Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
    Production Version 8.2.0.1001
    Release Notes


May 23, 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

May 23, 2008

PV 8.2.0.1001

1001

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in PV 8.2.0.1001

Reference No 

Description

Affected OSes

2436506

RAID0 volume is reporting Normal in console app 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 will get message “Wizard unable to start rebuild process” but rebuild happens

Windows XP

2554217

IOMeter* sequential writes on 6-disk R5 slow

Vista, Vista-64, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center, Windows XP-64, Windows 2003-64

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 with SSD on ICH8M

Vista, Vista-64

77332

Failure to enumerate disk causes crash in Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Windows XP

2555515

System lock due to low memory with DVD playing and IO

Windows 2003

2556588

Intel® Rapid Recover Technology: Degraded/Normal/Master Offline goes Normal on failed volume

Vista

2556799

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: 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

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

2556947

Blue screen 0x7B after installing the driver in AHCI mode when there is a drive with metadata in the system

Vista-64

106796

DC Mode - ‘Disable Continuous Updates’ button does not disable continuous updates

Windows XP

2557191

Blue screen or unexpected reboot appears sporadically in AC/DC test for Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume

Windows XP

2662456

Message stating recovery drive synchronization was successful after switching from AC-DC when it did not complete

Windows XP

2662476

Intel Matrix Storage Manager console stops responding during a spare rebuild

Vista

2662487

Modification of Intel Rapid Recover Technology volume fails, but RAID level changes

Windows XP

2662498

0x8086 blue screen when verifying RAID 0 volume with bad block

Vista-64

2662520

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Wizard allows user to select non-OS drive as a master drive when there are only 2 drives

Vista

2662557

Blue screen or fatal error occurs: "Unable to come out of hibernation" when waking up from S4 state

Vista-64

2662638

A combination of leaving system idle followed by S3 cycling leads to 0x9F blue screen sporadically

Vista, Vista-64

2662653

Hot-plugging on external ports with hot-plugging disabled causes infinite enumeration

Vista

2662655

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

Windows XP

 

 

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in PV 8.2.0.1001

Reference No 

Description

Affected OSes

661612

Fix for corner case with ATAPI normal error condition (check condition) where the driver may block a power command from the OS waiting for a request sense or its associated command to complete resulting in a BSOD (0x9f cdrom.sys) 

Windows XP, Vista

2662571

Microsoft Windows* slow boot, or potential 0x7B blue screen, if AHCI mode is enabled but the AHCI OROM is disabled

Windows XP, Vista

2662677

Resume time from S3 is too long

Windows XP, Vista

2687760

Intel Matrix Storage Manager Console autonomously refreshes

Windows XP, Vista