This release note and the software that accompanies it are copyright (c) 2004, Intel Corporation, and may only be installed and used in accordance with the license that accompanies the software.

Driver Version = 5.47-00
OS supported = Windows* 2000


This download supports Intel(R) RAID controllers using software stack 2 (the SRCU42X, SRCU42E, SROMBU42E, SRCZCRX, & SRCS16), please verify that this driver has been tested with the RAID card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at //Support.Intel.Com.
This package contains the Microsoft Windows* 2000 driver.  This driver is not compatible with the SRCU21, SRCU31, SRCU31L, SRCMR, SRCZCR, SRCU32, SRCU42L, or SRCS14LRAID controllers.

Please check the website to obtain the Microsoft* signed version of this driver.
During OS installation, if prompted that the .cat file can not be found, click to skip copying this file.  This file contains the signature which is not included with this version.

Contents
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The following files are included in this zip:

Name				DAte		Size		Description
MRAID2K.PDB			03/22/04	345KB 		Update file
MRAID2K.SYS			03/22/04	25KB		Source Code Driver file
Web License.rtf			07/02/03	13KB		License file
NODEV.INF			04/08/04	2KB		Install support
OEMSETUP.INF			04/12/04	6KB		Install support
TXTSETUP.OEM			04/08/04	3KB		Zip file	
mraid2k.cat			10/09/03	9		Signature file (invalid)
Win2K_DRV_readme.txt		06/30/04	5KB		This file


Attention!
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This updated driver can be applied using the normal OS installation options.
Extract package contents to a user specified location such as = a:\

This procedure installs the Intel RAid device driver on a new Windows 2000 system. Windows 2000 automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to the appropriate directory.

1. Start the Windows 2000 installation by booting from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM.
The system BIOS must support booting from a CD-ROM. BIOS settings might require changes to allow CD-ROM booting. See your system documentation.

2. Press <F6> when the screen displays: Press F6 if you need...
Note: You must press <F6> for the system to recognize the new driver.

3. Choose <S> to specify an additional device when the screen displays:
Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices... 
Note: If this screen is not displayed as the first user input, then pressing <F6> was not seen by the setup program. Reboot the system, and return to step 2.

4. The system prompts for the manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk. Insert the driver diskette containing the Windows 2000 device driver, and press <Enter>.

5. Select the Windows 2000 device driver from the menu by highlighting it and press <Enter>.

6. Press <Enter> again to proceed.

7. Return to the Windows 2000 Setup screen.

8. Windows displays a Welcome to Setup window. 

9. Press <Enter> to proceed.

10. Follow the Microsoft Windows 2000 installation procedure by pressing C to continue.

11. Repeat this process for each channel on your system.


Existing Windows 2000 System Driver Installation:
This procedure installs or updates the Intel RAID device driver on an existing Windows 2000 system.

1. Boot Windows 2000.  The Found New Hardware Wizard begins. 

2. Click the Next button.

3. Insert the driver diskette into the A:\ drive.

4. Click the Search for a Suitable Driver... button and click Next.

5. Click the Next button.

6. Check the Specify Location box, uncheck all other boxes, and click the Next button.

7. Type A:\ and click the OK button.

8. Click the Next button on the Driver Files Search Results window.

9. Click the Finish button to complete the driver installation.

10. Repeat this process for all the channels on your controller.



Fixes/Updates
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1. - During heavy I/O in the cluster environment Driver used to stall the cpu for 3  min in a tigh loop when it received the reset command from the OS.  Due to this system used to freeze and cluster failover did not happen. As a fix instead of the tight loop in the reset path driver added a timer routine which will periodically invoked and it will calculate the actual system time elapsed from the start of the issuing of reset and if it is more than 3 min it will make the adapter dead as previously.  

2. - If a logical drive is failed, driver did not exposed it to the OS and this results in a mismatch in the logical drive mapping between OS and RAID Management utilities. This driver will expose the failed logical drive to the OS but complete the failed IO request to with proper status information.  This will fix the mismatch issue.

3. - Addition of "Intel(R) SRCU42E SCSI Processor Device" to the nodev.inf file.



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