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

 

 Known Issues

Known Issues in Production Version 8.5.0.1032

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

N/A   

System hangs and ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA error messages may be observed when writing large numbers of files on Windows XP with SP2

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

Windows 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

2436506   

RAID0 volume is reporting Normal in User Interface 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, user will get message “Wizard unable to start rebuild process” but rebuild happens

Windows XP

2330162 

User Interface 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 shut down 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/ solid state drive on Intel® 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

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

Extra port number shown on the right side of the volume picture in Basic mode

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

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

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

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 blue screen 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 blue screen while running S4 in RAID1 configuration with Robson

Vista

2688056

Hot plugging by removing the power results in loss of power savings

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

2688062

iastor.sys 7E blue screen while attempting to enter sleep state and perform IO, with Intel® Turbo Memory 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

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 Version 8.5.0.1032

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2688178

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

Vista,Vista-64

2687944

Intermittent blue screen 9F happens when system goes into S3 while S3, S4, reboot, shutdown cycling test.

Vista

2662499

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

Vista

2687892

English Readme has license information appended twice & Copyright year needs to be updated

Vista

2662672

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

Vista,Vista-64

2662686

D1 blue screen 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 happen when user watch DVD in AHCI aware mode

Vista

2687805

S4 resume time is too slow in AHCI aware mode

Vista

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

2687973

System hangs when plugging in an hard drive 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 blue screen 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)

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 ( blue screen: 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

2688095

System with SGPIO causes intermittent blue screen during s3/s4 cycles

Vista-64

2662655

0x8086 blue screen occurs sporadically after hot plugging while doing IO on the hot plugged drive

Windows XP

2687802

OROM incorrectly tries to recover to a failed disk that made the volume originally go degraded

NA

2557191

Blue scren 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 blue screen 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

2662639

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

Vista, Windows XP

2662653

Hot plug of a device on external ports with hot plug disabled in BIOS causes infinite enumeration

Vista

2662737

OROM hangs if a 5-disk RAID 5 volume is attached to a system that doesn't support RAID 5

N/A

2556723

Recovery volume status goes failed instead of degraded when recovery volume is unplugged

Windows XP

2662631

A degraded R5 cannot be rebuilt within Intel Matrix Storage Console

Vista

2662585

Burning data to recordable CD/DVD fails to complete

Vista-64.

2556841

Cut text in drop down menu of recovery volume creation wizard

Vista

2556733

Blue screen when requesting sync on recovery volume on Intel® ICH9R

Vista-64

2551867   

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

Vista, Vista-64

2518659   

Blue screen observed when installing “Diskeeper 2007”

Vista

2550620   

Hot plug of a member disk of a RAID 5 volume does not begin rebuilding to spare

Vista

2519037   

System sporadically locks up while rebuilding R1 volume and recording web-cam video

Vista

2553259   

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 hard drive never gets spin down request while system is idle

Vista

2556541

Failed partner begins to sync in manual sync without user interaction

Vista-64

2556998

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

Vista-64

2557208

Blue screen when enabling Continuous Update in Basic Mode

Vista-64

2662469

Unlock drive function in the UI does not unlock the drive

Windows XP

2556847

Cut text on Modify Wizard - Add one or more member hard drives

Vista