RAID Support

[legendarypoet]

Everything I've read (including the manual) says this board supports RAID.
I cannot find a utility on the driver flash drive & AMD's RAIDXpert says there are no eligible components installed.
In the BOIS the utility that says it creates RAIDs just tried to apply an overclock.

Anyone know if RAID is actually supported
Thanks.

[Zarrkuâ__]

No, Windows 10 is not yet installed. I am trying to load the raid drivers so that the Raid 0 array appears so that I can install Windows 10. The raid drivers must be loaded to be able to detect the raid 0 array.

[derrickmehaffy]

Zarrkuâ„¢ wrote:
No, Windows 10 is not yet installed. I am trying to load the raid drivers so that the Raid 0 array appears so that I can install Windows 10. The raid drivers must be loaded to be able to detect the raid 0 array.

Attach a screenshot of your raid config menu, you may need to blow out the raid you have setup and reconfigure. I haven't looked at the menu myself yet but in most raid setups when you create you should have an advanced option to initialize the drives when it creates the raid.

[Zarrkuâ__]

[Ljugtomten]

I have a feeling the option to initialize the virtual disk which prepares the physical disks are in "Array Management" or the other option there..
Never fiddled with RAID on this board, only on Dell servers with dedicated RAID card where you assign physical disks to a virtual disk and then initialize the virtual one.

[Zarrkuâ__]

No. There is no options in Array Management to Initialize the drives. There is an option to initialize the drives on the other menu. But you cant use that option once you make an array. I wish you could. Asus Technical support response was to use AHCI instead of raid. Which I told them was ridiculous. I didn't buy a gaming machine to run non raided disks.

Ljugtomten wrote:
I have a feeling the option to initialize the virtual disk which prepares the physical disks are in "Array Management" or the other option there..
Never fiddled with RAID on this board, only on Dell servers with dedicated RAID card where you assign physical disks to a virtual disk and then initialize the virtual one.

[derrickmehaffy]

Zarrkuâ„¢ wrote:
No. There is no options in Array Management to Initialize the drives. There is an option to initialize the drives on the other menu. But you cant use that option once you make an array. I wish you could. Asus Technical support response was to use AHCI instead of raid. Which I told them was ridiculous. I didn't buy a gaming machine to run non raided disks.

Just to confirm when your attempting to install windows and you point to a device for the raid drivers you have the usb key that came with the board and your point to the root of it? (I believe its been a while that I have had to do it, you also select all sub files/folders ect)

I know it can be done, given I used an nvme drive to setup the raid (booted into windows and followed the steps on the 1st page) then rebooted and installed windows on top of that.

Have you tried booting into a live version of linux and confirming it can see the virtual disk?

Also Asus support hasn't been very smart in regards to this, I've had to have my case escalated about 6 times now and get different responses from the general stupid script response to a "uhhhhhh. I don't know"

The last email response being (and I specified this was for 4x SATA SSDs)

Hello Derrick Mehaffy,

Thank you for your response.

Thank you for your patience, after making checks, we're seeing where NVME RAID does not support with this platform due to platform limitation and EZ Wizard is disabled in the BIOS. We apologize for the troubles caused by this.

Please make note of your case number for future reference: NULL

Regards,


ASUS Technical Support

[Ljugtomten]

derrickmehaffy wrote:
Just to confirm when your attempting to install windows and you point to a device for the raid drivers you have the usb key that came with the board and your point to the root of it? (I believe its been a while that I have had to do it, you also select all sub files/folders ect)

I know it can be done, given I used an nvme drive to setup the raid (booted into windows and followed the steps on the 1st page) then rebooted and installed windows on top of that.

Have you tried booting into a live version of linux and confirming it can see the virtual disk?

Also Asus support hasn't been very smart in regards to this, I've had to have my case escalated about 6 times now and get different responses from the general stupid script response to a "uhhhhhh. I don't know"

The last email response being (and I specified this was for 4x SATA SSDs)

I don't think Zarrkuâ„¢ is at a point where OS can be installed on the drive no matter the amount of drivers.
The step to initialize the created virtual disk seems to be missing from UEFI, a step that you performed from the RAID tools within Windows.

See step #2 in the guide for Dell PERC H730P that I mentioned I am familiar with:

http://www.dell.com/support/article/se/sv/sebsdt1/sln147387/how-to-initialize-and-create-a-virtual-d...

[derrickmehaffy]

Ljugtomten wrote:
I don't think Zarrkuâ„¢ is at a point where OS can be installed on the drive no matter the amount of drivers.
The step to initialize the created virtual disk seems to be missing from UEFI, a step that you performed from the RAID tools within Windows.

See step #2 in the guide for Dell PERC H730P that I mentioned I am familiar with:

http://www.dell.com/support/article/se/sv/sebsdt1/sln147387/how-to-initialize-and-create-a-virtual-d...

Aye yeah I do work with the Dell PERCs often, I also am thinking this is the problem, hence why I was wondering if he can boot a live linux and initialize from there instead. Generally on these "fake raid" motherboards the initialization is done automatically once the array has been created but as you also have guessed, it seems to be missing.

[CMDRSweeper]

Well it does seem like we are in a pickle here then...
Non bootable RAID arrays is close to a deal breaker on the AMD platform if you are forced to run "Bugdows"
So it seems like I will need to plan for that GPU purchase and run a proper OS under the hood that can handle good software RAID, and throw Win 10 into a virtual machine.