Intel ® Rapid Storage Technology 11.5.0.1207

IIRC there were some problems with updating RSTe drivers (11.5) to newer versions but haven't heard of problems running 10.8 and updating. How did you install? Have you tried extracting the 11.2 drivers and just updating those through device manager? Or maybe try uninstalling the RST service and reboot before updating to a newer RST.
 
Don't worry about the RAID Option ROM. It is likely to be out of date and almost impossible to upgrade anyway, unless you mobo provider releases a BIOS with an update. All these people that try and slipstream a new OROM into the BIOS need to get out more...its pretty much pointless.

Anyway...do not worry about the OROM.

Once the OS loads it is all down to the driver you install within the RST installation, OROM no longer plays a part.

If you do need to manage your RAID outside of the OS...particularly if your creating a raided system disk, then the OROM provided, regardless of how old, will be fine.

Example for myself. I have an SSD as boot...they never die so I care not for RAID 1/5/10 and as for RAID 0 my SSD is fast enough. However, I have 2 RAID arrays (RAID 0 for a scratch area, and RAID 5 for backups). These have all been created on RST 10.x but guess what....my OROM is 8.0.0.somthing....

BTW...I think RST 9.6 supports TRIM on SSDs...so thats another option. Intel drivers are not the best :-(
 
thenewoc said:
Haha those be my ramblings on msi, no probs with 11.2.0.1006 that I've noticed so far. The xtremesystems thread is a good read to understand the prerequisites.
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Hehe, I was just checking the drivers on the MSI and Gigabyte websites and they still have 11.5.0.1207.

I haven't checked other manufacturer websites, but you would think they would know about this, therefore update their download links to a previous driver.
 
Yeah there seems to be a disconnect between the msi forum and msi towers even though the forum mod says it was taken down it wasn't. Same goes for the pointless network genie utility for a realtek chip which isn't on the z77a-gd65, told msi tech support, still fell on deaf ears. Bit like leading a horse to water, you cant make it drink. Msi had an older version of rst prior to changing it to 11.5 anyway so I downloaded 11.2 direct from Intel.
 
Anyone out there using Windows 8, if so which RST driver is used for that?

I'm guessing 11.2.0.1006 is fine? It's just that on the Intel download site it doesn't state Windows 8 operating system.
 
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