The following information lists the new features introduced with the Intel® VROC 7.6 release for Windows*. To learn about the latest updates of Intel® VROC for Windows*, refer to the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Release Notes for Windows*.

Intel® VROC Pre-OS Environment RAID Volume Failure Recovery

Intel® VROC 7.6 introduces a new feature in the Intel® VROC HII page that will allow the user to attempt to recover from a failed RAID volume. When a failed RAID volume is encountered during boot, the option is made available in the Intel® VROC HII page for which the user can select. This is a multi-step process.

The first step is to select the RAID volume in failed state and then select the option to force it to a degraded state. This will expose the next option to specify the drive to enable this action.

Once the RAID volume is changed to degraded state, the standard RAID volume recovery process initiates the rebuilding process.

Intel makes no guarantee of successful recovery from a failed state using this option. This must be treated as a last chance effort and there is no guarantee that there will no data loss. Intel always recommends recovering a failed RAID volume by recreating the RAID volume from scratch and restoring the data from the latest platform image backup.

Intel® VROC (SATA RAID) UEFI Support for EFI_ATA_PASSTHRU

Intel® VROC 7.6 (SATA RAID) introduces support for the EFI_ATA_PASS_THRU protocol by the Intel® VROC (SATA RAID) UEFI driver. The following specific options are supported in Intel® VROC 7.6:

• PassThru;
  • IDENTIFY
  • ATA_READ_LOG_EXT
• GetNextPort;
• GetNextDevice;
• BuildDevicePath;
• GetDevice;