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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">In order to officially release the OFA reference driver, there are some tests that need to be run.
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">I’m asking for volunteers for run the following tests:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">WHQL/WHCK Certification Tests (no submission to MS required… just need test results)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Normal Unit Testing Test Suite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">The only requirements for devices on which to run the above tests is that the NVMe SSD be 1.2 compliant. As additional info, here is a list of features that we’ve added since our last release. Please review and
sanity check my list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Recent patches include<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Performance improvement & robustness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">NVMe Spec rev 1.2 feature compliant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Supports MS Windows 10, 8.1, 7, Server 2012 R2, 2012 and 2008 R2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Supports both 32 & 64-bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">What is new since last release:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Namespace Management (Create, Delete, Attach, Detach)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">EOL Read Only Support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Win 8.1 Timers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Surprise Removal Support in IOCTL Path<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Disk Initialization Performance Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Storage Request Block Support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">StorPort Performance Options<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">StorPort DPC Redirection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Misc. Bug Fixes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">Security Send/Receive with Zero Data Length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#002060">SNTI updates for SCSI to NVMe Translation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thanks…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">NSG ISE Host Storage Software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Intel Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office: 480-554-2600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mobile: 480-399-0645<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A"><img border="0" width="91" height="36" style="width:.9479in;height:.375in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D20A87.8D795ED0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CB9B29.EA8D14F0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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