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I re-installed Win7 HP 64-bit on my AMD rig.
It has a Thuban 1045T CPU at 2.7Ghz / ASrock 990FX Extreme4 mobo / 4x4GB GSkill DDR3-1600.
It has an AMD southbridge that supports RAID-5 and six SATA6G ports, along with two Marvell ports.
I have the AMD ports configured for RAID, with "Legacy ROM" selected in the UEFI. Without that selected, I don't get the BIOS ROMs for the Marvell and the AMD RAID controller, and cannot boot my system.
I have a DVD drive connected to one of the marvell ports, the other is connected to my SATA HDD dock on top of my Rosewill Blackhawk case.
I have a 90GB OCZ Agility 2 SSD connected to AMD port 0. Ports 1-5 have five Seagate 7200.12 1TB HDDs.
I went into the RAID BIOS, configured a RAID-5 array with all five HDDs, and gave it a name, and set the capacity at 2000GB. Which used 500GB on each of the five drives. I then repeated the steps, and created a second RAID-5 array, with the remaining 500GB of each of the five drives.
So basically, I get two 2TB RAID logical volumes in the OS, which I can then use MBR partitions to partition the drives.
When I installed Win7, I used the AMD RAID driver on a USB flash drive.
Is there any sort of RAID management GUI available for AMD RAID? Because I didn't see any sort of RAID utility download on my mobo's download pages.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX Extreme4/
It has a Thuban 1045T CPU at 2.7Ghz / ASrock 990FX Extreme4 mobo / 4x4GB GSkill DDR3-1600.
It has an AMD southbridge that supports RAID-5 and six SATA6G ports, along with two Marvell ports.
I have the AMD ports configured for RAID, with "Legacy ROM" selected in the UEFI. Without that selected, I don't get the BIOS ROMs for the Marvell and the AMD RAID controller, and cannot boot my system.
I have a DVD drive connected to one of the marvell ports, the other is connected to my SATA HDD dock on top of my Rosewill Blackhawk case.
I have a 90GB OCZ Agility 2 SSD connected to AMD port 0. Ports 1-5 have five Seagate 7200.12 1TB HDDs.
I went into the RAID BIOS, configured a RAID-5 array with all five HDDs, and gave it a name, and set the capacity at 2000GB. Which used 500GB on each of the five drives. I then repeated the steps, and created a second RAID-5 array, with the remaining 500GB of each of the five drives.
So basically, I get two 2TB RAID logical volumes in the OS, which I can then use MBR partitions to partition the drives.
When I installed Win7, I used the AMD RAID driver on a USB flash drive.
Is there any sort of RAID management GUI available for AMD RAID? Because I didn't see any sort of RAID utility download on my mobo's download pages.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX Extreme4/
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