Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 11.0.0.1032 Production Version Release Notes


22 December 2011

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Supported Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows 7*

    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition*

    Microsoft Windows Vista* (not supported on Panther Point platforms)
    Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition* (
not supported on Panther Point platforms)
    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 2008 R2 x64* ++    
   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

22 December 2011

11.0.0.1032 Production Version

1032

15 December 2011

11.0.0.1032 Production Candidate

1032

29 September 2011

11.0.0.1024 Beta

1024

14 July 2011

11.0.0.1015 Alpha

1015

25 May 2011

11.0.0.1009 Alpha

1009

Notes:  

1. Known Issue is defined as a potential RST issue that has been replicated internally by the Rapid Storage Technology team but has not been root caused to be an RST defect.

2. Microsoft Windows Vista* (32 & 64-bit) is not supported on Panther Point based platforms.

3. The RAID OROM version for this release is 11.0.0.1339, the driver and user interface version is 11.0.0.1032. 

Note: An Intel core branded CPU is required to enable the Smart Response Technology feature beginning with this 11.0.0.1339 OROM release.

4. This release supports the co-existence of the Intel® Smart Response Technology caching solution and the Intel® Rapid Start Technology solution on a single SSD. 

Note: An RST 11.0 OROM is required to support this configuration

5. This release introduces a new enhancement referred to as HDD Power-Up in Standby (PUIS) supporting version 2 of Intel® Smart Connect Technology.  Refer to the OEM Technical Guide within this kit for details pertaining to this feature.

6. This release includes both the RAIDCFG32 & RAIDCFG64 utilities which are contained in the RAIDcmd utility component of this kit. 

7. When an ODD is in the Zero Power state, some ODDs may disappear when a hardware re-scan is initiated via the Windows Device Manager.  A second hardware re-scan conducted before the Zero Power Idle Timeout value is reached (default is 60s) will return the drive to an OS visible state. This behavior is believed to be related to the length of time an ODD requires to become ready during power on from the zero-power state.

8. Microsoft* .NET Framework 3.0 is required to be installed on the system in order for the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology User Interface to install.  Note that not all Microsoft* Operating Systems have .NET 3.0 installed by default.  Refer to the Microsoft* website for details.

9. A Vista OS Installation using a Matrix RAID Array on a system with a 9.5 or newer OROM requires the user to F6 a 9.5 or newer driver.

10. Possible issue where RST is slow to start on Windows XP or Vista with .NET 3.0

Issue description: Under certain network conditions, on systems with .NET 3.0, the RST application and notification icon (a.k.a. tray icon) may take about a minute to start.  

Resolution: Contact Microsoft* to receive the hot fix described by KB article 936707 or upgrade to .NET 3.5.

11. 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.

 

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in 11.0.0.1032 PV

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3236345

S3 or S4 cycling may be cause an error of RAID1 volume

Win7-64

3236354

Operating system crashes when scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors w/ RAID0 volume

Win7-64

3236510

Attempting to Accelerate a hot-inserted HDD induces an Unknown error and causes the Accelerate button to disappear in the user interface

Win7-64

3236599

Acceleration status is always ‘No Sync’ in the OROM after changing Smart Response Technology mode via the user interface

Win7,Win7-64

3236764

RAID ‘Create’ button is available in user interface on system with Cache enabled when it is should not be shown

Win7,Win7-64

3236782

Revert changes to support Acceleration after hot-unplug and re-insert of SSD

Win7-64

3236874

Unable to modify cache volumes when maximum volume count is reached and volumes cannot be accelerated

Win7-64

3236401

Driver prevents SSD from being used as cache after hot-plugged and hot-inserted

Win7-64

3235188

RAIDCFG32 displays incorrect results

WinXP

3236285

User Interface mouse-over in Acceleration mode shows conflicting data for an Accelerated disk

Win7-64

3236092

From the 'Configure Volume' page on the 'Create' tab, the 'Specify the volume size:' and 'Advanced' sections are un-selectable by standard keyboard methods.

Win7-64

3236278

Obscured text string in the "Enable Acceleration" window under the "Select the disk or volume to accelerate:" selection box

Windows Sever2008

3236296

OROM does not wait long enough for device to become ready per ATAPI 7 and ATAPI 8 specification

N/A

3236038

RST Caching fails to resume from S4 after entering OROM>Acceleration Options and sometimes causes BSOD 0050 & 0051

N/A

3236140

RST user interface exposes option to create additional matrix RAID volume when the maximum possible number of RAID volumes has been reached

Win7-64

3236222

An unknown error is induced if user attempts to change the type of a second R1 volume while a create volume from disk R1 migration is occurring

Win7-64

3235067

Intel® Smart Response Technology is not honoring user's power plan

Win7-64

3235998

When trying to enable acceleration, the disk selection screen displays full disk capacity, max 64 GB for the cache which is not true at all times

Win7, Win7-64

3236125

Accelerated pass-through data disk: Error message displayed in user interface when trying to use a different SSD to Accelerate the disk after auto-transition Enhanced mode to OFF due to missing Cache SSD

Win7, Win7-64

3236126

Email Notify Setup step 2 in help is obsolete

Vista-64, Win7-64, Server2008-64

3235412

"Disk data cache" resets to "enable" after resuming from S4/S5 in user interface

N/A

3235924

RCfgSata utility Successfully Accelerates an Invalid Smart Response Technology Volume with 2 SSDs in Max mode.

N/A

3235475

System does not reconstruct data after a S3 is performed from windows which may lead to possible OS corruption

Win7, Win7-64

3236120

“Enable Acceleration” is available to user after cache hot-plugged and hot-inserted without a system reboot.

Win7-64

Resolved Issues in 11.0.0.1024 Beta

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3235441

WinDVD 10 playback of CPRM protected content will be denied after installing the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver

Win7-64

3235696

OS crashes when running "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" on a RAID volume

Win7, Win7-64

3235317

Degrading an Accelerated (Max mode) RAID5 Volume with 16 KB Strip Size sporadically causes catastrophic Data Loss upon Reboot

N/A

3235387

SUT halts at the 1st cycle while running specific utility in DOS with a RAID5 volume

N/A

3235580

SUT cannot boot to degraded bootable RAID5 volume after one HDD is removed from the RAID5 volume

N/A

3235494

Legacy OROM does not handle Segment Wrapping of Data Buffers for int13 I/O. Always returns NOT_SUPPORTED

N/A

3235456

RcfgSata.exe does not allow enabling acceleration if RAID0 is disabled via BCFS

N/A

3235061

RCfgSata.txt in RST 11.0 - missing parameter documentation

N/A

3006447

Changing contrast settings eliminates user interface info

WinXP-64

3235422

Unbundling of the OS sporadically results in 0x7E BSOD with Smart Response Technology enabled

Win7-64

3235548

Disable Acceleration twice on an Accelerated single disk RAID0 OS volume during a data migration then Enable again induces 0x7A BSOD

Win7-64

3007204

Naming Volume "Array_0000" makes it completely disappear in the user interface

Win7

3234687

Online Help: Volume Requirements table is missing Cougar Point in the "Controller Support" column

WinXP-64

3234887

System report heading does not match in saved text file

Win7-64, WinXP

3235067

Smart Response Technology not honoring user's power plan

Win7-64

3235253

Device detection failure after resuming from S3

Win7-64

3235380

Volume can't be renamed when other volume in the Matrix RAID is in verification/rebuild/initialization state

Win7, Win7-64

3235553

Unknown controller displayed in the user interface

Win7-64

3235558

Disassociating help icon hover text string incorrect

Win7

3235572

Optical Disk Drives reported as Type: Hard disk, in the System Report of the user interface

Win7

3235622

Readme needs update - Remove obsolete Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller

Vista, WinXP, Win7

3235149

Reset disk to normal button is not shown in user interface

Vista, Vista-64

3235279

Accelerated pass-through data disk: Error message pop-up in user interface when trying to use a different SSD to Accelerate the disk after auto-transition Enhanced mode to OFF due to missing Cache SSD

Win7, Win7-64

3235305

Wrong device name on Chief River

Vista

3235378

BSOD during Bad Block tests on XP 32 Rose City system

WinXP

3235129

0x7E BSOD may occur during RAID operations if volume name is 16 characters

Win7, Win7-64, Windows Server 2008-64

3235277

Accelerated RAID Volume: Clicking 'Disassociate' link pops-up Error message in user interface after Acceleration auto-transition from Enhanced to Off due to SSD being removed

Win7, Win7-64

 

Resolved Issues in 11.0.0.1015 Alpha

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3007123

Clear and Reset disk to normal in user interface may not work

Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64,Windows 2008,Windows 2008-64

3234888

When 2 RAID Volumes are present on a system and left idle for a long time will cause IO fail

N/A

3235087

0x7E BSOD sporadically seen when RAID member disk is hot removed during migration

Win7-64

 

 

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in 11.0.0.1032 PV

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3237050

Smart Response Technology thrashes cache contents running a particular test

Win7

3236290

Resumption from hibernation on a migrating ‘Create Volume From Disk’ RAID1 volume sporadically induces BSOD 0x9086 if a non-OS RAID volume is deleted before the resumption occurs

Win7-64

3236411

Booting to an accelerated, degraded RAID1 volume that is re-inserted fails and sporadically induces BSOD 0x7B

Win7-64

3236282

Error pop-up message when opening RST Tray Icon after boot, service not running yet

Win7-64

3236121

Enlarging the user interface window by double clicking the top bar causes the user screen to change

Win7-64, WindowsXP-64

3236528

Driver does not detect the Smart Response Technology Acceleration SSD when hot inserted

Win7-64

3236445

Enabling acceleration of a RAID Volume does not disable the volume's write back cache

Win7-64

3236551

Accelerate button shows up in the user interface after booting with no SSD attached and then hot plugging it during OS runtime

Win7-64

3235487

System under test shows unknown icon in the taskbar during the installation of RST

Win7,Win7-64

3235655

After using Sysprep, the system is no longer able to boot when Smart Response Technology is enabled

Win7-64

3235719

Significant read performance degradation seen on 2-drive RAID1 to a 2-drive RAID0 migration due to Coalescer being disabled and not re-enabled

Win7-64

3235083

0x50 BSOD sporadically seen after disconnecting cache volume from system

Win7-64

3005451

Accessibility issue - Incorrect font size in high contrast settings for Help

Vista,Win7,Windows XP

3006373

Tray icon disappears prematurely

Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64,Windows 2003,Windows 2003-64,Windows 2008,Windows 2008-64,Windows Media Center, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

3006972

Reset cache SSD to passthru appears to work, but doesn't when writes are failed to SSD

Win7-64

3007006

RAID migration does not fail after drive sends Status Err 0x40

Windows 2008

3007203

OS SMART Enable command to RAID volume not being sent to member disks

Win7

3006031

Error Injection causes non-NCQ data verification failure

Win7

3007165

0x9F BSOD sporadically seen when running reboot/suspend stress test on ICH10 platforms

Win7

3235279

Accelerated pass-through data disk: Error message pop-up in user interface when trying to use a different SSD to Accelerate the disk after auto-transition Enhanced mode to OFF due to missing Cache SSD

Win7,Win7-64

3235185

Activate Port x LED, doesn't work if SATA disk drives ports are not in sequential order.

Win7

3235555

Acceleration is getting disabled while changing a specific SSD from one port to another port in S3

Win7-64

3235466

Maximized Accelerated disk/volume is not enumerated as Accelerated by the RST driver after the OS doesn't shutdown cleanly

Win7-64

3234671

Smart Response Technology data mis-compare after 235 dirty shutdowns

Vista-64

3235978

User interface warning message not sufficient when disabling acceleration and then re-enabling

Win7-64

3235807

Failed caching SSD does not fail accelerated volume; volume stays in maximized mode

3235310

Trying to unlock a drive that is part of an accelerated volume causes the user interface/OS to freeze

Win7

3235980

User interface requires two attempts to complete Acceleration action after Cache SSD removed and replaced in Enhanced mode. Error message pops up when trying to Accelerate with different SSD.

Win7-64