: If you are not bound by hardware or regulatory constraints, migrate away from this driver. Replace the underlying RAID controller with a modern equivalent (e.g., Broadcom MegaRAID 9500 series) and use the latest storage drivers from your hypervisor vendor. If you must keep it, encapsulate the system in a virtual machine with direct device passthrough (VT-d/AMD-Vi) to limit damage from potential driver crashes. Need help identifying a legacy driver on your Windows system? Use the Sysinternals sigcheck tool to dump version resources and digital signature details for any disk-sm-*.sys file.
| Component | Supported Configuration | |-----------|------------------------| | | Windows Server 2012 R2 (build 9600), Windows 8.1 Enterprise, Windows 7 SP1 (with SHA-2 patches) | | Processors | Intel Xeon E5/E7 v3 (Haswell) or AMD Opteron 6300 series | | Disk Controllers | LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260/9271, Dell PERC H710/H810, IBM ServeRAID M5110 | | Storage Media | SAS 6Gb/s or 12Gb/s HDDs, early enterprise SATA SSDs (Intel DC S3500/S3700) | disk-sm-windows-x64-jun-2015-version-11.20.x5.10