Intel® Matrix Storage
Manager
Production Candidate 5.6.0.1019
Release Notes
December 1,
2005
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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
| 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 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 |