Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
    Production Version 8.5.0.1032
    Release Notes


July 29, 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

July 29,2008

Production  Version 8.5.0.1032

1032

July 22,2008

Production  Candidate 8.5.0.1032

1032

July 3,2008

Production Candidate 8.5.0.1030

1030

May 30,2008

Beta 8.5.0.1020

1020

May 9,2008

Alpha 8.5.0.1018

1018

April 11,2008

Alpha 8.5.0.1015

1015

March 21, 2008

Alpha 8.5.0.1013

1013

Notes:  

RAID OROM Update:

Below are the list of OROM skus’s updated with this release. For other RAID option ROM sku’s for older controllers please refer the 8.0.0.1014 alpha kit# 12382, 8.0.0.1039 kit#13312 or General OROM and System BIOS kit# 12913.

RAID option ROM and utilities for ICH10R/DO: We have two skus released for ICH10DO support

·         Base SKU (kit#14388): Supports a limited set of features that include RAID (levels 0/1/5/10) capability, HDD Password, and Danbury.

·         Full Feature SKU (kit#14387): Supports the full set of IMSM features and includes RAID (levels 0/1/5/10) capability, HDD Password, Danbury, Intel® Rapid Recovery Technology, Intel® Turbo Memory, PCI 3.0, and Data volume >= 2T

RAID option ROM and utilities for ICH9R: This sku includes support for RAID0/1/5/10, support for data volumes >=2TB, Intel® Turbo Memory and available with kit#14387

RAID option ROM and utilities for ICH9M-E: This sku supports RAID0/1, Intel(R) Rapid Recover Technology, Intel® Turbo Memory, HDD Password support, eSATA blocking feature, PCI 3.0 and available with kit#14387

 

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 Production Version 8.5.0.1032

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

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

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

2552285   

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

Windows XP-64

2553015   

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

Windows XP

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

All OS’s

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 w/ 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

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

2662527

CSMI_SAS_RAID_SET_STATUS has invalid value

Windows XP

2662528

CSMI_SAS_RAID_DRIVES has invalid value On a two drive RAID system DriveCount

Windows XP

2662529

CMSI - When disk is removed, the serial number of this disk is not erased

Windows XP

2554851

Default blinking behavior for Activate port LED is ‘slow blinking’ instead of  "On" (non-blinking), the expected behavior

 

Vista

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

2556766

Modification of one volume fails during migration of a different volume

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

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

2556995

UI_HEB_ARA: Unlock Hard Drive messages need to be RTL-enabled

Vista

2557173

ATA command SET MAX ADDRESS EXT does not work properly on Vista64

Vista-64

2662461

Action unavailable to “Delete volume” or “Reset HDD to Non RAID” in Intel® Matrix Storage Manager console, when you try to delete a unsupported recovery volume or reset the member disk of the recovery volume under Intel® Matrix Storage Manager console on ICH9R

Workaround: To delete recovery volume or reset disk to non RAID, go to OROM UI

Windows XP-64

2662476

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Console Stops Responding During a Spare Rebuild

Vista

2662487

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: User gets message that "Modification of recovery volume failed" when trying to modify the volume from onRequest to Continuous through modify volume wizard, but recovery volume is being changed from onRequest to Recovery Continuous

Windows XP

2662524

D5 BSOD with Driver Verifier While Hot Plugging from one drive to another on same port

Vista-64

2662498

BSOD when verifying RAID 0 volume with bad block

Vista-64

2662475

A Dirty Shutdown of a Recovery volume while in DC mode will cause the volume to fail instead of causing the fast-synch log to be invalidated

Windows XP

2556947

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

Vista-64

2662540

RAID volume rebuilding happens on different volume than it is suggested by UI Wizard when two degraded volumes are available on the system

Windows XP

2662542

Driver stops enumerating hotplug events while hot plugging an ATAPI device

Vista-64

2662548

Text misaligned in Modify Volume Wizard 3rd screen

Vista

2662557

System BSOD’s  sporadically when system is coming out of hibernation

Vista-64

2662561

Intel matrix storage manager stall I/O to a disk connected with bad sata cable and does not restart

Vista

2662580

System does not sporadically respond to unplug event and shows the drive as still available

Vista-64,Windows XP

2662601

Sata port disappears in UI when hotswap cd-drive with hard drive.

Vista-64

2662520

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

Vista

2662523

Creation of raid volume failed when another drive [which is not involved in setup] is pulled out. Issue does not occur with scenario "create from existing"

Vista

2662501

UI_HEB_ARA: Bitmap image appears in title of Create Recovery Volume Wizard screens

Vista

2553774

RAID Volume is missing and Raidcfg32 cannot delete RAID volume once the HDD has spun down

Vista

2687790

Device Initiated Power Management is not working for SATA ODDs

Vista

2662626

8086 BSOD while hotplugging with ODD while system is still enumerating just after hotplugging the HDD

Vista-64

2662633

Driver misses hot-unplug events with Link Power Management disabled in registry

Vista-64

2662681

Host Initiated Power Management_ Device Initiated Power Management registry modification causes random ports to appear and disappear during hotplug.

Vista-64

2662682

BSOD with Host Initiated Power Management_ Device Initiated Power Management registry modification when hot plugging in two drives at once.

Windows XP

2662708

Recovery volume not accessible in Explorer when built with non-NCQ drive (WD-740)

Vista-64

2662744

8086 BSOD hotplugging a drive sporadically

Vista-64

2662748

RaidCfg32 does not support Danbury Technology in 8.5

All supported OS

2687769

UI-ARA-HEB-ELL-RUS-8.5.0.9154-MUI RCR: Port names are corrupted in the Basic Mode after creating RAID 1 volume

Windows XP

2330162

UI Progress dialog: progress bar missing, bitmap corrupted or missing, or cut text.

Vista

2330169

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

Vista

2332390

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

Vista

2556995

UI_HEB_ARA: Unlock Hard Drive messages need to be RTL-enabled

Vista

2662753

BSOD or UI unresponsive after pulling a drive and doing a rescan in IMSM UI Console when hot plug is disabled in the BIOS

Vista-64

2687793

Files are corrupted on R1 volume on a 2drive Raid1/Raid0 matrix volume after dirty shutdown with Volume Cache off.

Vista-64

2687830

UI(ELL/HUN): Cut text in dialogs with " - Encrypted" string

Vista

2687837

System locks up while running file i/o after reboot upon dirty shutdown while running file IO

Vista

2687840

OROM disk status shown as "Smart Event" for a two drive Raid0 volume after dirty shutdown while UI still displays as “Normal"

Vista

2687888

Hot plug of drive during DVD playback causes the movie to hang/halt

Windows XP

2687891

Offline disk part of recovery volume, not reset to non-raid when volume is deleted in OROM

Vista

2687894

UI-HUN-1019-The first option-" Enable Continuous Update"- on the right click menu of recovery Volume has corrupted characters.

Windows XP

2662746

Normal format would fail under windows on a greater than 2TB Raid0 volume

Windows 2003

2687812

SATA bus pulses affect particular ODD during slumber state

Vista

2687971

UI-CHT-Incorrect Translations on Error message when migrate a volume with encrypted hard drive

Vista

2687975

Data miscompare during power failure with volume cache off

Vista-64,Windows XP

2687978

Error resuming from S4 with IMSM Driver and Verifier turned on. Vista only

Vista,Vista-64

2687995

When a missed locked member disk of a degraded raid1 volume is plugged back and  unlocked in the BIOS, the locked member disk of the  raid 1 volume shows a status of "failed" in the IMSM UI or "Error Occurred" status at the OROM UI

Windows XP

2688016

Reads to a pass-thru drive hang during migration of 3 drive  RAID 0 volume to 4 drive RAID 0 volume and intermittent BSOD happens upon deleting the volume after hang when the Intel matrix storage manager console is open

Vista

2688020

Sporadic 8086 BSOD while running a test that does S4 cycling and lets the system idle for several minutes. 

Vista

2688044

Driver incorrectly sets sector count and attempts read beyond the last sector when reading meta data

Vista, Windows XP

2688052

0xD1 BSOD while running S4 in RAID1 configuration with Robson

Vista

2688056

While hot plugging by removing the power result in loss of power savings

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

2688060

Expansion of volume failed from four disk RAID5 to five disk RAID5

Vista-64

2688062

iastor.sys 7E BSOD while attempting to enter sleep state and perform IO, with Robson card

Vista,Vista-64

2688076

After enabling recovery drive in OROM and rebooting to OS upon master drive failure, Intel Matrix Storage Console failed to display the “Switch to Advance Mode View” button and partially displayed the Basic Mode GUI.

Workaround: Go to “View->Advance Mode” to see the drives and parameters

Windows XP

2688092

Disk Manager Does Not Show RAID Volume After Unlocking Passwords on Member Disk(s) in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager console

Vista

2687937

ODD icon does not update when unplugging the ODD

Windows XP

2687951

System hang after resume from S3/S4  when Access Recovery Files is set in Manual Sync mode

Windows XP,Vista-64

2688051

Device removal from eSATA port is not detected intermittently

Vista

2688055

System hangs intermittently when hot-plugging eSATA device

Vista

 

 

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in Production Candidate 8.5.0.1032

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2688178

0x7B BS intermittently observed upon reboot after installing Intel Matrix Storage Manager in AHCI aware mode

Vista,Vista-64

2687944

Intermittent BS 9F is happened when system goes into S3 while S3, S4, reboot, shutdown cycling test.

Vista

Resolved Issues in Production Candidate 8.5.0.1030

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2552826

WHQL: Storage Query Property Test FAILING (WLK1.1 Beta Preview Test)

Vista,Vista-64

2554896

HDD Password: hot inserted locked volume member disk doesn't show up under volume disks and shows up under non–raid drives

Vista, Windows XP

2556048

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

Vista

2662499

Readme file refers to -g switch without the necessary space after the g

Vista

2687892

English Readme has license information appended twice & Copy right year need to be updated

Vista

2662672

Right Clicking on any PORT under the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Console in AHCI mode causes console to stop working

Vista,Vista-64

2662686

D1 BSOD while attempting to enter sleep state and perform IO, with Intel® Turbo Memory

Vista-64

2687757

Disk write caching setting auto enable upon s3 resume from disable status prior to system exit s3

Windows XP, Vista

2687792

Stopped frame and stopped sound are happened when user watch DVD in AHCI aware mode

Vista

2687805

S4 resume time is too slow in AHCI aware mode

Vista

2687815

Tray Icon displays volume as degraded when volume is locked

Windows XP

2687833

For a 3 disk Raid 5 Locked volume OROM UI shows its offline members as member disks; upon unlocking the locked drive, the volume still shows up as "locked" in the OROM UI when all its members are unlocked and online.

Windows XP

2687842

"Recover Data to Master" option not available when master disk is offline in recovery volume.

Vista-64,Windows XP

2687853

After deleting a recovery volume in the OROM UI, a message box comes up that says “Failed Volume Detected. Recover? (Y/N)”

Vista-64

2687895

Pre-CTRL-I OROM screen does not display unlocked drive on reboot after Raid10 volume is deleted with one of the member drive locked

None

2687973

System hangs when plugging in an HDD and selecting “Rescan for Plug and Play Devices” when hotplug is disabled

Vista-64,Windows XP

2662638

A combination of leaving system idle followed by S3 cycling leads to 0x9F BSOD sporadically

Vista,Vista-64

2662656

Data miscompare error on a greater than 2TB RAID volume during migrations (migrations of data such as Create From Existing or Capacity Expansion)

Vista-64

2662708

Recovery volume not accessible in Explorer when built with non-NCQ drive

Vista,Vista-64

2687772

System Report string showed as "File not found"

Vista

2687963

Intel Matrix Storage Manager crashes intermittently ( BSOD: 0xA) while system is entering S3

Vista

2688035

Driver replaces the ODD device during enumeration on resume from S4

Vista

2688045

With multiple raid Volumes, the Modify RAID Volume Wizard does not work properly. When Clicking Back button to return to the Select Volume, and choosing the different Raid Volume in the wizard, clicking Next, to Modify Volume, the Wizard  tends to remember the first Raid Volume

Vista,Vista-64

2688038

Driver fails to disable Link Power Management after hibernation

Vista

2688030

System crashed on next reboot when running Volume Capacity Expansion with a > 2 TB boot volume

Vista,Vista-64

2687982

Unlocking Drive under Intel Matrix Storage Manager console causes a BSOD (4A)

Vista,Vista-64

2688095

System with SGPIO causes intermittent BSOD during s3/s4 cycles

Vista-64

Resolved Issues in Beta 8.5.0.1020

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2662655

0x8086 BSOD occurs sporadically after hot-plugging while doing IO on the drive hot-plugged

Windows XP

2687802

Intel Rapid Recover Technology - OROM incorrectly tries to Recover to a Failed disk that made the volume originally go degraded

NA

2687843

WHQL: Inability to Create Partitioning Schemes on Server 2003

Windows Server 2003

2557191

BSOD or unexpected reboot appears sporadically in when you switch from AC to DC for recovery volume

Windows XP

2662456

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

Windows XP

2662465

Driver returns error after toggling recovery volume sync mode from manual to continuous on DC power

Vista

2662722

Cannot boot to Vista OS after driver install when AHCI OROM is disabled, 0x7B BSOD after restart

Vista

2662725

Product icon is corrupted at Add-Remove in the Control Panel during uninstall after regional settings changed to other language intermittently

Windows XP

2687768

RaidCfg32 fails all attempts to autoselect the disks to create a volume when OS disk is detected. 

All supported OS


Resolved Issues in Alpha 8.5.0.1018

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2554897

UI does not display Locked volumes correctly and show them as degraded

Vista

2662639

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Basic Mode Console does not show the user they are in DC mode

Vista, Windows XP

2662653

Hotplugging on external ports with hot plugging disabled in BIOS causes infinite enumeration

Vista

2662662

Cannot create or migrate any RAID volumes through the user interface with Danbury enabled

Windows XP

2662547

OROM shows initialize state instead of degraded with a 4 drive RAID 10 volume consisting of a locked member disk.

N/A

2662723

OROM UI does not display an encrypted drive when Danbury is enabled

N/A

2662737

OROM hangs if a 5-disk Raid-5 volume is attached to a non-Raid-5 SKU

N/A

2556723

Intel Rapid Recovery Technology : Recovery volume status goes failed instead of degraded when recovery volume is unplugged

Windows XP

2662623

When running raidcply on a Danbury enabled system with a virtual controller, the raidcply utility doesn't identify the controller as RAID.

N/A

2662625

OROM checksum incorrectly set (RaidCply detects failure)

N/A

2662631

A Degraded R5 cannot be rebuilded within Intel Matrix Storage Manager console

Vista

2662644

Raidcfg Doesn't Load on Virtual Controller (VE)

N/A

2662585

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

Vista-64.

2556841

Cut text in drop down menu of recovery volume creation wizard

Vista

2556733

BSOD when requesting sync on recovery volume on ICH9R

Vista-64

2551867   

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

Vista, Vista-64

Resolved Issues in Alpha 8.5.0.1015

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2518659   

Blue screen observed when installing “Diskeeper 2007”

Vista

2444310   

Blue Screen 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

2553238   

Re-enumeration sends COMRESETs to all ports

Vista, Windows XP

2519037   

SUT Locks up while rebuilding R1 Volume and recording web-cam video (sporadic)

Vista

2553259   

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

Vista

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

2556541

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

Vista-64

2556998

BSOD on Cantiga on reboot while Intel® Matrix Storage Manager is verifying recovery volume after power down & pull master drive

Vista-64

2557020

On running Raidcfg.exe /ST does not reset DOS video color on exit.

Other

2557208

BSOD when enabling Continuous Update in Basic Mode

Vista-64

2662469

Unlock drive function in the UI does not unlock the drive

Windows XP

2662504

R1 volume with a locked member disk shows a status of "Degraded" instead of "LOCKED"

Windows XP

2662513

RaidCfg on ICH10R sku hang on /ST request

DOS 6.22

2556843

Text overlapped on Modify Wizard - Volume Capacity Expansion / Utilize 100% of space in localized languages

Vista

2556847

Cut Text on Modify Wizard - Add one or more member hard drive

Vista

2662594

OROM Does not load when virtual controller enabled on ICH10

None

2662560

OROM allows creation of volumes with locked drives

DOS 6.22

Resolved Issues in Alpha 8.5.0.1013

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

None