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Intel® Solid-State Drive 910 Series Device Drivers for Microsoft Windows* 7 and Windows Server* 2008 R2
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This file describes how to install and use the Intel® SSD 910 Series device drivers for the Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 operating systems. It is divided into the following sections:   

Introduction for Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 
     Features
         Description

Installing the Driver(s)
     New System Installation
          DVD-ROM Installation
     Existing System Installation 
    
     Troubleshooting 


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1.0 Introduction for Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2  

Windows 7 is the client release of the operating system; Windows Server 2008 R2 is the server version of this release. Throughout this document, the release will be referred to as Windows 7 (instructions will apply to Windows Server 2008 R2 as well).

Windows 7 is an operating system designed to run on Intel architecture (x86,32-bit), Itanium Processor Family (IA64), and Extended-64 (x64,AMD64/EM64T)processors using current technology. It provides a graphical user interface environment incorporating many high-level features. Note that Windows 7 is supported only on 32-bit and x64 processors, and Server 2008 R2 is supported only on x64 and IA64 processors. Refer to the Microsoft Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 documentation for details.

An I/O manager handles I/O requests in Windows 7. To address a peripheral, the I/O manager goes through the appropriate drivers. Windows 7 provides class drivers for hard disk, optical, CD-ROM, printer, and scanner peripherals. Other class drivers, provided by peripheral manufacturers, may be added to support new devices. Tape device support is built into the operating system itself and does not require a class driver. 

Microsoft provides the port driver and Intel provides the miniport driver.  This driver completes the path to the Intel® SSD 910 Series controller with an optional SAS BIOS.

This miniport driver uses the Microsoft StorPort port driver (rather than
the Microsoft ScsiPort driver in earlier versions of Windows). The StorPort driver has architectural enhancements that provide performance improvements on large server systems with many storage adapters.  This miniport driver is designed to take advantage of these enhancements for improved performance.

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1.1 Features 

The Intel® SSD 910 Series miniport driver supports these features:

o  Supports PCI-Express* (PCIe*) bus protocols
o  Supports MSI/MSI-X
o  Supports multiple Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) 
o  Supports Scatter-Gather 
o  Supports SCSI pass-through functionality 
o  Auto request sense 
o  Maximum block size support: 1 MB (32-bit), 2 MB (64-bit)
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1.3 Description

The Intel® SSD 910 Series driver meets the Microsoft specification for miniport drivers. The driver supports only Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 and all subsequent Service Packs. 


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2.0 Installing the Intel® SSD 910 Series Driver


This procedure installs the Intel SSD 910 Series driver onto a new or existing Windows 7 system. Depending upon the media used to distribute Intel SSD 910 Series drivers (web or CD-ROM), you will create a driver install package on some type of accessible media.  This can be a diskette, CD or DVD, or USB flash drive.  The driver install package can also be placed on a hard disk for driver upgrades only.

Copy the files listed in this section to a folder on the desired media as shown below. You will use this driver package during the installation process.

        lsi_sas2.inf
        lsi_sas2.sys
        svlhx64.cat (for x64)
        
Note: Windows drivers must be either Release signed or WHQL logo       signed (by Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs) to be installed on       Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2.  Any modifications to any of the above files       will invalidate the digital signature of the package and the OS will       not install the driver.

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2.1 New System Installation 

This procedure installs the Intel® SSD 910 Series driver onto a Windows 7 system. Use this procedure when installing Windows 7 onto an unused drive. Windows 7 automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to the driver storage area.

Note: Windows 7 contains a bundled driver. This driver will support a       fresh installation of Windows 7. If a newer driver is to be installed,       the fresh installation can be done with the bundled driver and the driver       can be upgraded after installation has completed as described in Section       2.2. Or, the newer driver can be used for fresh installation as      described in the following section.

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2.1.1 DVD-ROM Installation

1. Start the Windows 7 installation by booting from the Windows 7 DVD-ROM: 
   The system BIOS must support booting from a DVD-ROM.BIOS settings may need to be changed to allow DVD-ROM booting.
   
2. Proceed with the installation of Windows 7. When the screen displays
   "Where do you want to install Windows?", click on the Load Driver icon.    

3. Be sure the media with the Intel SSD 910 Series driver install package for the system processor architecture is inserted in the system.  Click the Browse button, browse to the location of the driver package, then click OK.
   
Note: Current Windows 7 drivers can be downloaded from the Intel web site at: http://www.intel.com/support/go/ssd910drivers/
         
After you are connected to this web site, select the product         category, family, and the appropriate product. Select the desired          Windows 7 driver to begin the download.
   
4. The LSI adapter driver name will be displayed, click Next.

Note: When using a Release Signed driver, a Windows Security dialog box may appear, indicating that the publisher of this software is LSI Corporation. Click the Install button to continue installation of the driver.

A second Windows Security dialog box may appear, indicating that an Intel device is being installed. Click the Install button to continue installation of the driver.
   
5. Follow the Microsoft Windows 7 installation procedure.

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2.2 Existing System Installation

This procedure installs or upgrades the Intel® SSD 910 Series driver onto an existing Windows 7 system.

NOTE: When the Update Driver Software Wizard appears at boot, continue at step 8 below.

1. Boot Windows 7 and logon as a user that has Administrator privileges.

2. Click on the Start button, then right-click on the Computer entry in
   the menu.

3. Click on the Properties selection.

4. In the Tasks column on the left side of the Screen, click Device Manager.

   Note: A User Account Control dialog box may be displayed, asking for
         permission to continue.  Click Continue.
         

5. Click the "+" to the left of the Storage Controllers line.  Find the adapter desired for the driver upgrade and double-click the entry. Click on the Driver tab.

6. Information on the currently installed driver is displayed, and additional driver details can be viewed by clicking the "Driver Details" button.

7. Click on the "Update Driver" button to update the existing driver. The Update Driver Software wizard begins.
   
8. Click on the "Browse my computer for driver software" selection.

9. Click on the "Let me pick..." selection at the bottom of the window.

10. Click on the "Have Disk" button and type the path to the driver, or click on the Browse button. Select the location for the driver package. After the path to the driver has been established, click the OK button.

11. Select the driver from the list and click on the Next button.

    Note: When using a Release Signed driver, a Windows Security dialog box may appear, indicating that the publisher of this software is LSI Corporation. Click the Install button to continue installation of the driver.
          
12. The system will load the driver from the Windows 7 driver package media.
    A message box may display indicating that the target (existing) driver is newer than the source (upgrade) driver.

14. Click No to cancel the driver upgrade at this point.

      or

    Click Yes to continue the installation.

    The system copies the driver to the system disk. 

15. Click on the Close button to complete the driver upgrade.

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3.0 Troubleshooting 

The Intel® SSD 910 Series driver will log error messages to the system error log. For these errors, the system errorlog EventID will be 11, and the specific error code values will be displayed at offset 0x10. Data should be displayed in words.


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