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1 AMD RAID Installation Guide 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide ...

10 C. Set the “Onboard RAID 3TB+ Unlocker” option to <UEFI Mode For GPT Partition >. D. Click <F10> to save and exit. E. Click <F1

11 G. When the following screen appears, enter “rcadm -M -id -d<list>” and click <Enter> to initialize disk. H. Enter “rcadm -C <ra

12 1.4 Create Disk Array Power on your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the disk drives installed, the AMD onboard RAID Option

13 Press 2 on the Main Menu screen to display the Define LD Menu. Press <Ctrl+C> to create a RAID array. Press the arrow keys to highlight a

14 Press <Ctrl-Y> to input the LD Name. Choose one of the following actions: 1. Use the full capacity of the disk drives for a single log

15 1. Enter the desired capacity for the first logical drive and press <Enter>. The Define LD Menu displays again. 2. Press <Esc> to

16 Use the arrow keys to select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array and press <Ins>. The selected hard drives will be shown in

17 Use the up/down arrow key or <PAGEUP> /<PAGEDOWN> to adjust the size and press <Enter>. Select a caching mode and press <

18 When completed, you will see the new array on the main screen. Press <Esc> to exit the RAID BIOS utility. 2. AMD Windows RAID Installati

19 2.3 Installing RAIDXpert Follow these steps to install RAIDXpert on your Windows-based PC or Server. 1. Boot the PC or server, launch Windows

2 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using the onboard F

20 9. When the Choose Install Folder screen appears, make your selection of a folder for the RAIDXpert applications you are installing. For exa

21 11. When the Ready to Install screen appears, click the Install button to continue. 12. When the Install Complete screen appears, click the

22 2.5 Regular Connection RAIDXpert uses an HTTP connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .http:// • Enter the Host PC’s IP address . . . .

23 2.7 Creating a New Logical Drive A logical drive is a collection of physical drives in a RAID. To create a new logical drive: 1. Click Logic

24 7. Click the physical drives to select them. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 8. Click the Next button.

25 14. Click the Finish button. If there are physical drives available, the Select RAID Level screen appears again, where you can create an addit

26 browser opens and displays a “no connection to the Internet is currently available” message. 2. Click the Work Offline button. 3. In the RAIDXpe

27 2.10 Using RAIDXpert2 to Create RAID Array in Windows (for AMD A88X/A78 Chipset) 1. When you install the all-in-one driver to your system from

28 3. When the login screen appears, type “admin” in the Login ID field. Type “admin” again in the Password field. 4. Create new username and pass

29 5. Be sure to delete the existing disk arrays before creating a new array. 6. To create array, Click on Array → Create.

3 RAID 5 (Block Striping with Distributed Parity) RAID 5 stripes data and distributes parity information across the physical drives along with the

30 7. Select the disks to be included in the RAID array. Select Array Type Enter Array Name & Array Size. Then click Create to create a RAID

31 9. In Disk Management, create partition and initialize the disk as GPT.

32 Appendix –rcadm.efi information for AMD A88X/A78 rcadm -? -?, --help Displays all primary rcadm commands, or if used after an option, displa

33 -ras, --remove-all-spares Removes any spares from an array. -ags, --add-global-spare Adds a disk as a global spare. No space is reserved on

34 Specifies if background array scan scanning is on or off. -sp, --smart-poll Turns SMART polling on or off for the specified drive(s). -t,

35 <rw> for read and write-back cache <w> for write-back cache <nc> for no cache Examp

36 -q [-a <list>] [-ct <list>] [-d <list>] [-v] Examples: rcadm --manage --query --array 1 --disk --verbose rc

37 Examples: rcadm --manage --unlink --array 2 rcadm -M -ul -a 5 rcadm -C CREATE Long form: rcadm --create <raid_type> --disk &

38 Prints the maximum possible size for an array without actually creating an array. -n, --name Identifies an array with a user-sup

39 rcadm -D DELETE Long form: --delete --array <list> [--no-ask] Short form: -D -a <list&g

4 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1. Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended

5 1.3 Installing Windows® OS With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / 8 / 8 64-bit / 8.1 / 8.1 64-bit on a RAID disk com

6 Way 2: (for Windows® 8 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit only) Create and configure the RAID disk in GPT mode to support RAID disk size over 2TB and speed up sys

7 I. Enter <Logical Drive Main Menu> to set up RAID Drive. J. Choose <Logical Drive Create Menu> to create a RAID Drive. K. Cho

8 N. Click <Esc> to return to the previous page and choose <Logical Drive List Menu> to check the logical drive list. Press <F10>

9 1.3.2 RAID Functions for AMD A88X, A78 chipsets Way 1: Use legacy RAID ROM to create and configure the RAID disk. The RAID disk will be create