Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Production Version 5.7.0.1011
Release Notes


March 10, 2006

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Supported Operating Systems

    Microsoft* Windows* XP Home Edition
    Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional
    Microsoft* Windows* XP x64 Edition
    Microsoft* Windows*
2000 Advanced Server**
    Microsoft* Windows*
Server 2003
    Microsoft* Windows*
2003 x64 Edition
    Microsoft* Windows* Media Center Edition

** Not available for ICH6M

Revision History

Date Driver Revision Build Number
March 10, 2006 Production Version 5.7.0.1011 1011
March 2, 2006 Production Candidate 5.7.0.1011 1011
January 11, 2006 Beta 5.7.0.1007 1007
December 5, 2005 Alpha 5.7.0.1005 1005
October 18, 2005 Pre-Alpha 5.7.0.1002 1002

New Features

New Features in Baseline 5.7
Feature  Description
RAID on mobile support Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, and matrix RAID on platforms with ICH7MDH

Known Issues

Known Issues in Production Candidate 5.7.0.1011
Reference No:  Description Affected OS's
N/A

Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in Production Candidate 5.7.0.1011
Reference No:  Description Components Affected OS's
1966242 Original and replacement hard drives display incorrect port numbers after RAID 1 volume moved to degraded state by setting hard drive to non-RAID UI All
1972800 Using the spacebar during POST causes the system to not see bootable hard drive or volume OROM Dos
1942216 Too many retries for drive ECC errors Driver All
1940820 Resume from hibernate (S4 power state) is very slow with some hard drives OROM Dos
1967376 RAID 5 performance appears lower than expected Driver All
1946258 The default volume name shows up in Arabic and Hebrew is not a valid name Localization Translation All
1950786 ESP: IMSM fails to install with IIF installer Installer All
1963961 UI updated to use new logo UI All

Issues Resolved in Beta 5.7.0.1007

 Reference No:

Description

Components

 Affected OS's

1766218

Takes 1hr before hard drive is polled for SMART events in AHCI mode

Driver

Windows XP / 2000

1778201

-l switch is not functional in the English language

Installer

All

1944491

Unable to enable or disable the volume cache for RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 volumes

Windows XP/ 2000

Windows XP / 2000

1944008

RAICcfg32 version check fails

Windows XP

Dos

1778206

All languages: 'Show Migration Progress' dialogs seen during rebuilds not localized

Localization Translation

All

Issues Resolved in Alpha 5.7.0.1004
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's
1716939 Installer not working on Windows XP x64 Edition Installer XP 64
1940820 Event viewer error when resuming from S3 power management state in RAID mode Driver Windows XP / 2000
1940820 After deleting a 4-drive RAID 10 volume, partition still exists on 2 of the disks. RAID OROM DOS