> 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 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
> > > 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

Resolved Issues in 9.6.4.1002 Production Version
Reference No | Description | Affected OS's
3005913 | Power cycle S3(Sleep) causes BSOD 0x9086 | Windows XP-64, Win7-64
3005889 | Can't Boot Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 with Intel RAID and Hyper-threading enabled on Nehalem Ex system | Windows 2008-64
3005811 | Noise occurs when HDD Sleep command (0xE0) is issued while playing a music file | Win7
3005819 | CSMI commands are being cached | Windows XP, Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64
3005749 | Using CSMI to monitor RAID disk with SMART event returns CSMI_SAS_DRIVE_STATUS_OK instead of _DEGRADED | Windows XP
3005587 | OS hangs with 0x7A BSOD during S4 cycling test | Vista, Win7, Win7-64
3005610 | SGPIO: Activate LED not working properly after a RAID 10 rebuild. | Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008-64
3005621 | The USB transfer rate downgrades when querying for a SMART event on a drive | Win7, Win7-64
Resolved Issues in 9.6.0.1014 Production Version
Reference No | Description | Affected OS's
3005593 | 0xC7 BSOD during extended S4 cycling | Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64
3005627 | Dual RAID array configurations with IRST causes slow system responsiveness or system lock | Win7-64
3005606 | OROM member disks of Rebuilding Recovery Volume are Incompatible (when RRT only enabled via BCFS) | Windows XP, Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64
3004638 | Degraded performance for RAID 1 w/ Intel RST 9.5 PV build | Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64
3005408 | 9086 BSOD after hot plug of smart disk in raid 1 with spare | Win7, Win7-64, Windows XP-64
3005586 | Drive selection in BOOT>Hard Drive BBS Priorities only allows Legacy SCSI Card when all ports populated. | Win7-64, Windows XP-64
3005608 | Disk data cache disabled by default when part of a volume created through Intel® Rapid Storage Technology User Interface | Vista, Win7
3004808 | [P55]In boot page of BIOS setup utility, Hitachi HDD will lost letters under RAID mode |
3004820 | Intel® RST User Interface allows spare HDD to be master HDD under IRRT mode | Vista
3004995 | Access violation seen when running WHQL Common Stress Scenario w/IO test | Win7
3005222 | 0xC9 BSOD encountered after hot plugging disk that was part of a RAID 5 volume before hot unplugging | Win7, Win7-64
3005252 | Intel® RST User Interface displays incorrect error message when booted in Windows Safe Mode | Win7, Win7-64
3005290 | Intel® RST User Interface displays in English when language setting is set to localized in Windows XP 64 bit | Windows XP-64
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
3005350 | Intel® RST driver fails to install with F6 using certain HDDs | Win7
3005358 | 0xD1 and 0x7E BSOD when hot unplugging certain eSATA devices | Vista-64, Win7
3005363 | 0xCC BSOD encountered during DTM Common Scenario Stress Test |
|  | Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64
3005377 | Drives disappear from the Intel® RST User Interface when a RAID volume is deleted. | Win7-64
3005379 | WHQL: AHCI mode STORAGE_ADAPTER_DESCRIPTOR returns BusTypeATA (WLK1.5 BLOCKING) |
3005389 | Intel® RST User Interface displays incorrect UI for Chinese Hong Kong | Vista
3005394 | Interrupting a recovery disk update process via Intel® RST will cause the master and recovery to show as "incompatible" in the OROM |
|  | Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64, Windows XP, Windows XP-64
3005402 | Error occurs on particular SSDs during rebuilding or migrating RAID 1 | Windows XP, Vista
3005412 | 0xA BSOD encountered during IO using PassMark | Vista, Win7
3005426 | It takes a long time to boot into Windows XP when installed on a RAID 0 using 2*SSD | Windows XP
3005294 | eSATA HDD is not detected after the second hot attach | Vista, Vista-64, Win7
3005360 | 0xD1 BSOD seen during extended S4/S3 power cycling | Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64
3005469 | Readme.txt in Program Files\Intel\IRST does not append appropriate License Agreement text in | Vista

Known Issues

Known Issues in 9.6.0.1014 Production Version |
Reference No | Description | Affected OS's
2688478 | Bogus un-initialization status after migrating RAID1 to RAID0 | Vista, Windows XP
2688481 | Errors seen after volume data verification on expanded RAID volumes | Windows XP, Vista
2723901 | SGPIO defaults not functioning correctly | Windows 2008
2724026 | Event ID 9 "iaStor" error in the system log | Windows XP, Vista
2724212 | "File not found" errors for Language Resource Version strings in Event Viewer | Vista, Windows XP
3005141 | Cannot rebuild to a new hard drive on RAID 5 | Windows XP
3005428 | Memory.dmp file is not being written with 9.5 based Intel® RST driver when Verifier is running | Windows 2003
3005585 | OS sporadically hangs with 0x7F BSOD during S4 cycling test | Win7,Win7-64
3005587 | OS sporadically hangs with 0x7A BSOD during S4 cycling test | Vista,Win7,Win7-64
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
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
2556766 | Modification of one volume fails during migration of a different volume | Vista,Vista-64,Windows 2003,Windows XP, Windows XP-64
2688213 | Driver returns truncated device firmware version for IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY | Vista
2688463 | HDDPWD-After Entering BIOS Password for Locked Disk During Resume from S4 Disk/Volume is still Locked | Windows XP-64
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
2688483 | Driver proceeds with volume creation if disk is missing | Windows XP
2688691 | Metadata is stored on target HDD when the UI blocks creation of IRRT volume | Vista
2723742 | Driver doesn't properly disable LPM when device that doesn't support LPM is connected | Other, Windows 2008
2723749 | Hot-plug eSATA/ODD results in OS and external ports to disappear from UI in AHCI mode | Vista, Windows XP
2723771 | After deletion of RAID 1 the second disk appears as offline | Win7
2723869 | >2TB single disk passthru support does not work properly | Vista-64
2724036 | Failure to Sync Following Togglemount Command | Win7-64
2724057 | Creation of a RAID 1 volume from OS drive hangs then fails the source drive | Vista,Win7
2724082 | HDDPWD-After S3/S4 a previously unlocked volume is shown as locked but is exported to OS | Win7-64
2724223 | Register definition doesn't match AHCI spec | Vista
3004454 | The Serial Number information of CD/DVD Drives is being reported incorrectly from the physical sticker | Vista,Vista-64
3004567 | Driver sending ATA commands to devices which don’t support the commands | Vista
3004736 | No "busy" feedback provided to end-user in UI during synchronous calls to service | Windows XP-64
3004737 | Modal dialogs violating Windows* UI guidelines (not emulating modal dialog behavior) | Windows XP-64
3004738 | Lack of button pressed state (for compliancy with Windows* standards) | Windows XP-64
3004750 | Event Viewer - Service started successfully txt is not localized on localized XP | Windows XP
3004763 | Windows Error Recovery screen on reboot – NoVE | Win7
3004911 | Intel® RST driver automatically starts Rebuild from Continuous Degraded Normal IRRT State when Master Disk attached | Win7
3004916 | Intel® RST driver incorrectly sets master disk as Smart error after rebuild if recovery disk has smart error | Win7
3004944 | Manage Volume status does not update from Add Disk if more help is launched from Add Disk dialog | Windows XP
3004972 | 3-drive RAID 0 Volume status is “Unknown” during Automatic rebuild to spare drive after SMART event | Win7-64
3005121 | Volume status "unknown" after recovering data from a degraded IRRT | Windows XP-64
3005199 | Report.txt need to have both English and localized text when installed on Localized OS. | Vista
3005247 | No details under 'manage' when drive is warned | Vista-64
3005263 | Change RAID0 type to RAID5 type fails in UI | Win7
3005390 | Hot unplug/plug true ESATA while System disk is migrating into RAID 1 causes UI migration data % to = 0 | Win7
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
3005407 | RAID 1 smart event does not rebuild to spare but tray icon reports migration | Win7,Win7-64,Windows XP-64
3005410 | System hangs during Toggle mount on a IRRT Volume | Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP
3005411 | IMSM 8.9 32-bit shell.exe allows user to setup RAID (1+0)x6 arrays | Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64
3005419 | 'Intel® RST service cannot be started in safe mode' dialog is not RTL-enabled (ARA + HEB only) | Vista
3005435 | UI displays incorrect colors for High Contrast themes offered by OS | Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64
3005453 | Lack of button pressed state (for compliancy with Windows* standards) | Windows XP-64
3005455 | Help file Index is not alphabetizing correctly in CHS, CHT | Vista,Vista-64
3005464 | Driver sending ATA commands to devices which don’t support the commands | Vista
3005468 | Sporadic system lock on eSATA hot-unplug and hot-plug | Win7
3005477 | Event Viewer - Service started successfully txt is not localized on localized XP | Windows XP
3005487 | IRST Driver automatically starts Rebuild from Continuous Degraded Normal IRRT State when Master Disk attached | Win7
3005490 | IRST Driver incorrectly sets master disk as Smart error after rebuild if recovery disk has smart error | Win7
3005492 | Manage Volume status does not update from Add Disk if more help is launched from Add Disk dialog | Windows XP
3005553 | RAID 1 smart event does not rebuild to spare but tray icon reports migration | Win7,Win7-64,Windows XP-64
3005568 | OROM User Interface showing empty drive (no model number, serial number) | Vista
3005573 | Tools tip go back and forward between Localized and English in Windows XP | Windows XP
3005599 | Scroll bars displaying incorrect behavior under ‘Create’ tab | Vista,Vista-64,Win7,Win7-64
3005617 | Deleting a RAID 10 while migrating leaves raw partitions on multiple drives | Win7
3005618 | Extra character after "Intel" in the System Manufacturer section | Windows 2008
3005620 | Clicking on system report page causes it to scroll to the bottom | Windows 2008
3005628 | 0xD5 BSOD sporadically observed during extended S4 cycles | Win7-64
3005630 | The Readme file has the wrong description of the -NOSERVICE and the -NOIRSTGUI command line switches | Vista
3005652 | Help - Content is missing for SATA transfer mode 6 Gb/s (Gen 3) | Vista,Win7,Windows XP
3005664 | Localized OS shows Help top menu items in ENU on History/Backlog list | Win7
3005666 | :0 or colon + zero is appended to serial number of drive in recovery volume | Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP
2723625 | JPN, KOR, CHS, CHT characters are displayed as if they are Bolded throughout UI & Help in XP | Windows XP
3005503 | ARA/HEB_error dialogs on Online Support in Help not RtL enabled | Vista, Win7, Windows XP
2723856 | ARA/HEB Help page Arrow icon is not following the correct layout | Vista
2723619 | Help file Index is not alphabetizing correctly in CHS, CHT | Vista, Vista-64