Power manager optical drive power off

I enjoy the feature of automatically powering off the optical drive in power manager. My issue is after reformatting my T530 the option is there until I do an update using the Lenovo ThinkVantage System Update. One of the updates seems to remove the feature from the power manager. Does anyone else experience this and if so, do you know which update does it?
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mobal wrote:
What is the solution? How to revert to a pervious Intel Rapid Storage driver?
Yes. You need to install the 11.2.0.1006 version of the Intel Rapid Storage driver. Here's the manual install process from the README file:
Installing files
12. Select Start.
13. [Windows 7/Vista]
Right-click Computer, and then select Properties. At the left pane, select
Device Manager.
[Windows XP]
Right-click My Computer, select Properties, select the Hardware tab, and
then select Device Manager.
14. Double-click/double-tap the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers or Storage
controllers category.
15. Double-click/double-tap either of the following devices;
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller
Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller
16. Select the Driver tab, then select Update Driver Software...
17. Select Browse my computer for driver software.
18. Select Browse..., then point to driver location specified in step 9.
19. Make sure the checkbox next to "Include subfolders" is checked and select
Next.
20. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation and restart
the computer.
Delete the file saved in the step 4.

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