Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Production Version 7.0.0.1020
Release Notes
Feburary 23, 2007
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Microsoft Windows
Vista*
Microsoft Windows Vista x64
Edition*
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 on mobile platforms
| Date | Driver Revision | Build Number |
| February 23, 2007 | Production Version 7.0.0.1020 | 1020 |
| February 22, 2007 | Production Candidate 7.0.0.1020 | 1020 |
| November 10, 2006 | Beta 7.0.0.1012 | 1012 |
| October 5, 2006 | Beta 7.0.0.1008 | 1008 |
| August 9, 2006 | Alpha 7.0.0.1004 | 1004 |
| April 3, 2006 | Pre-Alpha 7.0.0.1001 | 1001 |
New Features
| New features in Baseline 7.0 | |
| Feature | Description |
| ICH8M and ICH8M-E support | Support for ICH8M and ICH8M-E based systems. |
| Intel® Rapid Recover Technology | Introducing Intel® Rapid Recover Technology on platforms with ICH8M-E. This feature allows the primary system drive to be cloned either in continuous or manual update mode. The fast sync capability brings about faster synchronization. The ability to boot to the recovery drive facilitates rapid recovery of the system in the event of a primary hard drive failure. |
| Improved Event logging | The list of Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager events reported in the system event log has been improved and enhanced. |
| Known Issues in Production Candidate 7.0.0.1020 | ||
| Reference No: | Description | Affected OS's |
|
2211306 |
Volume Update Progress screen does not come up when process starts. | All OSs |
| 2210987 |
Recovery Progress screen does not come up when process starts. |
All OSs |
| 1946253 | The Drive firmware number on the left pane is corrupted (Arabic ) | All OSs |
| 2140100 | When rebuilding volume, progress status title and completion message display "Updating Volume" | All OSs |
| 1967402 | RTL: form caption of About dialog is not RTL reading order | Windows XP |
| 2210902 | Error message displayed if error occurs when creating a RAID 1 volume in basic mode is not localized | Windows XP |
| 2158365 | Intel® Matrix Storage Manager console application crashes when more than 16 localized characters are entered for recovery volume name | All OSs |
| 2197531 | ARA - Intel logo in margin and in about dialog is flipped | All OSs |
| 2197551 | Intel® Rapid Recover Technology: UI returns non descriptive error when deleting volume with mounted disk | All OSs |
| 2294301 | Timeouts, degraded RAID volumes when playing/transcoding video files in Apple iTunes* and QuickTime* software | Windows Vista |
| 2328095 | 'TM' replaced by ? in system report on Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese versions of Vista. | Windows Vista |
| 99748 | Drives are labeled Master and Recovery in the wrong order when a Recovery volumes is created through the OROM UI | All OSs |
| 2292015 | Disk write-buffering checkbox should be disabled in Vista | Windows Vista |
| 2079363 | Resetting any drive of a RAID 1 boot volume makes both drives appear as system drives and may hang the system. This is an expected behavior and not a defect. | All OSs |
| 2287906 | Drive Model and Serial # information of hard drive is getting truncated (RAIDCGFG32 /st | All OSs |
| 2291885 | Unable to "Access Recovery Drive Files" from a SATA boot Intel® Rapid Recover Technology volume | All OSs |
| 1998924 | Balloons are showing up LTR and not RTL on English OS when regional settings are changed to ARA or HRB | All OSs |
| Issues Resolved in Production Candidate 7.0.0.1020 | |||
| Reference No: | Description | Affected Components | Affected OS's |
| 2102039 | Matrix RAID option ROM's POST stalls for 1.5 minutes for devices without SMART support. | OROM | All OS's |
| 1996570 | Windows XP install from SATA ODD cannot start on RAID 5 volume with active partitions on drives other than drive 0 in the array | Driver | All OS's |
| 2257001 | Users are not prompted an error message indicating that HDD is degraded within the RAID 5 setup | User Interface | All OS's |
|
2288717
|
Missing member of RAID0 becomes to fail after 'Verify Volume Data' is canceled. |
User Interface | All OS's |
|
2292015 |
Raid Migration Procedure not clear in Help file | Help | All OS's |
| 2292599 | Can't burn audio CD/DVD in 64-bit Vista when optical drive controlled by IMSM | Driver | Windows Vista 64-bit |
|
2172826 |
Hide Recovery/Master Drive Files option not available in Advanced mode |
User Interface | All OS's |
| Issues Resolved in Beta 7.0.0.1012 | |||
| Reference No | Description | Affected Components | Affected OS's |
| 1997701 | User Interface allows the input of 20 characters for a volume name when it should limit it to 16 | User Interface | All OS's |
| 2052854 | Bad dialog box message when disk is failed or unplugged during Verify | User Interface | All OS's |
| 2053386 | Starting a volume initialization does not invoke the initialization status dialog | User Interface | All OS's |
|
2054916
|
Value of "Blocks with Media Errors" parameter in the UI Information panel should be changed from "reassigned" to "ECC Error found" during RAID 0 Verify |
User Interface | All OS's |
|
2076842 |
OROM shows drive as "unknown drive" instead of as "offline member" | OROM | All OS's |
| 2100652 | Fast Sync update progress not reported correctly for Recovery volumes | All OS's | |
| 2143025 | Recovery Volume Update fails in Basic mode | User Interface | All OS's |
|
2172826 |
Hide Recovery/Master Drive Files option not available in Advanced mode |
User Interface | All OS's |
| Issues Resolved in Beta 7.0.0.1008 | |||
| Reference No | Description | Affected Components | Affected OS's |
| 2113496 | Deleting a Recovery Volume leaves disks in an abnormal state | Driver | All OS's |
| 2140313 | System crashes when creating a Recovery Volume on 750GB HDDs | Driver | All OS's |
| 2157891 | 'Recover Volume' menu option not present for the Failed volume when disks are normal | User Interface | All OS's |
| 2170264 | Port shown as unknown while Recovery Volume is created in Basic Mode | User Interface | All OS's |
| 2172403 | HDD rescan locks up the machine | Driver | All OS's |
|
2172827 |
Deleting Volume after Master has been mounted leaves disk in 'Invalid Disk' state | Driver | All OS's |
| Issues Resolved in Alpha 7.0.0.1004 | |||
| Reference No | Description | Affected Components | Affected OS's |
| 2139064 | The RAID alerts in Korean appear corrupted in the Alerts.xml file | CCU.Plugin.MatrixStorage | All OS's |
| 2125811 | Removedrv.txt file is empty during uninstall after the product is installed to a custom path | Installer | All OSs |
| 2114658 | Tray Icon showing invalid message while initializing (Verify/Fix) the volume | User Interface | Windows XP |
| 2078414 | Verify and Repair progress dialog title is severely truncated in ENU and multiple other languages | User Interface | All OS's |
| 2139284 | Master Disk cannot be mounted in Continuous Mode | Driver | All OS's |
| 2103410 | Help file occasionally can't be opened after reinstalling Intel® Matrix Storage Manager | User Interface | Windows XP |