Intel Rapid Storage (make sure you have newest BIOS 0902 or l8r)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipse...SUT cannot boot to degraded bootable RAID5 volume after one HDD removed
>4TB Disk Data Loss Exposure
RST Caching fails to resume from S4 after entering OROM>Acceleration Options and sometimes causes BSOD 0050 & 0051
RAID 1 degradation and drives not always being detected by the Intel® RAID Option ROM
When 2 RAID Volumes are present on a system and left idle for a long time will cause IO fail
also there are Intel Ethernet drivers for GENE-Z, but I don't think you need them.
http://www.intel.com/products/ethernet/resource.htm#s1=Gigabit%20Ethernet&s2=82579LM/V&s3=all