Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Production Candidate 5.6.0.1019

Release Notes


December 1, 2005

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Supported Operating Systems

    Microsoft* Windows* XP Home Edition
    Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional
    Microsoft* Windows* XP x64 Edition
    Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Professional

    Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Advanced Server**

    Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003
    Microsoft* Windows* Media Center Edition
 

** Not available for ICH5R or ICH6M

Revision History

Date Driver Revision Build Number
December 1, 2005 Production Candidate 5.6.0.1019 1019
October 6, 2005 Beta 5.6.0.1014 1014
September 2, 2005 Alpha 5.6.0.1012 1012
July 21, 2005 Pre-Alpha 5.6.0.1005 1005

 

New Features

New Features in Baseline 5.6

Feature 

Description

ESB2 Support

Support for ESB2 chipset

6 Port support

Support for six SATA Channels

Known Issues

Known Issues in Production Candidate 5.6.0.1019
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's
N/A N/A    

Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in Production Candidate 5.6.0.1019
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's
1702736

A blue screen will occur on an ICH7R system when a RAID 1 volume is rebuilding and a drive is removed, reinserted, then removed again before the rebuild completes

Driver Windows XP
1701929 Storage Console will only allow user to change write cache setting on the first array UI Windows XP / 2000
1702736 Blue screen will occur on ICH7 system when RAID 1 is rebuilding and Rescan PlugnPlay is selected Driver Windows XP / 2000
1765433 Options unavailable after creating an array OROM DOS
Issues Resolved in Beta 5.6.0.1014
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's
1648349 RaidCfg32 crashes when called with /ds option Utility Windows
1683042 WHQL Failure: Driver Verifier - Hangs resuming S4 Driver Windows 2003 Server
Issues Resolved in Alpha 5.6.0.1012
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's
1648349 RaidCfg cannot create RAID 0 and 5 volumes with 5 and 6 drives Utility DOS
1653994 RaidWiz Delete Volume deleting wrong volume UI Windows XP / 2000
1655093 When creating an array of > 2TB the first volume size is total disk size is less than 2TB Driver Windows XP / 2000
1655996 Data integrity issues with volumes in DOS. Ghost, seqio, and Hlio tests all fail with volumes Driver Windows XP / 2000
1653995 High CPU usage in Storage Console Driver Windows XP / 2000
Issues Resolved in Pre-Alpha 5.6.0.1005
 Reference No: Description Components  Affected OS's