RAID Driver and Firmware updates?

In my continuing "learing activities"
I found that when Vista SP1 installed the RAID Drivers were V6.xxxx from sometime back in 2007
I found V 8.7.0.1007  of the RAID drivers on the intel site.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2101&OSFullName=Windows+V...
After I installed them I did get a nice GUI manager program showing all the drives and staus and so on and
at boot up a item shows up on the task bar for a short time indicating RAID status... then the icon disappears again...Anyway...
On to my real question... Lenovo offically has the drivers at 7.6.xxx
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-69823
These would match my (as-delivered) RAID firmware level which is also at 7.6.xxx
I recall times when miss-matched firmware vs. driver levels can cause issues on IBM server machines.
I'm wondering if that is the case here, and if so I can not see a place to download the FIRMWARE upgrades....???
I was miss-matched before with s/w level 6.x and firmware 7.x now I'm still miss-matched...
Wondering if I should drop back to Lenovo V7.6 software drivers so that I AM matched up...
(This is still a "test" config so no harm done in any event ... I'm just playing....)
 Thanks,
Jim
Message Edited by jwooden on 01-16-2009 03:05 PM
(mod edit: fixed broken link)
Message Edited by erik on 01-16-2009 03:09 PM
Message Edited by jwooden on 01-16-2009 03:11 PM

A valid drivefrom an array IS recognized if plugged into a different port on the motherboard
a rebuild is automatically kicked off.
if the drive rebuilds when moved then the system is assuming a failure.   afaik, drives cannot move ports without the system assuming something has failed, even if the drive itself is healthy.
yes, it did kick off a rebuild, I was just a bit surprised that it recognized it as HD member of the array since somewhere in the docs I read that the SAME port must be used when replacing a drive  ... I had just "assumed" (yeah, I know about the "assume" word   ;-)  ....) that the manager was doing it's thing JUST based on port assignments --  I guess there is a RAID signature on the actual drive somewhere...
The SATA port numbers on the motherboard do NOT correspond to the numbers reported in the RAID manager s/w. Motherboard numbering starts @ 1 while RAID mgr starts at 0.
socket 0 is the FDD socket.   i believe the RAID manager starts the first drive of the first array at 0 regardless of which sockets the array populates.
 Hmmmmmmm that's not what I'm seeing .. I have a "regular" 34-pin cable connection on the MB for the FDD... which I am not using.. as I have the mult-card reader. I plugged my 2 optical drives into the two SATA ports on the front edge of the MB ( labeled #1 & #2) then plugged my two 1TB drives into MB ports 3 and 4 (which I have in a RAID1) and have the 250GB drive on MB port #5  with #6 being empty.
The RAID Mgr s/w reports that ports 0 & 1 are optical, ports 2 & 3 are used for the RAID1 port 4 is the 250Gb and 5 is unused. Not a big deal ... just not what I expected.  
Since there is no easy way to tell which drive in an array has failed (no blinking LEDs like on the big server boxes) one needs to be careful to swap the correct drive in the event of a failure....
that's a feature i'd like to see in future models.   some sort of visual (and audible, for that matter) indication of drive status using simple red and green LEDs would be great.
in my case, without the LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager software, i'd have no idea what any of my five SAS drives were doing.   i found it on LSI's site purely by dumb luck.   in the event of a drive failure, it's set up to show a visual warning on the screen, email my personal account, and send a message to my blackberry.   if something happens, i'll definitely know about it.
(edit: fixed formatting error)
Message Edited by erik on 01-17-2009 03:34 PM
Oh yeah... you'll know ... either that or you're on a south-pacific atoll and don't care  ;-)

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