At the time of release the following drivers were included in the Kit:

Download drivers for Adaptec RAID 71605E ASR-71605E Single PCI-E x8-16-port SAS-SATA-RAID 0-1-1E-10-JBOD-Cache 256Mb Download drivers for Adaptec RAID 71685 ASR-71685 Single PCI-E x8-16-port int-8 ex SAS-SATA-RAID 0-1-1E-10-5-6-50-60-JBOD-Cache 1Gb. Description: Adaptec Event Monitor v1.06.21062 for use under 32 & 64-bit Versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2, and 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.10, and 6.4, Debian 7.0.

Description: AACRAID Driver v1.2.1-52033 for VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.0. This driver is VMware Certified for vSphere (ESXi) 5.5 and 6.0. Adaptec RAID 71605E Adaptec.

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials
• Microsoft Windows 8 Basic Edition x86
• Microsoft Windows 8 Basic Edition x64
• Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x86
• Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64
• Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x86
• Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition
• Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Edition
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, SP4
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• Debian Linux 8.1
• Debian Linux 6.0.4
• Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3
• Ubuntu Linux 14.04
• Ubuntu Linux 12.04.5
• Ubuntu Linux 12.04
• Ubuntu Linux 11.10
• Ubuntu Linux 11.04
• Ubuntu Linux 10.10
• Ubuntu Linux 10.04
• Fedora 22
• Fedora 16
• Fedora 15
• Fedora 14
• Oracle Solaris 11 Express (x86)
• Sun/Oracle Solaris 10 (x86)
• CentOS 6.2
• CentOS 5.8
• FreeBSD 9.0
• FreeBSD 8.2
• Citrix XenServer 6.5.1
• VMware ESXi Server 5.1
• VMware ESXi Server 5.0
• VMware ESX Server 4.1

Additional drivers listed below and any updates to the above drivers can be downloaded from our Support Site:

• Citrix XenServer 6.5
• Citrix XenServer 6.2
• Citrix XenServer 6.1
• CentOS 7.1
• CentOS 6.6
• CentOS 6.4
• CentOS 5.11
• CentOS 5.9
• Debian Linux 7.8
• Debian Linux 7.0
• Fedora 21
• Fedora 19
• Fedora 18
• Fedora 17
• FreeBSD 10.1
• FreeBSD 9.3
• FreeBSD 9.1
• FreeBSD 8.4
• Oracle Solaris 11.2 (no boot support)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
• Ubuntu Linux 14.10
• Ubuntu Linux 14.04
• VMware ESXi Server 6.0
• VMware ESXi Server 5.5
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows 8.1

Drivers listed below are included with the operating system:

• Fedora 21
• Fedora 19
• FreeBSD 10.1
• FreeBSD 10.0
• Microsoft Windows 10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
• Ubuntu Linux 15.04
• Ubuntu Linux 14.10
• Ubuntu Linux 14.04
• VMware ESXi Server 6.0
• VMware ESXi Server 5.5

Updated: April 6, 2018
Starting with firmware build 30862, Windows driver v7.4.0.30850 and Linux driver v1.2.1-40300, the Series 7 and 8 RAID controllers offer native 4K sector support.

Linux Driver Source 1.2.1-50667

For hard disk drives working in 4K native mode, there is no emulation layer in place, and the disk media directly exposes its 4KB physical sector size to the controller firmware and operating system. Readiness of the support for 4KB logical sectors within operating systems differs among their types, vendors and versions.
Note: only UEFI systems can boot from a 4K sector drive. The legacy Ctrl + A controller BIOS displays all 4K and 512 byte drives connected to the controller during POST and there is Ctrl + A support (like Format and Verify) for both 4K & 512 byte drives but INT 13 support for booting is available for 512 byte drives only.
Please see the following table for an excerpt of supported configurations:

Operating System	4K Boot Support (UEFI systems only)	Generic 4K Support
Windows 10	Yes	Yes
Windows 8.1	Yes	Yes
Windows 8 64-bit	Yes	Yes
Windows 8 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows 7 64-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows 7 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows Server 2016	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2012 R2	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2012	Yes	Yes
Windows SBS 2011, Standard and Essentials	Not supported	Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2	Not supported	Yes
RHEL 6.4 64-bit	Yes	Yes
RHEL 6.4 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
RHEL 6.3 64-bit	Yes	Yes
RHEL 6.3 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
SLES 11 SP3 64-bit	Yes	Yes
SLES 11 SP3 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit	Failed*	Yes
Ubuntu 12.04.2 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
CentOS 6.4 64-bit	Yes	Yes

* Failed because of an issue with Ubuntu partition editor. This issue will be fixed in a later version of Ubuntu.
Note:

Adaptec - Adaptec RAID 71605Q With MaxCache 3.0

Linux distributions based on kernel 2.6.34 or later will provide support for 4K sector drives. Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 support 4Kn drives for non-root ZFS file systems only. For information about other operating systems please contact the OS vendor.