesn't  the 4th disk which has the boot drive

Windows XP

2449278

UI_RUS_The error message in RAID creation verifying 2TB incompatible translation is incorrect

Vista, Windows XP

2485715

RAID1 status changes to degraded during reboot test

Vista, Windows XP

2516284

BSOD observed when creating a RAID volume with RAIDcfg32

Vista

2517191

Migration status Dialogs title bar does not update in Windows Taskbar

Windows XP

2518404

Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface Does Not Correctly Display Port 4 on Cantiga

Vista

2518656

SATA tape devices assigned wrong device type in Windows registry with Matrix driver on S3000AH

Windows Server 2003

2550577

Write Cache enable-disable doesn't work on RAID volumes

Vista

2550578

OROM User Interface does not allow port 4 disk to be selected for RAID volume creation

MS DOS

2517566

Monitor sends SMART commands to ATAPI devices (not appropriate)

Windows XP

2550696

Write Cache - SCSI compliance tests fail when run on a volume that's not the boot device

Vista

2551355

Right-click option on Array to enable/disable disk cache shown but inoperable

Vista

2553335

BSOD with Driver Verifier

Windows XP