Intel® Turbo
Memory
Production Version Release Notes
March 13, 2007
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Supported Hardware:
·
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset based Platforms supporting AHCI
Mode
·
Intel® Turbo Memory Technology
Revision History:
|
Package
Definition |
Intel®
Turbo Memory Driver Revision |
Intel®
Matrix Storage Manager Driver Revision |
Release
Date |
|
PV |
1.0.0.1082 |
7.0.0.1020 |
March 13, 2007 |
Behavioral Considerations
Power Policy Considerations: The power policies
defined by Microsoft Windows Vista (balanced, maximum battery, and maximum
performance) impact both power and performance of a specific system. When
conducting any drive level testing, please consider that the hard drive will be
spun down more often in an aggressive power policy at the expense of a several
second delay when the hard drive is spun back up.
Resume Time Measurement
considerations: There is a discrepancy between the
use of Microsoft’s Power Test utility in WDK and stopwatch method in measuring
resume from standby (S3) and hibernate (S4).
Until this is resolved, Intel recommends the stopwatch method for
measuring these times.
ReadyBoost Status: On a Microsoft Windows ReadyBoost enabled system, each time the OS
boots up, there is a short window when the ReadyBoost status in the Intel®
Turbo Memory GUI shows as disabled. This
is caused by the OS generating the ReadyBoost file. Once the file is created, the Intel® Turbo
Memory GUI will show the status as enabled.
Boot Disk Replication Considerations: On a system where a pre-configured OS image is installed on the boot
disk and the image has the Intel® Turbo Memory driver package already
installed, the disk volume supporting ReadyBoost may not be configured
properly. Under this condition, the GUI
should be used to correctly configure the disk volume. For a volume which is unallocated, open the
GUI, enable ReadyBoost support, and then restart the system. For a volume which has a drive letter
assigned, delete the volume via the Disk Management OS service (another option:
open the GUI, disable ReadyBoost, and then restart the system), open the GUI,
enable ReadyBoost support, and then restart the system.
Intel® Turbo Memory Upgrade/Replacement
Considerations: Any Intel® Turbo
Memory hardware change on an enabled system requires that the driver package be
uninstalled before the hardware is changed and re-installed after the hardware
has been changed. The steps when
changing the hardware are as follows:
Uninstall the driver (go to “Programs and Features” in Control Panel),
power down, change hardware, boot to the OS, re-install the driver package.
Features
|
Features |
|
|
Feature |
Description |
|
Microsoft*
Windows* ReadyDrive* |
The
Intel® Turbo Memory
driver supports Windows ReadyDrive technology by providing full implementation of the
NVCACHE Command Handling as defined by the T13 specification. |
|
Microsoft Windows ReadyBoost* |
The Intel®
Turbo Memory driver supports Windows
ReadyBoost technology. |
|
Power
Tuning |
When
system is idle in DC balanced mode, the drive spins down more aggressively to
conserve power. |
|
Intel®
Turbo Memory GUI |
GUI
that reports Intel® Turbo Memory information and allows enable/disable of its
functionality. |
|
Dynamic
OROM Update |
The DFOROM will be updated to match the driver’s version if a DFOROM mismatch is detected during installation or during boot. The installer must be used in order for this feature to be supported. |
|
OROM
Serial Number Format |
The OROM supports a 31 character Alphanumeric string for the serial number. |
|
Graceful
Cache Degradation |
Implementation of graceful
degradation of caching in case of NAND wear-out. |
|
Localization
support |
Intel®
Turbo Memory is currently supported in 9 languages in addition to English. |
|
ReadyDrive
Registry Auto-population |
The Intel® Turbo Memory installer
supports automatic population of the Windows ReadyDrive challenge results and
enables Windows ReadyDrive on first boot after install. |
Issues Resolved
|
Reference No: |
Description |
|
N/A |
Please see Intel® Matrix Storage
Manager release notes for a list of fixes specific to that driver. |
|
N/A |
Baseline release |
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