ASRock 990FX and RAID mode

[VirtualLarry]

Having some issues. When I changed my AMD SATA controller to RAID mode, my SSD that is in the first port does not show up under boot options. I also have no idea what keystroke goes into the RAID BIOS. (Do not have the 1TB Seagate HDDs plugged in yet. Just want to install Win7 first.)

I have my DVD drive plugged into the Marvell ports, and I have the Marvell ports set to AHCI and bootable YES.

Does Marvell bootable YES, disable the AMD RAID controller somehow?

Edit: My boot drives do come up, when I set "RAID 3TB+ Unlocker" from "UEFI" to "Legacy ROM".

I am worried though, because I plan on using several 1TB drives in RAID, resulting in a 3TB+ RAID volume. Perhaps that doesn't matter? Perhaps that UEFI setting is for utilizing drives that are individually over 2TB?

But if so, then why doesn't anything show up bootable? It's like, that option should have it's own optional RAID BIOS, but it's missing, or something.

Edit: My bad, it's the ASRock 990FX Extreme4.

 

[nenforcer]

Is this the ASSRock Extreme 3, 4 or Fatal1ty Professional board?

It is quite likely that setting the Marvell 3rd party controller to bootable overrides the AMD SATA controller.

I would plug both your DVD drive AND the SSD drive into the Marvell controller under AHCI mode as bootable. You were planning on using the SSD at the OS drive, correct?

Then you can just install the AMD RAID drivers upon installing Windows. And yes, I would leave "RAID 3TB+ Unlocker" set to Legacy ROM since you only need a UEFI BIOS for drives individually greater than 2TB.