Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 14.5.0.1081 Production Version release

 

25 June 2015


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Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows 7*

Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition*

Microsoft Windows 8*#

Microsoft Windows 8 x64 Edition*

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64*#

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Edition*#

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Edition*

Microsoft Windows 8.1*#

Microsoft Windows 8.1 x64 Edition*

Microsoft Windows 10*#

Microsoft Windows 10 x64 Edition*

 

 #- These OS versions pass validation testing, but are not WHQL certified.

 

 

 

Revision History

Date

Driver Revision

Build Number

25 June 2015

14.5.0.1081 Production version release

1081

12 June 2015

14.5.0.1081 Production Candidate release

1081

30 April 2015

14.5.0.1041 Beta2 release

1041

19 March 2015

14.5.0.1032 Beta1 release

1032

9 January 2015

14.0.0.1081 release

1081

18 December 2014

14.0.0.1065 Alpha2 release

1065

10 November 2014

14.0.0.1055 release

1055

10 November 2014

14.0.0.1047 release

1047

16 October 2014

14.0.0.1040 Alpha release

1040

11 September 2014

14.0.0.1007 Pre-Alpha release

1007

 

Notes:  

1.    Known Issue is defined as a potential RST issue that has been replicated internally by the Rapid Storage Technology team but has not been root caused to be an RST defect.

2.    The RAID OROM & UEFI version for this release is 14.5.0.2241, the driver and user interface version is 14.5.0.1081.

      The Devslp tool is posted under the CLI tool components on VIP kit.

3.      RST 14.5 release enables support for new platforms & features (includes legacy support for platforms and features supported in RST 14.0)

·         Skylake mobile U/Y and Desktop Corporate Platform, SKL-H 4+2 Platform

·         Microsoft® Windows 10 support for BDW/HSW/Skylake and X99 platforms

·         Microsoft® Windows 10 enhancements

·         InstantGo and Modern Standby Support

·         Adaptive RTD3 Support

·         Intel® SRT Caching for Microsoft® InstantGo Support (SATA based Dual and Hybrid Drives).   

4.    For recommendation on Windows 10 upgrade scenarios, please refer the 14.5 OEM technical guide posted along with this kit

5.    When RTD3 is enabled in BIOS, unable to create a RAID volume in UI or RST CLI. UI will report an error and volume will not be created. Bug affects Win8.1, BDW & SKL platforms. Unable to reproduce on Win10.

             Workaround:  Disable RTD3 in BIOS, then create desired RAID configuration in UI and afterwards re-enable RTD3 (or) to create RAID volume directly in BIOS/EFI. Fix will be available in future BIOS releases.

6.      CAT error observed during OS install on RVP3 C0 (PCH-LP) with PCIe storage.

             Workaround: In RVP BIOS, go to Intel Advanced Menu -> PCH-IO configuration -> PCI Express Configuration -> PCI Express Root Port 5 -> PCIE5 CLKREQ Mapping Override: enabled

                                   CLKREQ Number: [1]

7.    Issue related to RAID sku detection fixed in 14.5.0.2241 OROM. Customers might run into issues related to enabling RAID mode on some of the Skylake sku’s with previous pre-OS version

8.    No RST support for PCIe storage devices in AHCI mode.

 

 

 

 

*Contact your Intel® Rapid Storage Technology representative with any questions.*

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in 14.5.0.1081 Production Candidate release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4938225

Unable to clear RAID metadata using rstcli32.exe

WinPE 3.0

4938297

Win 7 Hot undocking and activating accelerometer cause blue screen/hangs with IRST

Win7,Win7-64

4938400

Issue with S4 with RAID 5 configuration

Windows 8 - 64

4938268

BSoD occur when AC adapter plug or unplug at F6 driver update.

Windows 10

4938396

Black screen issue with S4 on SKL platforms using NVMe devices

Windows Blue - 64

4938374

Loading RST 14.0 driver through F6 Install on Windows 7 x 64 results in BSOD.

Win7-64

4938293

The remapped NVMe SSD is assigned to dynamical SATA port in 14.x

WinPE 2.0

4938255

RAID 0 low performance (2 remapped NVMe devices)

Windows 10-64

4938372

[RTD3] RST driver does not allow D3 on RTD3 capable ports in Mixed RAID Volumes

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938189

[RST] [PCIe AHCI] Extremely low performance during copying file to RAID volume

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938046

 [RAID 1] [PCIe NVMe] RAID 1 going into 'failed' state during coping files to the volume.

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4938250

Workaround added to resolve ODD disappearing issues on Skylake

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938021

Incorrect storage controller name displayed in IRST GUI System Report

Win7-64

4938184

Incorrect SMS bit (SATA Mode Select) bit check in RCmpSata utility

PreOS

Resolved Issues in 14.5.0.1041 Beta2 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3372057

ODD with disk got disappear under OS

 

4938049

Windows explorer freezes when non-detectable (mulfunctin) eSata drive is connected

Win7,Win7-64

4938069

RST CLI problems with disk identification

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938146

BSoD 0x0A appeared when entering S4 on Win7

Win7-64

4938159

SKL platform cannot enter S4 in Windows 7

Win7,Win7-64

4938154

Random hang issues pointing to Bug Check D1 (RST driver) seen during the Reboot cycling

Windows 10-64

4937961

Cannot disable Hybrid hitting function via registry with certain SSHD

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938147

14.0 beta RSTCLI64.exe tool failed in reporting Raid/drive information

Windows 8.1 - 64

Resolved Issues in 14.5.0.1032 Beta1 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937869

BSOD D1 after run burn-in test within 24 hr

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938101

SRT doesn't speed up the HDD data transfer on Win10

Windows 10,Windows 10-64

4938136

Cannot install RST on Windows 10 using RST Installer (Setup.exe)

Windows - 10

4938068

AHCI identify request sends incorrect data length

Win7,Win7-64,Windows 8,Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1,Windows 8.1 - 64

4938027

Remapped PCIe AHCI/NVMe storage device has hardcoded values of PCIe link speed.

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937939

SRT-Volume DRAM Cache is not set to Off after turning on acceleration

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938065

[NVMe] Second recovery from S3 followed by heavy IO causes BSOD

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938029

During 24h stress I/O test on RAID1 (OS), BSOD iaStorA.sys occurs.

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4938024

Remapped NVME disk lost its SRT metadata after shutdown

Windows 8.1 - 64

4938011

RST not supported on HSWe(8D02) in AHCI mode, Win10

Windows 10

4937787

RST returns wrong SSD model name if iSRT cache volume is created on it

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

Resolved Issues in 14.0.0.1081 Alpha3 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937966

[CLI] rstcli crash after getting cache info

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937958

UI crashes when trying to remove acceleration

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937949

After installing the RST driver on Win7 system on B0 take ~15 to 20 mins to boot to OS

Win7-64

4937830

Zero Power ODD re-enumeration problems.

Windows 8.1 - 64,Win7-64

4937872

Two drives marked as "System drive" in RST UI

Windows 8.1 - 64

Resolved Issues in 14.0.0.1065 Alpha2 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937881

Exception is thrown after clicking 'CREATE PAGE' in UI having 2 PCIe AHCI devices

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937812

RST PCIe NVMe performance - PCMarkVantage low benchmark score

Windows 8 - 64

4937898

Certain PCIe AHCI drives freeze when Intel Rapid Storage Technology service starts

Windows 8 - 64

4937886

Rebuild to spare drive does NOT work with SSD drives

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937113

The system displays two ODD icons after hotplug ODD

Windows 8,Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937644

BSOD occurred when restart the unit after enable acceleration with full disk capacity on both Max/Enh modes

Win7-64

4937646

BSoD 0xFC occur at F6 driver downgrade.

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937799

BSOD/System hung after trying to create partition on a RAID (0/1) made of remapped AHCI

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937862

RST invalid iaAHCIC.inf device input for SKL series

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937777

IRST uninstaller doesn't require rebooting.

Windows 8.1 - 64

Resolved Issues in 14.0.0.1055 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937775

[RST UI 14.0] missing option accelerate (Performance page tab) while only system disk (ssd) and one pci-e is plugged in.

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937788

It is impossible to choose CREATE tab in UI when using 2TB HDD as OS disk

Win7-64

4937805

Creating partition on RAID 0 (two NVMe or two PCIe SSD disks, strip size 4kB, 8kB or 64kB) causes Win8.1 to BSOD

Windows 8 - 64

Resolved Issues in 14.0.0.1047 release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937748

System label" missing near the 2TB HDD icon in UI

Win7-64

4937535

SSD/HDD model name in Win7 Device Manager will be changed incorrectly after RST driver installed.

Win7-64

Resolved Issues in 14.0.0.1040 Alpha release

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

4937669

BSOD when trying to rebuild an uninitialized RAID volume

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937692

Sharp fall down of RST driver performance for certain SSD drive with PCMark Vantage points on Legacy Platforms

Windows 8 - 64

4937721

Unable to install RST Driver in AHCI mode. Some device IDs are missing in RST driver version 14.0.0.1025 onwards

Windows 8,Windows 8 - 64

4937686

Disk acceleration (SRT) and RAID creation don't work with certain devices

Windows 8 - 64

4937717

BSOD when trying to hide recovery files (RRT)

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937575

Sleep and PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Certification)

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937622

Media detect and tray eject become slow on BDW platform.

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937569

Too much time to detect ODD with RST.

Win7,Win7-64

4937213

Longer shutdown time with WD 8GB NAND SSHD while Hybrid Hinting is enabled

Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1 - 64

4937601

WHCK-PC Resume test meet failure as total resume time is longer than 2000ms

Windows 8.1 - 64

4937564

UI - Switching from one user to another and back causes the UI to display invalid items and buttons

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in 14.5.0.1081 Production Version release

 

 

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

 

4938369

The RST UI displays SATA ports, in spite of the proper registers programmed properly to disable unnecessary SATA ports in BIOS

Windows 8 - 64

 

4938357

Error code 0x80070017 occurred while installing Win8.1 on the NVMe remapped Raid 1 volume

Windows Blue - 64

 

4938433

Intermittent 7E BSOD observed with s3/s4 test.

Windows_10_mobile_x64

 

4938287

Error message display when run NvCacheScripts

Windows Blue - 64

 

4938404

SATA HDD is identified as PCIe device in RST HII

Windows 8 - 64

 

4938405

System hang at 0xa0 issue with certain PCIe M.2 AHCI device

Windows 8 - 64

 

4938273

Removing the lowest numbered driver causes BSOD.

Win7

 

4938269

SUT hang up intermittently when press 'Ctrl + I' enter Intel RAID OROM

EFI

 

4938256

RAID Volume degraded sometime after built

None

 

4938351

System lag if installed iRST driver with certain HDD

Win7-64

 

4938261

SCSI Compliance test failing

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938275

RAID0 created using legacy OROM missing metadata on one of the drives

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938246

PCIe NVMe SSD 2DR0 (2-disk RAID 0) performance lower than pass-through single SSD

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938248

HDD pops out an unexpected "ca" noise when system enters S4 or Cold boot

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938263

Can hear significant HDD shutdown sound while system entering S4 or S5

Windows 8 - 64

 

4938206

BSOD 0x9F occurred as reboot system after finishing Burn-in tool (4 hours) (add HDD R/W loading) test

Windows Server 8 - 64

 

4938260

PCIe NVMe SSD 2-Disk RAID 0 low performance issue

EFI

 

4938171

[RCfgSata][DOS] Partition table is not preserved when using the /U switch

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938173

[RCfgsata][EFI][DOS]Incomplete serial number of drives is output when using the /ST switch

EFI,Other

 

4938177

[RST EFI CLI] EFI CLI config disk status does not show system disk information

EFI

 

4938175

[rcfgsata.efi][SKL] Cannot boot to OS after creating RAID1 out of two data drives while preserving an MBR partition table

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4938111

DevSlpRegEditTool creates reg keys with invalid disk product_id

Windows 10-64

 

4937999

WHQL test "Driver Memory Test" failed on SharkBay Refresh

Windows 8.1

 

4937705

Driver cannot be uninstalled via Device manager on Windows 8.1 August update

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937906

rstcli.exe, rstcli64.exe allow to create recovery volume consisted of SATA and NVMe disks

Windows 8 - 64

 

4937885

CSMI reporting invalid Serial Number during failure situations

Windows Server 8

 

4937578

Driver: CE BSOD iastorA.sys occurs while uninstalling RST driver on a custom Windows 8.1 OS

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937417

Enabling SRT changes Device Manager Disk Drive Information

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937630

UI - PCI-E SSD custom space defaults at 64 GB, even if the drive has less than 64 GB of space left

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937470

Cache fail results in hangs/BSOD

Windows 8.1

 

4937358

UI: BSOD when clicking "Hide recovery disk files" actionable link with On request RRT Volume.

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937399

UI: System drive is not displaying or being recognized in RST UI

Win7-64

 

4937304

Iastor BSOD when auto rebuilding volume to the same port

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937256

SRT filecopy performance much worse than HDD

Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937286

UI Writeback Cache checkbox (Advanced tab) disabled during IRRT volume creation

Windows 8

 

4937082

All expected TRIMs are not occurring on SRT

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937196

"Offline" disk shows up as "Normal" after reinserting back into system while RAID 5(or RAID 10) is rebuilding and restarting system

Win7-64,Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937109

BSOD 9f occurs when certain PCIe-AHCI SSD is attached.

Windows 8 - 64

 

4936925

After multiple iterations of Hybrid S3 or S4, the sleep utility tool indicates errors when RST driver is installed.

 

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4936995

Dump Driver fails to capture Crash Dump when OS is installed on certain NVMe devices.

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937083

OS Spindown of matrix RAID volumes causes hang

Windows 8 - 64

 

4937068

SMART Event disk rebuilding after system reboot of successful Raid 1 creation

Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4937046

internal_power_error (A0) BSOD with hybrid S3

Win7-64,Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4936840

BSOD 0xD1 reported with inbox driver 12.0.1.1018

Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4936673

No timeout for a device that does not enumerate and stalls the OS boot process

Windows 8 - 64,Windows 8.1 - 64

 

4630242

Refresh issues when changing from Windows default theme to high contrast

Win7-64,Windows 2008-64,Windows 8 - 64

 

4628030

After configuring SRT and conducting Dirty Shutdowns error: Unable to find System Disk

Windows 8

 

4628443

RST Driver – Test hangs while running Inquiry command on ODD

Other

 

3236644

SRT: Driver fails to enumerate an accelerated disk or volume during an F6 install if a system disk is already attached to the system

Win7-64

 

4160949

UI reports Unknown status and incorrect sync mode after hot-removing the recovery disk of an IRRTm while the sync is initializing.

Win7-64

 

4160928

WHQL: RST not compliant with Device.DevFund.Memory.DriverFootprint requirements for x86

Windows 8

 

4628161

ZPODD power off timer does not reset upon receipt of CSMI I/O

Win7,Windows 8