Intel® Solid State Drive Datacenter PCIe* Microsoft*
Windows* Driver
Release Notes
July 2019
Software Version 4.3.0.1006
Document Number: 331995-006US
Intel® Solid-State Drive PCIe* Driver
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Driver Revision History
Document
Date Driver Version Description
Version
July 018 4.3.0.1006
Updated Certification.
New for this release:
Resolved possible BSOD when issuing a Query Property
temperature request
Improved hot plug handling
Improved sequential read/write performance with large
block sizes
April 016 4.3.0.1006
Known issues:
Possible BSOD during System Sleep and Hibernate –
currently suspected to be caused by a device/PCI error. No
workaround at this time.
Possible BSOD during System Sleep and Hibernate with
multiple namespaces present
New for this release:
Resolved issues with hangs seen with third-party tools that
monitor system status via S.M.A.R.T. interface
Improved SCSI to NVMe command translation
November 015 4.2.0.1002
Added support for Windows Server 2019
Known issues:
Possible BSOD when issuing a Query Property temperature
request.
New for this release:
DLL injection vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00154) was fixed with
this release
July 014 4.0.0.1007 For more information on INTEL-SA-00154, please visit the
following link -
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-
center/advisory/intel-sa-00154.html
New for this release:
Support for public Windows IOCTLs introduced in Windows
10
February 013 4.0.0.1007
Support for features and functionality defined in the NVMe
1.3 specification
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Date Driver Version Description
Version
New for this release:
December 012 3.2.0.1002 Support for Intel Optane DC P4800X Series
New for this release:
Fixed BSOD/enumeration issue during hot plug
October 011 3.1.0.1021
Fixed BSOD during Windows 7 OS installation
New for this release:
Support for additional P4600 Intel Datacenter SSD Series
skus, not currently supported in prior driver release
August 010 3.1.0.1009
Updates to SCSI translation for commands including Mode
Select, Read Capacity, Security IN, and EUI64
New for this release:
Support for P4500 and P4600 Intel Datacenter SSD Series
Hardened Driver Security
May 009 3.0.0.1013
Updated to NVMe Spec 1.2c
Added support for Get/Set Feature Payloads when using
vendor unique feature IDs
Added support for the Storage Firmware Update IOCTL
The following was fixed in this release:
Unified driver build for P3520 & other Intel Datacenter SSD
Series
NVMe driver no longer installs over the RSTe driver
Adding support for the Windows 10 FW Update IOCTL
November 008 1.8.0.1011
Fixed Yellow Bang after surprise hot-plug that occurs in
some cases
Fixed BSOD during queue full condition with I/O
Fixed BSOD during S3 resume that occurs in some cases
Fixed BSOD during device power down that occurs in some
cases on Windows 7
1.6.0.1001_x32-
x64_P3520_only Added support for P3520 device
August 2016 007
1.7.0.1002
No support for P3520 device
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Date Driver Version Description
Version
The following was fixed in this release:
July 2016 1.7.0.1002 BSOD during continuous reboot testing
NVMe DVL errors blocking Windows Server 2016
006 Certification
New for this release:
June 2016 1.6.0.1001
P3520 Dev ID and string recognition added
New for this release:
Set SCSI Mode Sense FUA bit as supported
April 2016 005 1.5.0.1002
Minor performance improvement
Implement SCSI Verify translation to NVMe*
New for this release:
Windows 10 Certification
Single installer for both x32 and x64 based Operating
Systems
September The following was fixed in this release:
004 1.3.0.1007
2015
After Uninstall device shows an “unknown device,” it now
reports as PCIe* device.
BSOD when installed on systems with 0x120 logical Cores
Installer using silent install does not copy the license.
The following was fixed in this release:
Disable of NVMe Controller takes too long after S3+S4.
WHCK Trim Performance Test executable encounters a
June 2015 003 1.2.0.1002
divide-by-zero error and fails to execute.
WHCK Rotational Rate Test Fails, Reporting 0 RPM
Update Windows Driver BusType to NVMe
The following was fixed in this release:
0x9F BSOD during S3/S4 testing
BSOD due to low System Memory under 32bit
February
002 1.1.0.1004
2015 Drive does not translate some SCSI commands – READ
CAPACITY, REQUEST SENSE and WRITE(6)
Windows Driver INF references Windows XP, there is no
driver support and reference was removed
September
001 1.0.0.1023 Initial release version
2014
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