Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 9.6.4.1002 Production Version
Release Notes
21 June 2010
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Supported Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows 7*
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition*
Microsoft Windows Vista*
Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition*
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition*
Microsoft Windows XP Professional*
Microsoft Windows XP x64 EditionMicrosoft 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
21 June 2010
9.6.4.1002 Production Version
1002
08 March 2010
9.6.0.1014 Production Version
1014
17 March 2010
9.6.0.1014 Production Candidate
1014
Notes:
1. For the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 9.6 RAID Option ROM and Utilities refer to Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 9.6.0.1014 PV release; kit #23636.
2. Microsoft* .NET Framework 3.0 or newer 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 or newer installed by default. Refer to the Microsoft* website for details.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
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Resolved Issues in 9.6.4.1002 Production Version |
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Reference No |
Description |
Affected OS's |
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3005913 |
Power cycle S3(Sleep) causes BSOD 0x9086 |
Windows
XP-64, Win7-64 |
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3005889 |
Can't Boot Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 with Intel RAID
and Hyper-threading enabled on Nehalem Ex system |
Windows
2008-64 |
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3005811 |
Noise
occurs when HDD Sleep command (0xE0) is issued while playing a music file |
Win7 |
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3005819 |
CSMI
commands are being cached |
Windows
XP, Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64 |
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3005749 |
Using
CSMI to monitor RAID disk with SMART event returns CSMI_SAS_DRIVE_STATUS_OK
instead of _DEGRADED |
Windows
XP |
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3005587 |
OS
hangs with 0x7A BSOD during S4 cycling test |
Vista,
Win7, Win7-64 |
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3005610 |
SGPIO: Activate LED not working properly after a
RAID 10 rebuild. |
Windows
2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008-64 |
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3005621 |
The USB transfer rate downgrades when querying for
a SMART event on a drive |
Win7,
Win7-64 |
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Resolved Issues in 9.6.0.1014 Production Version |
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Reference No |
Description |
Affected OS's |
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3005593 |
0xC7 BSOD during extended S4 cycling |
Vista-64,
Win7, Win7-64 |
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3005627 |
Dual RAID array configurations with IRST causes
slow system responsiveness or system lock |
Win7-64 |
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3005606 |
OROM member disks of Rebuilding Recovery Volume
are Incompatible (when RRT only enabled via BCFS) |
Windows
XP, Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64 |
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3004638 |
Degraded performance for RAID 1 w/ Intel RST 9.5
PV build |
Vista,
Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64 |
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3005408 |
9086 BSOD after hot plug of smart disk in raid 1
with spare |
Win7,
Win7-64, Windows XP-64 |
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3005586 |
Drive selection in BOOT>Hard Drive BBS
Priorities only allows Legacy SCSI Card when all ports populated. |
Win7-64,
Windows XP-64 |
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3005608 |
Disk data cache disabled by default when part of a
volume created through Intel® Rapid Storage Technology User Interface |
Vista,
Win7 |
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3004808 |
[P55]In boot page of BIOS setup utility, Hitachi
HDD will lost letters under RAID mode |
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3004820 |
Intel® RST User Interface allows spare HDD to be master
HDD under IRRT mode |
Vista |
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3004995 |
Access violation seen when running WHQL Common
Stress Scenario w/IO test |
Win7 |
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3005222 |
0xC9 BSOD encountered after hot plugging disk
that was part of a RAID 5 volume before hot unplugging |
Win7,
Win7-64 |
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3005252 |
Intel® RST User Interface displays incorrect
error message when booted in Windows Safe Mode |
Win7,
Win7-64 |
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3005290 |
Intel® RST User Interface displays in English
when language setting is set to localized in Windows XP 64 bit |
Windows
XP-64 |
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3005347 |
WHQL: 0x70860002 BSOD on legacy platform RAID
configurations |
Vista,
Vista-64, Windows 2003, Windows 2003-64, Windows 2008, Windows 2008-64,
Windows XP, Windows XP-64 |
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3005350 |
Intel® RST driver fails to install with F6 using certain
HDDs |
Win7 |
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3005358 |
0xD1 and 0x7E BSOD when hot unplugging certain
eSATA devices |
Vista-64,
Win7 |
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3005363 |
0xCC BSOD encountered during DTM Common Scenario
Stress Test |
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3005377 |
Drives disappear from the Intel® RST User
Interface when a RAID volume is deleted. |
Win7-64 |
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3005379 |
WHQL: AHCI mode STORAGE_ADAPTER_DESCRIPTOR
returns BusTypeATA (WLK1.5 BLOCKING) |
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3005389 |
Intel® RST User Interface displays incorrect UI
for Chinese Hong Kong |
Vista |
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3005394 |
Interrupting a recovery disk update process via
Intel® RST will cause the master and recovery to show as
"incompatible" in the OROM |
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3005402 |
Error occurs on particular SSDs during rebuilding
or migrating RAID 1 |
Windows XP, Vista |
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3005412 |
0xA BSOD encountered during IO using PassMark |
Vista, Win7 |
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3005426 |
It takes a long time to boot into Windows XP when
installed on a RAID 0 using 2*SSD |
Windows XP |
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3005294 |
eSATA HDD is not detected after the second hot
attach |
Vista, Vista-64, Win7 |
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3005360 |
0xD1 BSOD seen during extended S4/S3 power
cycling |
Vista, Vista-64, Win7,
Win7-64 |
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3005469 |
Readme.txt in Program Files\Intel\IRST does not append
appropriate License Agreement text in |
Vista |
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Known Issues
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Known Issues in 9.6.0.1014 Production Version |
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Reference No |
Description |
Affected OS's |
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2688478 |
Bogus un-initialization status after migrating
RAID1 to RAID0 |
Vista, Windows XP |
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2688481 |
Errors seen after volume data verification on
expanded RAID volumes |
Windows XP, Vista |
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2723901 |
SGPIO defaults not functioning correctly |
Windows 2008 |
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2724026 |
Event ID 9 "iaStor" error in the system
log |
Windows XP, Vista |
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2724212 |
"File not found" errors for Language
Resource Version strings in Event Viewer |
Vista, Windows XP |
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3005141 |
Cannot rebuild to a new hard drive on RAID 5 |
Windows XP |
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3005428 |
Memory.dmp file is not being written with 9.5
based Intel® RST driver when Verifier is running |
Windows 2003 |
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3005585 |
OS sporadically hangs with 0x7F BSOD during S4
cycling test |
Win7,Win7-64 |
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3005587 |
OS sporadically hangs with 0x7A BSOD during S4
cycling test |
Vista,Win7,Win7-64 |
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2221871 |
Intel® RST driver returns different data for
reads to the same sector of an uninitialized, mirrored RAID volume |
Vista,Vista-64,Win7-64,Windows 2003,Windows 2003-64,Windows
XP, Windows XP-64 |
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2554217 |
IOMeter sequential writes on 6-disk R5 slow with WBC disabled |
Vista,Vista-64,Win2000,Win7,Win7-64,Windows
2003,Windows 2003-64,Windows Media Center, Windows XP, Windows XP-64 |
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2556766 |
Modification of one volume fails during migration
of a different volume |
Vista,Vista-64,Windows 2003,Windows XP, Windows
XP-64 |
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2688213 |
Driver returns truncated device firmware version
for IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY |
Vista |
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2688463 |
HDDPWD-After Entering BIOS Password for Locked
Disk During Resume from S4 Disk/Volume is still Locked |
Windows XP-64 |
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2688466 |
HDDPWD-After Disconnecting Locked Disk From
Redundant RAID Volume the Volume is Shown as Degraded But is Not Exported to
OS |
Windows XP-64 |
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2688483 |
Driver proceeds with volume creation if disk is
missing |
Windows XP |
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2688691 |
Metadata is stored on target HDD when the UI
blocks creation of IRRT volume |
Vista |
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2723742 |
Driver doesn't properly disable LPM when device
that doesn't support LPM is connected |
Other, Windows 2008 |
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2723749 |
Hot-plug eSATA/ODD results in OS and external
ports to disappear from UI in AHCI mode |
Vista, Windows XP |
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2723771 |
After deletion of RAID 1 the second disk appears
as offline |
Win7 |
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2723869 |
>2TB single disk passthru
support does not work properly |
Vista-64 |
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2724036 |
Failure to Sync Following Togglemount
Command |
Win7-64 |
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2724057 |
Creation of a RAID 1 volume from OS drive hangs
then fails the source drive |
Vista,Win7 |
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2724082 |
HDDPWD-After S3/S4 a previously unlocked volume
is shown as locked but is exported to OS |
Win7-64 |
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2724223 |
Register definition doesn't match AHCI spec |
Vista |
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3004454 |
The Serial Number information of CD/DVD Drives is
being reported incorrectly from the physical sticker |
Vista,Vista-64 |
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3004567 |
Driver sending ATA commands to devices which
don’t support the commands |
Vista |
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3004736 |
No "busy" feedback provided to end-user
in UI during synchronous calls to service |
Windows XP-64 |
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3004737 |
Modal dialogs violating Windows* UI guidelines
(not emulating modal dialog behavior) |
Windows XP-64 |
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3004738 |
Lack of button pressed state (for compliancy with
Windows* standards) |
Windows XP-64 |
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3004750 |
Event Viewer - Service started successfully txt
is not localized on localized XP |
Windows XP |
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3004763 |
Windows Error Recovery screen on reboot – NoVE |
Win7 |
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3004911 |
Intel® RST driver automatically starts Rebuild
from Continuous Degraded Normal IRRT State when Master Disk attached |
Win7 |
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3004916 |
Intel® RST driver incorrectly sets master disk as
Smart error after rebuild if recovery disk has smart error |
Win7 |
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3004944 |
Manage Volume status does not update from Add
Disk if more help is launched from Add Disk dialog |
Windows XP |
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3004972 |
3-drive RAID 0 Volume status is “Unknown” during
Automatic rebuild to spare drive after SMART event |
Win7-64 |
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3005121 |
Volume status "unknown" after
recovering data from a degraded IRRT |
Windows XP-64 |
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3005199 |
Report.txt need to have both English and
localized text when installed on Localized OS. |
Vista |
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3005247 |
No details under 'manage' when drive is warned |
Vista-64 |
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3005263 |
Change RAID0 type to RAID5 type fails in UI |
Win7 |
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3005390 |
Hot unplug/plug true ESATA while System disk is
migrating into RAID 1 causes UI migration data % to = 0 |
Win7 |
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3005391 |
During RAID 0 migration, hot plug/unplug of
pass-thru disk causes RAID "Type" under UI to change to RAID 1 |
Win7,Win7-64 |
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3005407 |
RAID 1 smart event does not rebuild to spare but
tray icon reports migration |
Win7,Win7-64,Windows XP-64 |
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3005410 |
System hangs during Toggle mount on a IRRT Volume |
Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP |
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3005411 |
IMSM 8.9 32-bit shell.exe allows user to setup
RAID (1+0)x6 arrays |
Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64 |
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3005419 |
'Intel® RST service cannot be started in safe
mode' dialog is not RTL-enabled (ARA + HEB only) |
Vista |
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3005435 |
UI displays incorrect colors for High Contrast
themes offered by OS |
Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64 |
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3005453 |
Lack of button pressed state (for compliancy with
Windows* standards) |
Windows XP-64 |
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3005455 |
Help file Index is not alphabetizing correctly in
CHS, CHT |
Vista,Vista-64 |
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3005464 |
Driver sending ATA commands to devices which
don’t support the commands |
Vista |
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3005468 |
Sporadic system lock on eSATA hot-unplug and
hot-plug |
Win7 |
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3005477 |
Event Viewer - Service started successfully txt
is not localized on localized XP |
Windows XP |
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3005487 |
IRST Driver automatically starts Rebuild from
Continuous Degraded Normal IRRT State when Master Disk attached |
Win7 |
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3005490 |
IRST Driver incorrectly sets master disk as Smart
error after rebuild if recovery disk has smart error |
Win7 |
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3005492 |
Manage Volume status does not update from Add
Disk if more help is launched from Add Disk dialog |
Windows XP |
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3005553 |
RAID 1 smart event does not rebuild to spare but
tray icon reports migration |
Win7,Win7-64,Windows XP-64 |
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3005568 |
OROM User Interface showing empty drive (no model
number, serial number) |
Vista |
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3005573 |
Tools tip go back and forward between Localized
and English in Windows XP |
Windows XP |
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3005599 |
Scroll bars displaying incorrect behavior under
‘Create’ tab |
Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64 |
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3005617 |
Deleting a RAID 10 while migrating leaves raw
partitions on multiple drives |
Win7 |
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3005618 |
Extra character after "Intel" in the
System Manufacturer section |
Windows 2008 |
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3005620 |
Clicking on system report page causes it to scroll
to the bottom |
Windows 2008 |
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3005628 |
0xD5 BSOD sporadically observed during extended
S4 cycles |
Win7-64 |
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3005630 |
The Readme file has the wrong description of the
-NOSERVICE and the -NOIRSTGUI command line switches |
Vista |
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3005652 |
Help - Content is missing for SATA transfer mode
6 Gb/s (Gen 3) |
Vista,Win7,Windows XP |
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3005664 |
Localized OS shows Help top menu items in ENU on
History/Backlog list |
Win7 |
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3005666 |
:0 or colon + zero is appended to serial number of
drive in recovery volume |
Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP |
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2723625 |
JPN, KOR, CHS, CHT characters are displayed as if they are
Bolded throughout UI & Help in XP |
Windows XP |
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3005503 |
ARA/HEB_error dialogs on Online
Support in Help not RtL enabled |
Vista, Win7, Windows XP |
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2723856 |
ARA/HEB Help page Arrow icon is not following the correct layout |
Vista |
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2723619 |
Help file Index is not alphabetizing correctly in CHS, CHT |
Vista, Vista-64 |
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