Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
    8.8.0.1009 Production Version
    Release Notes


27 February 2009

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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

27 February 2009

8.8.0.1009 Production Version

1009

 

Resolved Issues

Issues Resolved in 8.8.0.1009 Production Version

Reference No 

Description

Affected OSes

2688603

Failure to create recovery or RAID 1 volume when source drive’s serial number is greater than 15 characters

 

2687900

Intel® Turbo Memory incompatible with IOCTL_ATA_PASSTHROUGH

XP, Vista

2688032

Extra Space in Option ROM UI String

NA

2688155

Plug/unplug of eSATA device during DVD playback causes momentary playback hang

XP, Vista

2688361

0x7B blue screen when a recovery volume contains a mix of locked and unlocked states in Manual Sync mode

NA

2688409

Fatal errors while running CRC injection testing

XP, Sever 2003, Vista, Server 2008

2688461

OROM Incorrectly shows a Volume Size of 0.0GB

NA

2688464

Driver does not unload properly which can result in a blue screen or system hang in specific systems (typically those booting from external controller)

XP, Vista

2688480

SATA ODD is not detected after the 2nd hot plug-in after using Safely Remove option

XP, Vista

2688551

eSATA device redetected after using "Safely Remove Hardware" in System Tray

XP, Vista

2688558

During sustained CD or DVD playback, the ODD may disappear from the system

XP, Vista

2688614

System may hang for ~30 seconds upon S3/S4 resume with specific solid state drives

XP, Vista

2688727

Disk may fail due to parity error

XP, Sever 2003, Vista, Server 2008

2723582

Failure to create recovery volume in Advanced View when the hidden partition exists at the front of a disk

XP, Vista

2688322

Sound effect is not played back smoothly when undocking the system from the docking station

XP, Vista

2688301

SD Card insertion cannot be detected after resuming the system from S3/S4 mode

XP, Vista

2723702

A SATA device inserted into an hot plug capable port during S3/S4 is not detected upon resume

Vista, XP

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in 8.8.0.1009 Production Version

Reference No 

Description

Affected OSes

N/A

System hangs and error message that says: ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA may be observed when writing large numbers of files on Windows XP with Service Pack 2

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

 

2723864

RAID volume may become unavailable when trying to read a bad block

Vista, XP

2688529

Window* operating system does not boot with PC Card

Vista, XP

2688481

Errors seen after volume data verification on expanded RAID volumes

Vista, XP

2688478

Incorrect un-initialization status after migrating RAID1 to RAID0

Vista, XP

2688477

Fail to modify Recovery Volume via "Volume Modify"

Vista, XP

2688400

No illustration & detail appear in Basic View while RAID1 is Rebuilding

Vista, XP

2688383

Port Number and Number of Disks shows incorrect in Basic Mode View

Vista, XP

2688382

No information of RAID0 "Failed" appear in Basic View

Vista, XP

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

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

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

Degraded/Normal/Master Offline goes Normal on failed volume

Vista

2556593

Degraded/Syncing state, recovery disk failure/remove does not match state table

Vista

2556715

Sync does not re-start with invalid partner in manual sync mode

Vista-64

2556718

Basic Mode - Extra port number shown on the right side of the Volume Picture

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP

2556799

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

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

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

Vista

2662461

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

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

Windows XP-64

2662524

0xD5 blue screen with Driver Verifier While Hot Plugging from one drive to another on same port

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

0x7B blue screen 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

2662561

Stall I/O to a disk connected with bad SATA cable and does not restart

Vista

2662601

SATA port disappears in UI when hot swap of CD drive with hard drive.

Vista-64

2662520

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

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

Vista

2687790

Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) is not working for SATA ODDs

Vista

2662633

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

Vista-64

2687769

ARA-HEB-ELL-RUS: 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

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

Vista

2687830

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

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

2687894

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

Windows XP

2687971

CHT: Incorrect Translations on Error message when migrating a volume with encrypted hard drive

Vista

2687995

When a missed locked member disk of a degraded RAID 1 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 UI or "Error Occurred" status in 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 blue screen happens upon deleting the volume after hang when the console app is open

Vista

2688060

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

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->Advanced 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 Console

Vista

2687937

ODD icon does not update when unplugging the ODD

Windows XP

2688155

Hot plug/unplug of eSATA device during DVD playback causes the movie to hang up for a moment

Vista

2688481

Errors seen after volume data verification on expanded RAID volumes

Windows XP, Vista

2688467

Playing DVD with some SATA ODD’s causes the DVD to freeze intermittently

Windows XP, Vista

2688400

No illustration & detail appear in Basic View while RAID1 is Rebuilding

Vista