Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Beta 7.0.0.1012
Release Notes

November 10, 2006
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Supported Operating Systems

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 for ICH6M

Revision History

Date | Driver Revision | Build Number
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(R) Rapid Recover Technology | Introducing Intel (R) Rapid Recover Technology on platforms with ICH8M-E. This feature allows the primary system drive to be cloned either in continuous mode 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.

Known Issues

Known Issues in Beta 7.0.0.1012
Reference No: | Description | Affected OS's
2211306 | Volume Update Progress screen does not come up when process starts. | All OSs
2210989 | Recovery Progress screen does not come up when process starts. | All OSs
2210987 | Create Recovery Volume Progress screen does not come up when process starts. | All OSs
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 | Windows XP
2140100 | When rebuilding volume, progress status title and completion message display "Updating Volume" | All OSs
2102039 | Matrix RAID option ROM's POST stalls for 1.5 minutes for devices without SMART support. | Windows XP
2210902 | Error message message displayed if error occurs when creating a RAID 1 volume in basic mode is not localized | Windows XP
1998924 | Balloons are showing up LTR and not RTL on English OS when regional settings are changed to ARA or HRB | All OSs

Resolved Issues

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 | V alue 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 a funny 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 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