1. ICH9R_LSI_RAID_093202072008.zip Driver
2. readme.txt File Contents

readme.txt Driver File Contents (ICH9R_LSI_RAID_093202072008.zip)

¡E In SWR5 driver, RAID 5 feature is enabled only if iButton is present in the system.
   BIOS communicates the presence/absence of iButton using configuration data on disk (DDF). 
   If driver does not read a valid DDF, it will disable R5 creation. 
   Driver may not see valid DDF if (A) user does not configure using BIOS Ctrl+M; or (B) if no drives were present at the boot time and all the drives were hot-inserted after OS is booted. 
   In both cases, user must create initial configuration using BIOS Ctrl+M utility.
¡E A RAID 5 logical drive withstands single drive failure by reconstructing missing data from the data and parity from the remaining drives. 
   The assumption underlying this ability is that the data in the remaining drives is consistent. 
   This assumption becomes invalid if there is a power loss during write operation(s). 
   If there is a loss of power during a write operation, data inconsistencies may occur because data and parity writes may have completed only partially. 
   After subsequent reboot the logical drive has inconsistent data on that particular stripe. 
   If a drive were to fail at this point, missing data (for the inconsistent stripe alone) cannot be reconstructed from remaining drives. 
   To correct inconsistency, drivers starts back ground initialization (BGI) at reboot. 
   While BGI is in progress, the inconsistent stripe(s) are vulnerable to drive failure. 
   One way to avoid this window of vulnerability is to run check consistency on the logical drive using BIOS utility.
   Another way is to prevent an unplanned shutdown (e.g. using UPS).
¡E The LITE-ON SH S752K model CD/DVD ROM device does not respond to 0x55 & 0x51 MMC commands properly. 
   The device hangs when these commands are issued multiple times. 
   The driver resets the device when it hangs; but reset adversely affects DVD burning. This behavior can be consistently observed using K3B DVD burning software. 
   K3B aborts DVD writes when 0x55 is failed and device is reset.