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This download supports Intel(R) RAID controllers using software stack 2 (SROMBU42E, SRCU42X, SRCU42E, SRCU41L, SRCS16, SRCS28X, & SRCZCRX), please verify that this driver has been tested with the RAID card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at http://support.intel.com. =================== Package Information =================== Driver Version = 6.45.3.64 OS supported = Windows* Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows* XP professional x64 Edition ==================== Attention! ==================== This package contains the signed Microsoft Windows* Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows* XP professional x64 Edition (6.45.3.64) driver. ================== Known Restrictions ================== This utility is not compatible with the SRCU21, SRCU31, SRCU31L, SRCMR, SRCZCR, SRCU32, SRCU42L, or SRCS14L RAID controllers. ==================== Contents on the package ==================== The following files are included in this package: Name Description MRAID64.cat Signature file MRAID35x.pdb Driver symbol file MRAID35x.SYS Driver file NODEV.INF Install support OEMSETUP.INF Install support TXTSETUP.OEM Install support Web License.rtf License file Win2K3-x64_WinXP-x64_signed_DRV_readme.txt This file ========================= Installation Instructions ========================= These instructions describe installation on a system with a floppy drive, instructions for floppyless installation are available on the web site for the raid controller at \\support.intel.com This procedure installs the Intel RAID device driver on a new Windows* 2003 EM64T system. Windows 2003 automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to the appropriate directory. 1. Start the Windows installation by booting from the Windows CD-ROM. The system BIOS must support booting from a CD-ROM. BIOS settings might require changes to allow CD-ROM booting. See your system documentation. 2. Press when the screen displays: 'Press F6 if you need...' Note: You must press for the system to recognize the new driver. 3. Choose to specify an additional device when the screen displays: 'Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices...' Note: If this screen is not displayed as the first user input, then pressing was not seen by the setup program. Reboot the system, and return to step 2. 4. The system prompts for the manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk. Insert the driver diskette containing the Windows 2003 EM64T device driver, and press . 5. Select the Windows device driver from the menu by highlighting it and press . 6. Press again to proceed. 7. Return to the Windows Setup screen. 8. Windows displays a 'Welcome to Setup' window. 9. Press to proceed. 10. Follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure. Existing Windows System Driver Installation: This procedure installs or updates the Intel RAID device driver on an existing Windows 2003 EM64T system. 1. Boot Windows. The Found New Hardware Wizard begins. 2. Click the Next button. 3. Insert the driver diskette into the A:\ drive. 4. Click the Search for a Suitable Driver... button and click Next. 5. Click the Next button. 6. Check the Specify Location box, uncheck all other boxes, and click the Next button. 7. Type A:\ and click the OK button. 8. Click the Next button on the Driver Files Search Results window. 9. Click the Finish button to complete the driver installation. 10. Repeat this process for all the channels on your controller. Fixes/Updates ============== 1) During heavy I/O in a cluster environment, the driver could occasionally stall the cpu for over 3 minutes in a tight loop when it received the reset command from the OS. Due to this, the system would freeze and cluster failover would not happen. As a fix, a timer routine was added which will periodically calculate the actual system time elapsed from the start of the issuing of reset and if it is more than 3 min it will fail the adapter, allowing the failover to contunue. 2) If a logical drive is failed, the driver would occasionally not expose it to the OS which results in a mismatch in the logical drive mapping between OS and RAID Management utilities. This driver will expose the failed logical drive to the OS but complete the failed IO request to with proper status information. This will fix the mismatch issue. 3) Addition of "Intel(R) SRCU42E SCSI Processor Device" to the nodev.inf file. 4) Added support for SRCS28X Controller, port multipliers are used to support 256 devices. In order to expose 256 devices, F/w returns 16 physical channels to the OS. Driver has been modifed to support mapping of these 16 physical channels so that it can expose all the 256 devices to the OS. 5) Support for PNP ID for Intel(r) SRCU41L Controller added. 6) Support for new PNP IDs for Intel controller added. *Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.